Finding a die in a hurry

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MartyK2500

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Hello, I am searching for a .40SW resizing/depriming die in a hurry.
All of ones I find in stock are sets of 3 dies, but I have other dies as my station 1 die went thru catastrophic failure yesterday.
Low on loaded ammo and would need that single die, any clues where they would be stocked?
Idealy i'd want a Dillon but im not too fussy, its going on a Dillon 550B
 
You going to tell us exactly what happened or shall we keep making stuff up? There might be a simple fix.
Suspect you'll have a hunt for a sizer only either way. Not much demand for single sizer dies.
The busted one a Dillon? Dillon's customer service is known for being excellent and their warrantee is as good as RCBS'. Likely be a lot faster to give 'em a call. The border is not an issue. Or shouldn't be.
And Dillon presses do not require Dillon dies.
 
I just recently started reloading .40, did 60K+ rounds of 9 before i know my way around that press.
On my 9 i had purchased redding competition bullet seating die at some point.
Now when i bought an extra tool head and powder measure for 40, i went with the full redding trio.
Last night, as i resized, my casing cut in half in the die. Didnt notice since i am solely focused on station 3, making sure theres always powder before putting bullet in/seating it.
When my second casing got in my station 1 (which already had half a casing), catastrophic failure occured.
Redding have a threaded reinforced shaft you tight your decapping pin in it, even that part broke, its not a matter of simply changing decapping pins.
At least on dillon dies (like my 9mm one) the decapping pin goes all the way up and is held wih a half clip, no threaded shaft BS.

Greenbob, thanks for the links ill send a message tomorow
 
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I found a die and bought it in person.
Higginsons has individual dies, as in not selling them as a set of 3.
Costs me just shy of 30$ taxes included with a spare depriming pin.
It's a Lee carbide die, looks much more solid than the redding resizing that broke.
I can post a picture up of the damage if anyone is curious, and how the dillon/Lee system is more advanced than the redding.
Redding do have a really cool adjustable bullet seating depth die, that i couldnt do without.
 
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