Redding .50 Beowulf Dies Are the One of Man's Greatest Achievments

[BenL]

For a couple years now, I've been resizing .50 Beowulf Brass with Lee dies. If you use enough lube (not too much or it will ripple the brass), bring it up half way, rotate the brass 90 degrees, and bring up the ram a second time, put some muscle behind it, and hope for the best, you should have a resized piece of brass. As the dies broke in, it got a *little* better, but was still a time-consuming choir.

I finally picked up a set of Redding dies for the Beowulf, and all I can say is, "Wow!! What a difference!!"

I resized 800 pieces of brass in the time it would have taken me to resize 200 before, and only needed lube every other case.

For anyone else reloading for the Beowulf, do yourself a favor: toss those Lee dies into the bay and pick up the Redding dies. You won't regret it.

 

[E.Shell]

Welcome to the Dark Side.

I use all RCBS and Redding myself.

 

[Caeb75]

You really get what you pay for, don't you??

I tried some Lee dies way back when I first started reloading. I will never use them again.

Oh, and a second on what Ed said with the addition of Dillon Precision dies.

 

[BenL]

When I first got the Beowulf, the only company making dies were Lee. Man, they're not great (at least the Beowulf dies aren't.) Now, CH4D, Hornady, and Redding all make dies for the Beowulf.

My other dies (as well as most of my reloading stuff) is all RCBS, except for the 300BLK dies, which are Forester (also pretty decent.) These Redding dies, though... very nice. I'll have to remember that for future die purchases.

 

[rickyp]

if you dont want the lee beowult dies You can feel free to ship them to me

 

[BenL]

They'll be in the classifieds section as soon as i have time to take pics.

 

[rickyp]

if the price is right they wont have to to in the classifieds

 

[pcfixer]

That's an awesome gun...

 

[guthook]

That's an awesome gun...

Thanks! I'm quite fond of it also. I'm still working on my right gun, but yeah, lefty is quite a marvel.

 

[rickyp]

tell me all about the 50. it is very high on my list of uppers to get and I am thinking about maybe having it chambered in a 15" encore.

I did see where you can use 50 caliber powerbelt bullets (with the powerbelt removed)
when i saw that it got me thinking, Powerbelt made a dangrous game bullet with a harden core in it. that would make a hjell of a bullet out of the beowulf.

I am looking for all the stuff to start reloading for it before I order the $800 upper