I am a sucker for homemade dies

[texassako]

The sort like the old Lyman FL hand dies. They are a puzzle. What caliber could it be? How did they make it? Why? Here are a couple of my latest finds, the back row is an unknown(so far) on left and a .300" bullet sizer?(full of lube) for 7.35 Carcano on right, the front row R-L is .44 American, .455 Webley, .45 ACP, and I will leave the one on the left as a test (hint: not 7.62x39 but invented about the same time) Anybody else find these kinds of tools interesting?

[Dan Cash]

On the left, .30 Luger. I don't collect these things but have fashioned this kind of thing for .375x2 1/2 inch Flanged back before RCBS made them.

[EDG]

7.92 x 33 Kurz

I like the hand tools. I have a 9X57R made by Lyman and a few that are more common.

[Mk42gunner]

7.92x33mm? The one for the Nazi assault rifle?

Robert

Slow typist syndrome strikes again......

[CastingFool]

I once made a neck sizing die for a .50 BMG. I had a couple of fired cartridges, and had found a couple of spent bullets at a range, and wanted a complete round, so I made the die. Wish I still had it, not that I would use it again, just because it was something I made.

[texassako]

It is a 7.92x33 Kurz. I thought it was an odd one to load this way considering the speed they could go through ammo. I don't really use them except to make a sample to go with them on the old and interesting stuff shelf in the garage. The exception may be the Carcano die. It is just right for sizing down .308" jacketed bullets to .300". They really prefer a longer bullet(I am running out of my 170gr ones) than the little Hornady bullets.