You may know all there is to know about expensive dies but I don't...give me a break! I've never had anything but RCBS or Lyman dies.
I'm sorry, I was rude..... I felt you were picking on some seriously nice guys.
And I was wrong.
The Bros Harrell came up with a neat concept..... they have CNC tooling with which they make beaucoup parts, RUNS of parts, dozens or hundreds or thousands at a whack. The hard part is mapping the part, then, once they have a program in the mo'chine it can spit out parts posthaste, bingity-bingity-boom.
So here's what they did,
They said "you send us your brass, fired in your chamber, and we'll make a program and send you back a die....CHEAP..... but we keep the program for your chamber." Before long they had programs written for most of the common chambers out there so it was a matter of call the shop floor and "run 50 of the XX-X dies" or "we're running low on such-and-such."
Good dies, good price, good turnaround, good business.
So, long story short, they make a decently fitted die CHEAP and make it up in volume.... but, they only offer 6-8 different chamberings at any given time. Currently they are providing dies for the 220R case(6PPC and certain variants), the 6.5X47L case(typically 6x47L through 30X47L) and the 6BR variants. And sometimes, MAYBE the .308 case-based chamberings. And they'll hit your match, even if it takes two-three tries and if they can't they;ll write a program specifically for YOU.... (I've got 3-4 set up for ME that prolly no-one else buys because I'm weird)
But I'm not wittingly mean so, again, I'm Sorry For Climbing Your Tree.....
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