Carbide is highly resistant to normal wear, carbide case sizer rings last for hundreds of thousands of uses but case hardened steel bullet sizers are pretty durable too. Your new sizers are nice but I can't imagine lead bullets ever causing a hardened steel bullet sizer to wear enough to measure so I wonder what your new carbide sizers will bring to the table. ???
I for one would love to see the NOE sizers for the Star made from carbide. They would be slicker, or at least my experience with carbide dies is that if they are polished to the same spec as steel, they are slicker.
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The cost of a solid carbide die that size is so great you could make 5 or 6 through hardened dies out of A2 tool steel for the same price. A worn steel die can always be honed to the next largest size and then reused.
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Wow, that's an impressive pile of loading and shooting in one month! (Hope he has a good Dillon press with a reusable lifetime warranty!)
More seriously, I've read that steel reloading dies are expected to FL size something like ~ 250,000 rounds before case sizer wear exceeds tolerance. And that's brass against hardened steel. Seems far softer lead bullets pushed through steel sizers would last nearly forever even for a commercial process.
BUT ... I'm sure your nice carbide bullet sizers will work well for a looong time!
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