Thirties
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I recently bought a Redding "competition" seating die — the one with the micrometer dial for setting the seating depth. Mine is for .38/.357mag revolvers. Well, it really works exactly as advertized. I'm very pleased.
I also just got one of the Hornady calibrated seating stems, but I haven't yet tried it. I have Hornady die sets in .32acp and 9mm Makarov. It looks like it will work just fine.
With the Hornady, it repaces the seating stem in your existing dies and you use the original seating plug(s).
The Redding system has Hornady-style sleeves, but with a coil spring. They use their own "competition" seating plugs. The only bummer with the Redding comp die is they only come with one plug (ogive). I had to buy a second plug for wadcutter bullets. But the darn thing works really well. You must set it up, calibrated for each of the plugs. You write down the setting, say, for your shortest round. In my case it was the 125g flat point Berry @ 1.445". For any COL longer than that, you just dial in the difference, and you are exactly on the number. It's almost boring.
Where have these tools been all my life?
Anyone else have any experience with either of these (Redding, Hornady)?
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I also just got one of the Hornady calibrated seating stems, but I haven't yet tried it. I have Hornady die sets in .32acp and 9mm Makarov. It looks like it will work just fine.
With the Hornady, it repaces the seating stem in your existing dies and you use the original seating plug(s).
The Redding system has Hornady-style sleeves, but with a coil spring. They use their own "competition" seating plugs. The only bummer with the Redding comp die is they only come with one plug (ogive). I had to buy a second plug for wadcutter bullets. But the darn thing works really well. You must set it up, calibrated for each of the plugs. You write down the setting, say, for your shortest round. In my case it was the 125g flat point Berry @ 1.445". For any COL longer than that, you just dial in the difference, and you are exactly on the number. It's almost boring.
Where have these tools been all my life?
Anyone else have any experience with either of these (Redding, Hornady)?
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