Thread: How important is die quality?

Out of the standard type dies Lee is one of the best IMO. Standard as in basic seating die and a FL die with expander button. I have found that lee and RCBS FL dies are the nicest when using the expander button. I have used Hornady dies and have a set of Redding dies that are just horrible trying to drag the expander back through the neck. Luckily with the Redding the expander button can be unscrewed leaving you with a decapping stem. This approach works great for me.