Really Forster????
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RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
As long as you don't get it wet, cardboard boxes will give good service.
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freebullet
Guest
My most prized dies come in a little plastic bag from a fella goes by buckshot.
Have a couple that didn't come in anything. From a guy goes by Brad, not much on the shiny packaging, but he makes some good ones.
Otherwise hornady boxes have worked well.
Have a couple that didn't come in anything. From a guy goes by Brad, not much on the shiny packaging, but he makes some good ones.
Otherwise hornady boxes have worked well.
waco
Springfield, Oregon
I did just that....
I really like Forster dies. I think their bullet seating dies are tops. Y'all know that Forster absorbed Bonanza and the thing that upset me is Forster didn't keep Bonanza's revolver/pistol line of dies, and in fact Forster makes no revolver/pistol dies today. Something for those of you that like their dies especially the benchrest seater dies, you don't have to buy a complete benchrest seater die. You can just buy the sleeve inside that the cartridge goes into. Thng is there are different seaters dies for large cartridges and small ones. If you have a 300 Win Mag seater you can't use the 223 insert in it, it has to go in the smaller seater dies. You can save a lot of money that way as the inserts last time I bought them were $27 as opposed to what the whole die cost. If you do that be sure to order the nose punch too!
I spoke with their tech once about how I thought their chamber in that sleeve used in the seater dies being cut with a chamber reamer. He said I was essentially correct except of course it doesn't have the throat and cone and also maybe just a hair larger then a chamber. Darn good idea though for a seater die. Thing is for cast you have to open up the bullet channel.
I spoke with their tech once about how I thought their chamber in that sleeve used in the seater dies being cut with a chamber reamer. He said I was essentially correct except of course it doesn't have the throat and cone and also maybe just a hair larger then a chamber. Darn good idea though for a seater die. Thing is for cast you have to open up the bullet channel.
JonB
Halcyon member
Yep, they are spendy from Forster.
My eyes are always open at gunshows for Bonanza benchrest die sets, since they are old, they usually sell cheap, like $20. If I really can't wait to find one (BR seater die) at a gunshow, one can be found for about 1/2 price of a new Forster on ebay. I have swapped out almost all of the Seater dies from my Lee rifle die sets...I even mod'd a 7mm STW Bonanza BR seater for my 6.5x257R.
My eyes are always open at gunshows for Bonanza benchrest die sets, since they are old, they usually sell cheap, like $20. If I really can't wait to find one (BR seater die) at a gunshow, one can be found for about 1/2 price of a new Forster on ebay. I have swapped out almost all of the Seater dies from my Lee rifle die sets...I even mod'd a 7mm STW Bonanza BR seater for my 6.5x257R.
