A limited number of die sets will be available soon.

[BrassMagnet]

A limited number of die sets will be available soon.
These dies came as a big pile of dies and used to belong to a commercial reloading outfit...actually, two commercial reloading outfits. They are in a giant, well maybe just a truly huge pile of dies. Most have been disassembled. Some are a little rusty and some are a lot rusty. Some even appear to be new and unused dies. The dies which appear to be new and unused are mostly seating dies. Almost all of the sizing dies are steel vice carbide.
There are a limited number of calibers available. There are usually a lot of sets of each caliber. These calibers are calibers which were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. The newest date I have seen on a die is 1980 and many are dated in the 1960s. Many of the die sets are labeled with cartridge designations which were wildcats which became now familiar factory cartridges. A few are from improved cartridges and some are so rare that I have never heard of them! With the number of die sets of each caliber which are available, it makes me wonder if they wore out the sizing dies.
I do believe we have members which would be pleased to have free die sets which a commercial reloader thought of as junk.
It is going to take me a long time to sort these out, clean them up, reassemble the individual dies, and then to sort the dies into usable sets.
Not only that, but Mrs Brass saw one of my credit card bills and complained about how much I had spent on postage! So I can only mail out a limited number of sets each month.
When they are available, I will post a thread for the available dies.
Please don't ask me if I have this or that. I will bet you can't even guess how many of those requests I already get each day!
Since this is a long term project, I would like a little direction from the membership of this forum. I will seek that direction in the form of a poll.
For now, I am posting the poll.

[Jr.]

Very cool sounds like you have lot of work to do.

[Bullshop Junior]

I would help sort them if I was closer

[BrassMagnet]

With five votes cast so far, all are for rifle calibers, and the vote is four to one in favor of uncommon rifle calibers.

I wonder how this poll will shake out after 24 hours has passed.

The first die set to be cleaned up was so rare I had never heard of it. Some custom Mausers were chambered in it. Care to take any guesses which caliber? I might even post it up for grabs first!

[merlin101]

I'm not going to vote as I have all the die's I need, but what your doing is a good and worthy thing!
A BIG THUMBS UP!

[NewbieDave007]

I'm not going to vote as I have all the die's I need, but what your doing is a good and worthy thing!
A BIG THUMBS UP!

^^^^ +1

[Hardcast416taylor]

For someone just getting into reloading and it being for a rifle or handgun alone I would suggest it be for a common caliber. I have in the past given both dies and other reloading equipment to beginner reloaders. Can`t say I have run across many odd calibers in dies or guns that want to be loaded for.Robert

[Doc_Stihl]

Personally I'm into wildcat and oddball dies. I'm not in need of them, but I like to have forming dies and equipment for making the brass I do use.
If there are folks out there that are just getting into reloading and need the basics I'd be willing to help out by picking up the tab for shipping on a few sets if something came along that I could use.

Was that wildcat set you cleaned up a 6.5x257 Roberts?

[sparkz]

Very Cool,,, I am gona guess 30cal,, did I win,, hahahaha

[BrassMagnet]

Personally I'm into wildcat and oddball dies. I'm not in need of them, but I like to have forming dies and equipment for making the brass I do use.
If there are folks out there that are just getting into reloading and need the basics I'd be willing to help out by picking up the tab for shipping on a few sets if something came along that I could use.

Was that wildcat set you cleaned up a 6.5x257 Roberts?

Much rarer! Much larger! Keep guessing!

[Bullshop Junior]

55 boyes?

[BrassMagnet]

Very Cool,,, I am gona guess 30cal,, did I win,, hahahaha

Much larger and so rare I had to google it!

[BrassMagnet]

55 boyes?

Now we are braketing!
Smaller!

[Bullshop Junior]

Give me a time era. Too many choices.

[Three-Fifty-Seven]

,,,,,,,

[BrassMagnet]

Now this poll is shaking out about like I expected!
No truly firm direction on which way to go. Nearly half want pistol and nearly half want rifle!

Just for some hints on how this pile looks:
I suspect there are more dies in .222 than we have members with rifles or pistols in this caliber.
The same applies for .222 Mag and .22 Rem Jet and 7MM Wby Mag.
They are definitely fixed in time as there is not a single die for 10MM, .40S&W, or 7.62x39.

[Sweetpea]

Ron, is it a 9.3 x 62?

[BrassMagnet]

Sounds like you found a .488 whatchamacallit?

I too think common calibers, and handgun at that ... as newbies starting out could benefit from that ... then work your way through the "pile"

Smaller than .488!

Hint! Hint! Hint!
It is a metric designated caliber which custom Mausers were chambered in. A Big Un! Think African safari Mauser!

[BrassMagnet]

Ron, is it a 9.3 x 62?

Close, but still bigger!

[GRUMPA]

Heck about the only 2 I can think of right off the bat would be 25 and 32 Rem sizer dies. Been looking on evilbay and the prices have this nasty habit of skyrocketing 20 minutes before the bidding closes. OH YEAH!!....some of the obscure pistol dies as well. I get asked from time to time about the 8mm Nambu and recently the 7.65 French long. Now that I have a lathe it makes some things easier but I do need to get a collet set-up for it, and more tooling.