Originally Posted by
Pierre
Amadeus, you really don't need different dies. In the past 4 or 5 years Mfg's have come out with "specific" dies for the caliber. I really don't know how I survived with just RCBS for some 50 years. LOL
But there is a factor involved. .287 brass can be easily resized to 7.5 and in the G11 series of rifles it works perfectly. That brass in a k31 will fail to extract about 1 time out of 25. The rim is just a bit smaller than the 7.5 brass. We now use Redding, but........... That first die some 15 years ago cost me $585.00 because it didn't exist at the time and had to be custom made. Now I see they're around $140 or so for the Deluxe set. The Bushing sizer is another $55 or so. We just happen to be big Redding Competition/Bushing die fans.
You can just use the RCBS for everything, but that advertising hype is rather tempting, eh?