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Hornady New Dimension Dies ???

freddbear4freddbear4 Member Posts: 154 ✭✭
edited January 2008 in Ask the Experts
My friend wants to get into reloading and asked me for advice. I own Redding and RCBS dies but have read the literature about Hornady. I like the idea of a seating sleeve that centers the bullet and a micro adjust seating stem as an accessory. Any opinions, experiences, or recommendations would be appreciated.
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  • sandwarriorsandwarrior Member Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    freddbear,


    I have three and I like them. Big easy seater to read. The primer pins though are friction held. I understand the newer ones are threaded as well.

    The micro adjust is a function of any threaded bullet seater. It's just that it's marked on some. If he wants to stick with RCBS or Redding because you have them and trust them, it's just a matter of finding the pitch of the thread and that is the distance for each revolution of the seating stem. Divide that by however much you turn the stem i.e. divide by 4 for every 90 deg. you turn the stem.
    For instance I've got an 18 TPI thread on one of my bullet seaters. Each turn is .0555" or .056" rounded. Each 90 deg. or 1/4 turn then is .014 and each 1/8th turn/45 deg. is .007" split that and it's .0035"
    I usually scribe one line on my stems so that I have a reference from where I started.
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  • RCrosbyRCrosby Member Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've replaced most of my RCBS with HOrnady, though the Reddings sure are pretty!
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  • NwcidNwcid Member Posts: 10,674 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have not used any for rifle yet, but that is all I will buy for my pistols. I have 4 pistol calibers now. I even replaced a set of RCBS carbide dies that had only done 1K with a set of the Hornady.
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  • 5mmgunguy5mmgunguy Member Posts: 3,092 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Hornady dies are excellent. Personally I like Redding the best...but RCBS and Hornady are very good too. And for the money you can't beat Lee. Pick what you like.
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  • HandgunHTR52HandgunHTR52 Member Posts: 2,735
    edited November -1
    I use Hornady Dies for all of my rifle rounds. I really like them. My only complaint with Hornady's is that the expander spindle on all of mine are held in place via friction. If I forget to lube the inside of the neck, they sometimes move, which is a PITA.
    BUT, Hornady listened to their customers and have just come out with the Zip Spindle dies. The spindle on those are threaded so they won't slip anymore. Therefore, IMHO, Hornday's are the best dies for the money on the market today.
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    the sliding bullet seater plug is head and shoulders above the standard die. They do seat bullets very straight from what I have witnessed with these dies.
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  • dfletcherdfletcher Member Posts: 8,178 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I really like their neck sizer dies - that tapered and very smooth sizing button just glides through the ncase neck, love it and I buy them as a separate item.

    But, I've had nothing but problems with their f/l die sets. The floating seater on my 405 Win kept getting stuck on the down stroke, the little wire that keeps everything in on another set was too long, my 7 Rem Mag had a .289 dia sizing button and my 458 Win Mag had a .454 sizing button.

    When contacted Hornady took care of the problems with new items, but I'm done with their die sets.
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