Hornady dies

chefpierre

chefpierre

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I just bought my first set of hornady dies full length in 22-250. I use mostly rcbs, and redding. I prefer redding. I just did the initial set up and these dies are a little different than the other dies. What type of experiences/opinions does everyone else have with the hornady dies?

Thanks El Chefo
 
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I have 2 sets of Hornady dies, 20VT which not everyone makes and if they do like redding does, they break it in you for them. I gave 59 bucks for the Hornadys. Same for my 20Tac dies, 69 bucks. I think the over all quality of the dies is good. I do like the seater die. I would buy them before RCBS but leave them both on the shelf if there was a set of Reddings available, in standard cartridges of course.
 
Just purchased my second set.
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I’ve been using Hornady dies for 25 years and I’ve never used anything else so I can’t comment on them being different to set up than other dies. I just bought some Hornady 264 win mag dies on Auctionarms so I’ll be loading for that gun now. Key
 
I'm another Hornady fan. I had my first set of dies for my 25-204 made by them, great people to work with. I really like their expander ball I can take 204 to .25 in one pass with almost no effort and everthing turns out nice and even. I tried others and needed to go to .24 befor finishing at .25.

Their seater die with the sliding sleave is great no more cocked bullets or pinched fingers trying to get little 35gr bullets in the 218 Bee. There seater is even better with flat base bullets getting them seated as the sleave slides down over the bullet and neck holding everything in alignment as the bullet gets seated.

I've used alot of dies over the years, was pawing through a box of dies to get rid of as I don't think I'll ever have dies in those callibers again and found Bonanza, Texan, RCBS, Lyman, Herters, C&H, Lee and even a couple without names on them. If I had to pick my favorites it would be Hornady and Redding, never used Forester marked ones but I think the Bonanza are the same. I put RCBS with Lyman and Lee just average.

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I hate Hornady dies. I've not used them since they replaced the "New Dimension" dies with the new "New Dimension" dies, though. The original ones were junk. Probably why they changed them again.......
 
If I could have the perfect die set for me, it would be a redding fl sizer, lee collet sizer, hornady seater, and lee factory crimp. That would make me happy in one purchase.
 
I have 8 or so sets for rifle, one bushing die. I have switched to Forester
and think they are a little better buy right now, but no complaints on the
hornady's. Can't begin to count the amount of ammo they've reliably produced
for me over the years.
 
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