die prefrences..

Rant on:

I have found that lee dies work for me in the following applications..
Pistol,rifle charging die, universal decapping die..

Will work but not impressed in rifle size dies,
No joy in a seating die in 222 with a 50 gr vmax..

Yes I know they are cheap..
And "ya pays your money and takes your chances"

But eventually I'll go redding or rcbs.
And yes a decent seating stem may solve the issue..
But I'm a bit put off thinking I had tools to do a job and finding they would not work..

I'm still happy with the other lee stuff I have, press,auto disk, turrets, funnel, auto prime, and pistol dies

But my experience with the rifle dies is right there with their saftey scale.

RANT OFF:

Lees solution..
http://leeprecision.net/support/inde...t-seating-plug

When it comes to dies... for me it's RCBS and/or Hornady.

RCBS is good stuff, my favorite so far.

All my dies are Lee, never had a problem seating anything.

I have Dillon and RCBS but prefer Forster bench rest dies.

The Forster seating die is more accurate .

Radio communication sent to the mother ship....
Known issue....
They are sending a seating stem for a 22 hornet. Techdude dave says it will cure the issue with the v max.

Good customer service. But we will see how it plays out.

I still have my eye on the redding and rcbs sets though.

I have RCBS,Hornaday,and Lee,have a set of lyman that I have had for 50yrs I use most of them every year.I personaly like to neck size for bolt rifles,so I have both full length and neck sizing dies.

I used to load everything with rcbs... .222, .30-30, .38/.357... got rid of all of those dies a few years back given that it had been decades since I owned a gun in those calibers. I still load 8x57 with rcbs. I just purchased my first set of Lee in .30-06, but haven't used it yet (for my son's nifty Savage 110). Looking forward to trying them out. Was considering Lee for 9mm & 7.62x39, too.

I have not had a problem with lee dies I have them in .44 mag,45 acp,neck dies 2506,270,7mm08,Have fl dies in rcbs 308,223,3006,270 ,357mag no problems

Dillon, Lee, and RCBS here.

I can easily agree that the RCBS dies are the most precise.

But I can get .002 runout on my .308 match ammo reloads using Lee's dies so I can't complain. I've also had some great customer service experiences with them.

RCBS? Exceptional all the way around. Let me give you an example that arrived in the mail today:

"Someone" tried to trim a friggin .30 caliber steel case in our 20 year old RCBS trim-pro case trimmer. It ruined the cutter head.
"Someone" worked the handle in the 25+ year old rockchucker so hard it came out of the toggle block taking several threads with it.


I called RCBS and told them EXACTLY what I just typed and that I would like to pay for the replacement parts if they were still available with my debit card.

The guy on the other end of the phone line said: "Those are warranty covered failures. I'll get the parts out to you today if you will give me your shipping address."