Valkyrie dies
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IMO yes, the Reddings are the best of them. Just a piece of advice though, if you take advantage of the round for where it really shines and load the long heavy bullets you'll need the VLD stem regardless and the micrometer set they have comes with a standard stem which will leave rings on the bullets, sometimes very heavy if you're running a compressed load. The micrometer set is nothing more than a standard seater with the micrometer, it's not like their competition seater. You're money ahead if you buy their standard 2 die set and then buying the VLD micrometer stem separately.
Following rednecks comments-
I am seeing the standard redding 2 die set as 73 at brownells and the vld stem would be a 39 add on for a total of 112.
The redding premium is 109 on sale, usually 126, but you would need to swap it for the vld stem according to bmx which wold bring the total up to 148. This does come with a carbide expander ball though which they charge an additional 39 for. Up to you whether that makes a lick of difference or not.
@redneckbmxer24 Do you know which redding vld stem it would be? I would imagine #23 but I guesss 24 could also be it. EDIT: 23 it is.
I am seeing the standard redding 2 die set as 73 at brownells and the vld stem would be a 39 add on for a total of 112.
The redding premium is 109 on sale, usually 126, but you would need to swap it for the vld stem according to bmx which wold bring the total up to 148. This does come with a carbide expander ball though which they charge an additional 39 for. Up to you whether that makes a lick of difference or not.
@redneckbmxer24 Do you know which redding vld stem it would be? I would imagine #23 but I guesss 24 could also be it. EDIT: 23 it is.
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The seating stem you want is #09183.
The premium set does come with the carbide expander but for me it's a moot point since I never run the expanders. I use a Sinclair expander mandrel in the next step which gives me far more consistent seating pressure/neck tension, and doesn't increase runout from tool deflection like the expanders in a sizing die will, even the floating carbide ball.
The premium set does come with the carbide expander but for me it's a moot point since I never run the expanders. I use a Sinclair expander mandrel in the next step which gives me far more consistent seating pressure/neck tension, and doesn't increase runout from tool deflection like the expanders in a sizing die will, even the floating carbide ball.
