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From: jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns
Subject: Re: Resizer Dies
Message-ID: <1567@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Fri, 31-Oct-86 18:31:04 EST
Article-I.D.: jade.1567
Posted: Fri Oct 31 18:31:04 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Nov-86 20:38:29 EST
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Author: Bruce Coorpender <hplabs!tektronix!shark.GWD.TEK.COM!bruceco@ucbvax.Berkeley.Edu>

In-Reply-To: <1533@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>


Article: 10:57

In article <1533@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> you write:
>Article: 10:45
>
>This is my first posting to this news group, pardon me if it is a little
>rough.  I am considering the purchase of a carbide resizer die for my .357
>magnum and .38 special reloading chores.  I have never seen one in action.
>My questions are:
>
>     1.  Do these things really work like the companies advertise?
>
>     2.  Do they really require no resizing lube to be applied?
>
>     3.  Do they really polish the cases after some use?
>
>     4.  For those who have used these type of dies, which brand would
>        you recommend, Dillion, Lyman, or some other brand?
>
>I've been loading the old way for a long time now and if there is some way
>to get around the sticky goop, I'm all for it.
>
>                                        thanx,
>                                              Dennis Farnden
>UUCP  ucbvax!sdcsvax!caip!lll-crg!csustan!dfarnde@polyslo

I use carbide dies for 357/38 and 45ACP and am delighted with them.
They do not require any sticky goop, you just reload. You only need
the resizer die to be carbide. I use them with a Dillon progressive
reloader, although my dies are RCBS.