I just wanted to share my experience with these dies. Some of you may have had outstanding luck with them, but I have not.
I have developed a love for the 30-06 and have a handful of nice rifles for the round. I bought some new brass and found some older stuff lying around my reloading area. I wanted to full-length size all of it before the first loading. To this end, I bought a set of the Lee dies because they were inexpensive and I thought how badly can you screw up a pretty basic piece of reloading equipment. I will never think that again.
I started using the FL die and was getting .008" runout on the case neck. Gee, thought I, better reread the instructions and try it again. I did my reading and "squared" the die in the press, blah, blah, blah. Still no luck.
Since I was getting nowhere fast with this die, I ordered a Redding bushing die. I would run a unsized new case in the Redding and get none to a shimmer of runout. I replaced the Redding die with the Lee and was back to .006"-.008" runout.
I have used Lee Collet dies(I know some of you hate 'em) and loaded great ammo. The RGB is a different story.
Again, this is just my experience that I am passing along.
david
I have developed a love for the 30-06 and have a handful of nice rifles for the round. I bought some new brass and found some older stuff lying around my reloading area. I wanted to full-length size all of it before the first loading. To this end, I bought a set of the Lee dies because they were inexpensive and I thought how badly can you screw up a pretty basic piece of reloading equipment. I will never think that again.
I started using the FL die and was getting .008" runout on the case neck. Gee, thought I, better reread the instructions and try it again. I did my reading and "squared" the die in the press, blah, blah, blah. Still no luck.
Since I was getting nowhere fast with this die, I ordered a Redding bushing die. I would run a unsized new case in the Redding and get none to a shimmer of runout. I replaced the Redding die with the Lee and was back to .006"-.008" runout.
I have used Lee Collet dies(I know some of you hate 'em) and loaded great ammo. The RGB is a different story.
Again, this is just my experience that I am passing along.
david