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Hammie, we've been hammering 'em out about the same lenght of time, I started in '65. I had some fixed ideas and favorites on dies too...until I bought a concentricity gage and a Stoney Point case gage set (now Hornady)! Now I don't.
I still have old dies from Savage Arms, Herter's, Hollywood, Bair, Eagle, Lachmiller, Pacific, Wells, Ruhr-American and a couple of others as well as all of the current makers ('cept Dillon). If they are set up correctly, I find no average or consistant difference by brand after testing the output of dozens of die sets. The only die I ever found "bad", that meaning no way to make acceptably concentric ammo from it, was a bent necked .243 sizer from Savage...and they really didn't last long in the market!
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