Thread: Hornaday dies?

Originally Posted by muka88

My local only stocks hornaday and I like to shop local.
They alright?

most of my dies are hornady perfectly fine i use mine in a rcbs rock chucker press

Originally Posted by tetawa

Also changed over to Imperial case sizing wax a few years ago, have also found that great.

yeap bloody good wax, a little goes along way.

Originally Posted by muka88

Thank @Max Headroom might make the trip down to reloaders and see what they have

Ask them their take on Hornady dies. They might have another point of view on it. Reloaders are pretty good.

Originally Posted by Mauser308

Yeah, it's the unstick past the expander ball that takes the massive effort on my .308 dies as well. I suspect without quantitatively checking that the initial neck sizing might be a little tight for the expander ball. Seems like the expander ball is quite short compared to the Lee and Lyman versions. The Redding ones are bushing dies so don't run a ball. Could also be due to milspec 7.62 once-fired cases out of a machine gun so a tad long haha...

Do you lube the inside of your case necks with graphite powder? I have no problems at all with my 3 sets of Hornady dies, but I do dip every case neck in graphite powder before I size it.

I lube the cases but NOT the neck, dip the neck in graphite powder.

To stop that just rub the inside of the neck with graphite powder with a worn out brush with a patch wrapped around it.
Guaranteed to work!

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Originally Posted by andyanimal31

To stop that just rub the inside of the neck with graphite powder with a worn out brush with a patch wrapped around it.
Guaranteed to work!

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I'm sure that will work. The thing that grates me a little about this is that I wouldn't have to do that with a lee die.

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

I'm sure that will work. The thing that grates me a little about this is that I wouldn't have to do that with a lee die.

The Lee colett die you dont but any thing with an expander ball no.

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