RCBS Dies & Sticking Cases = Garbage!!!

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Well, I had purchased a set of RCBS .270 Win dies about a month ago, and so far have only loaded 30 rounds, and found cases sticking and requiring way more force than I was used to with the Lee dies I have owned dozens of over the past few years.

This morning I was decapping and sizing a bunch of once fired brass I just received and having a hell of a time.

I tried more lube, different lube, and still found the RCBS dies to be very stiff at best, and with many cases they almost jammed requiring a ton of force to break loose.

And then it happened....... I finally got a case completely stuck, and the rim of the case broke off, leaving the shell jammed into the die. I have never had this happen with any other rounds I have reloaded including .308, 30-30, .223, and the several handgun calibres I load for.

Anyways I said screw it, and went and got myself a Lee Deluxe set with the neck sizing die(will be nice once I fire all this brass) and it was $10 cheaper than the damn RCBS which was only a 2 die set.

Get home, and run all the rest of my brass through this Lee die without an issue! No sticking, or hard force required......

So what the hell happened? Everyone rags on Lee, but for my money I will buy there dies every time!

Not taking my chances with the RCBS crap again!


P.S. If anyone wants a RCBS .270 WIN sizing die, with a case stuck in it, pay the shipping and its yours. The rim of the case is broken off, but if you have a stuck case remover it will come out I imagine.
 
From my own experience lee is way lower quality

Call Rcbs. I bet you will be taken care of right now.

Everyone squeaks a lemon out the door sometimes but to outright call Rcbs crap....
I don't think so
 
I've been searching for this stuff, as mine got lost in a bit of a house shuffle right after I bought it.
I know it'll eventually turn up, but will need some next week. Does anyone in Southern Ontario(Preferrably west of GTA)
carry this in stock? Have looked at 2 gun stores in Kitchener, no luck.
 
This is not typical of RCBS dies, so I am assuming that the dies are defective for some reason. For the most part, RCBS dies are better quality and easier to use than than the LEE dies.

If the dies are defective, RCBS will rep-lace them with no questions asked, usually with just a phone call. If you have given the dies to malice, he has just got himself a brand new set of RCBS dies.All he needs to do is make a phone call. :)
 
I have a set of 444 dies that will stick every case unless i first remove the decapper and run the brass through the dies twice. Rcbs wanted me to send the dies in along with the brass i was sizing, the shipping would have killed me . I have no issues with my lee dies. In fact the only junk lee sells is the powder scale in my opinion.
 
Well, just thinking about it, and looking at the die when I first got it the Decapping pin seemed off centre when rotating the die into the press.

Might have had something to do with it, but who knows.

I got the Lee dies for what shipping would have likely cost me anyways so whatever.

And Malice is only getting the sizing die. The seating die I really like. ;)
 
There might be another issue here as well. They did not happen to be a set of small base dies did they? Also maybe they were set to deep in the press? Also was the decapong pin set to far out and hitting the inside bottom of the case?

You very well might have gotten a bad die that kind of stuff happens now and then but to call RCBS crap and Lee items great. I am sorry to say that is coming from one who does know as much as they think they do or has very little knowlege in this field.

Just my two cents worth.

Graydog
 
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