Titegroups
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Anybody use these for handgun loads. I'm a bullseye shooter and just wondering if there is a bit more accuracy to be had with these.
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Redding Competition Dies
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29aholic
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I really don't see an advantage for handgun loads. I like Redding dies for rifle shooting due to the fact they are cut with one reamer like a rifle chamber instead of two like most other companies do. That's all of their dies not just the comp. ones.
trulyapostolic
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For BE competition you want a seater that seats off the SWC shoulder, the competition dies don't do that. There's a guy on eBay who sells that type of seating stem for several different brands of dies. I'll see if I can find a link and post it. BTW, are you just starting to shoot BE?
trulyapostolic
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His user name is rrpmi.
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Titegroups
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I've been shooting BE for about 6mos. Shoot a 900 match every week and a 1800 match and Harry Reeves match a couple times a month in which I use 357 revolvers, I load SWC and DEWC, saw those dies offered by Redding and wondered who else would use them? Not many uses outside of BE except maybe bench rest handguns. I was contemplating buying a single stage press and a set of them and giving them a try on the ransom rest to see if it made any difference and thought I'd ask if anyone else had been down that road. Thanks for the rrpmi info, Ill look into it.
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Am using the pistol comp dies for seating jacketed bullets with high case neck tension that might push bullet to one side. They are not as tight as the rifle comp dies, and certainly not neccessary, and perhaps a lot less useful for lead target loads.
