What dies do you use ?

[Bmans45]

In my 750 I use Redding  and lee. I use the lee factory crimp and a bulge buster And a Redding seat die. I do see all these pictures of these red, blue , gold dies that don’t look like what I am using. What are those and who is using them? 

Edited August 12, 2020 by Bmans45

[RGA]

The red and blue ones are most likely Mighty Armory decappers and/or hold down dies and the gold ones FW Arms decappers and/or hold down dies.

 

These are what I use.

Edited August 12, 2020 by RGA

[Bmans45]

Yup that’s what I have been seeing. Thanks 

[RePete]

1050 and Dillon dies.  Never had a problem.

[78Staff]

Same, I use mostly Dillon on my 1050 and 550... exceptions are a lee taper crimp die for 38spl target rounds when using coated bullets with no crimp ring/cannelure, and Lyman M-Die when processing brass.  But otherwise, Dillon dies have done the job.  I tried the Redding micrometer seating/crimp dies for a bit, but for what I load on the 1050 found them unnecessary and not worth the extra cost.  I do use Forster Micrometer dies on the coax, however.

[stick]

I run Lee dies in my XL650. I've never had a problem with them and I like the fact that the decapping pin pops up instead of breaking if I happen to punch a berdan primes case.  

[PhotoRecon]

Redding, RCBS, and Dillon...depends on which cartridge I'm loading...

[Abominator]

I use Lee and Lyman M dies for expansion.

[RudyVey]

Two 550's here, run setups for 9, .45, 357 mag and 38 spl. Use Dillons and also Lee die sets. 9 and 45 have lee undersize die as first step.

[Cuz]

Two 550's here, run setups for 9, .45, 357 mag and 38 spl. Use Dillons and also Lee die sets. 9 and 45 have lee undersize die as first step.

I didn’t know lee made a U die in 9mm. Why do you need it? For brass from open 9mm Guns? Or Glocks?


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[Sarge]

48 minutes ago, Cuz said:

I didn’t know lee made a U die in 9mm. Why do you need it? For brass from open 9mm Guns? Or Glocks?


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Actually LEE makes the EGW Udie for EGW as well.

  The Udie in very general terms is the best fix for bullet setback. I have used one in 9mm for ten years now. I found that certain bullets with certain brass would easily push into the case by hand. 

Edited October 10, 2020 by Sarge

[Taves]

On 8/12/2020 at 12:46 PM, RGA said:

The red and blue ones are most likely Mighty Armory decappers and/or hold down dies and the gold ones FW Arms decappers and/or hold down dies.

 

These are what I use.

This is a nice setup, can you walk through it in detail. I’ve always used Dillon, RCBS, REDDING, Lee, but never those.

Haven’t seen these on their website either.

[RGA]

On 11/13/2020 at 5:53 AM, Taves said:

This is a nice setup, can you walk through it in detail. I’ve always used Dillon, RCBS, REDDING, Lee, but never those.

Haven’t seen these on their website either.

Those are all decappers I placed on the toolhead for the picture.