I’ve been considering this question since it was first posted but couldn’t really come up with anything. But today I have it. What bothers me about reloading is setting up dies. I don’t know why I dislike it so much, but it’s one of my least favorite tasks, aside from brass prep of course.

It came to me today after I have been dragging my feet for over a year to set up new-to-me RCBS dies for my .44. I’ve been using Lee 4-die carbides and I just don’t care for them. Nothing seems smooth in the process of reloading with these dies, so finally befor I started production on some .44’s this week, I just bit the bullet and got the new ones set up. They are much smoother to run and I’m happy I did it! With my Co-Ax I set dies up with the lock rings and don’t touch them much after that. I know some guys say you set up dies each time you work on a particular cartridge, but I’m not in that camp.


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