Just Some Idle Thoughts

[GypsmJim]

I loaded up a few boxes of .357 and .45 Colt and as usual it went well.

Then I loaded some rifle brass and of course had to go thru the chore of lubing and then cleaning them after resizing. A PITA in my mind.

My thought was I wonder why they don't make Carbide Rifle Dies?

 

[71vette]

They do but it wouldn't matter. The extra resistance pretty much requires some kind of lube.

I agree though. Reloading straight wall pistol is much simpler.

 

[USSR]

With straight wall cases, you have a single ring of carbide of one diameter to resize the entire case to one diameter. Look at all the angles and various diameters on a bottleneck rifle case, and there's your answer.

 

[rockquarry]

Because many rifle cartridges are tapered? Maybe the whole inside of the die would have to be carbide instead of just a thing ring ring be dier would have

With straight wall cases, you have a single ring of carbide of one diameter to resize the entire case to one diameter. Look at all the angles and various diameters on a bottleneck rifle case, and there's your answer.

Look like the cost to use carbide on the complete inside of a die for a bottleneck case would make the cost so high no one would buy it.

 

[sjmjax]

Carbide is what cutting tools are made from.

Precision machining carbide to the typical contours of a rifle cartridge is possible but very expensive.

Carbide may not eliminate the need for lubricants. The taper on rifle cartridges would likely cause sticking. Not unlike the Morse taper on many tool shanks.