Part 1 Reloading Dies Compared Intro Hornady, Redding, Lyman 

Always been a lee fan. Started out a broke shooter now I’m broke because im a shooter:)

I use Lee,RCBS and Hornady....I started re-loading about a year ago and thank God I did....I live in upstate NY and you cant find ammo or re-loading stuff. I got lucky last week and found 2000 small pistol primers and 2000 small pistol magnum and they were just 33.00 per 1000...I almost felt guilty taking them....all the best stay safe and thanks for your hard work for us

Every problem I have had in using dies can be traced back to not reading the instructions, so good instructions are important to me.

One of the best and most honest reviews of die sets I have ever seen. Fortune cookie 45LC is a treasure to the reloading community! Thanks So much for doing this!

I prefer Lee for pistol, Redding bushing sizing dies and Hornady seating dies for rifle. Hornady lock rings for everything.

I always look forward to watching your comprehensive videos!! You are always thorough with your descriptions and evaluations. I appreciate that!! Stay safe out there!! Thanks for all that you do for the reloading community!!

My worst experience with a die set was the Redding 40 S&W Carbide 3 die set (Green Box). They weren’t cheap, either, but I was new, and people raved about Redding dies. No matter what I did I couldn’t get my once fired brass sized to fit an ammo check block. Advised to ignore that and just size, flare, and load. Once I added powder and a bullet I learned that the ammo check block was correct...I could push the bullet right into the case by hand. So I was advised to get the Redding GRx die to get rid of the bulges, since that’s obviously the problem. Then I had to get a pin gauge to determine the diameter of the sizing ring. Lastly, I had to mail the whole set with cases and bullets to Redding. As it turned out...they had the wrong sizing ring in the sizing die. In the end, I could’ve just bought several 40 S&W die sets from the major players for less than I paid for my Redding die set and the additional troubleshooting equipment. Would you believe I haven’t spent another penny on Redding products?

The first two die sets I bought were RCBS. Now, almost 40 years later, I have 85-90 sets of dies including all colors except orange. I have no Lyman sets. I should fix that. I do have a couple of Lyman specialty dies. Looking forward to this series. Thank you for posting it on You Tube.

Awesome video, looking forward to seeing the rest of the series.

Thank you very much, I just started reloading recently and your work in this area have been so helpful in this new hobby for me. I picked up a set of Hornady dies for 44 mag/spec today and noticed that they are a little different from the Lee that I have been using without any issues. Thanks again !

Thanks Mr. Tickles, we're all indebted to you.

Hello my friend ! I follow you since 2016, and I had learned a lot with your vids ! Thank you from Argentina !

Thanks so much Fortune Cookie for your video. Only a couple minutes into your video now, I’m not a pistol loader but instead a long precision rifle shooter. Just the same I suspect the content pretty much reflects rifle info as well. Have watched many of your other videos clips over time.. Thanks for all you do..

My favorite set of dies is a two-die set in .223 Remington/5.56mm Nato that was manufactured by the Pacific Tool Company (division of Hornady) that I bought 45 years ago. The Pacific Tool Company is long since out of business and Hornady has long since abandoned support for their products. Oh, well!

Thank you very much. We very much appreciate it.

Excellent comparisons- thank you

Yeah, I requested this be put on youtube because I felt that with new all the new gun owners/reloaders and people looking in to reloading for the first time shouldn't feel that only the most expensive equipment is worth buying because it's apparent looking at the Redding dies that that is not the case.

Great information and video. Thanks for sharing

Good to see you again

This is excellent just bought almost everything i need to reload this will help big time lee for pistol an Hornady for rifles