hornady dies

[Hattrick]

has anyone had problems with them in 6.5?

[NugginFutz]

None at all. I only needed to back off the sizing die a turn or so, to avoid bumping the shoulders too much. The destructions indicated to set the die to contact the ram at TDC, which was too much for my setup, but hey - easier to back off than wish you could compress more.

[Bwild97]

When I first set mine up (Hornady dies and #6 Shell holder), I failed to measure the shoulder set back. They were producing a shoulder set back of about .014" - .004" +/- .001" is usually recommended.

That is the only issue I have had.

[Eisenacharms]

I think I'm going to go this way, I really like all my other dies from hornady. Price can't be beat either. http://www.midwayusa.com/product/374...ProductFinding

Other than the hornady set the redding 2 die set looks good, but I don't have a lot of experience with redding dies.

Unless someone can convince me to go another route?

[mongoosesnipe]

if the difference in cost does not bother you go with the redding

[arizona98tj]

I've used Dillon, RCBS, and Lyman over the past 35+ years. For my Grendel, I bought Redding. It was like stepping up to a new level of quality, IMO.

[joker31]

I have been thinking about switching to hornady dies for Grendel, Still using my old AA (Lee) dies. I dont like the Lee seating dies but really like the Hornady Seating dies because of the alignment insert. I also like the fact that they have special inserts for their bullets. The Lee's leave a ring around the tip on my TTSX's which kinda tweaks me the wrong way, those little bastards are exxpensive.

[cory]

Another one for Redding. I love them.

[Dogue]

I have been thinking about switching to hornady dies for Grendel, Still using my old AA (Lee) dies. I dont like the Lee seating dies but really like the Hornady Seating dies because of the alignment insert. I also like the fact that they have special inserts for their bullets. The Lee's leave a ring around the tip on my TTSX's which kinda tweaks me the wrong way, those little bastards are exxpensive.

Do it! I used to use the Lee's too and they are terrible (I still use Lee in pistol calibers with no issue). The Hornady dies are much more consistent and no "ring" on the bullet ogive. I'm sure the Redding's are awesome but for my use the Hornady's are great.

[dmsims21]

I am so glad this is a thread on reloading dies made by Hornady and not the death of Hornady.
When I read "Hornady Dies", I was worried that the company or a member named Hornady had died.
I was relieved.

[NugginFutz]

Now THAT is funny.

[jrfarmer]

I have a set of hornady dies and they do a good job. I had to worked with them for a bit but now getting excellent results. I have to set my sizing die a full extra turn otherwise I will not bump my shoulder properly. With that said I am fairly new to the reloading world and not sure if there is any way to correct this without seating them 1 extra turn.

I just went out to the range last saturday with some new work ups of 120gr TSX, 129gr SST, 123gr SST, 100gr AMAX. I was able to get .599MOA out of the TSX and .61MOA from the 129gr @100 yards. Seeing that all my power loads were in the .6-.7moa range I decided to push it out to 300 hoping to see some reliable difference with my 100gr AMAX and 123gr SST. The SST was around .7MOA @300yrds and the AMAX was around .8-.9 MOA I believe. I plan on posting all my results, pics, and loads shortly. All of this was using 3 times fired PPU brass trimmed to 1.515 and IMR 8208 XBR.