Well, once agin I’ve proven that organized people never make the exciting discoveries I do! At least 10 or 15 years ago I bought a set of Leisure Group era Lyman 310 dies in 9mm. I found them cheap at a gun show ($5-10 at most) and I don’t think they had ever been out of the grey and black striped box... they still had the waxed paper on them. Anyway, in one of my abortive attempts at cleaning and organizing I put this set as well as a few other 310 items and a couple of moulds in a tote tray, planning to take them to the next gun show. The tote promptly got buried in my mess and only resurfaced recently.
With the increased cost and decreased availability of 9mm ammo I decided to reload some for the first time, and although I had inherited a full sized 7/8 X 14 set, I just used the carbide die from that to decap and resize, then did the recapping with a 1st Gen Lee hand tool and everything else with the 310 tool. Oh yeah, I even found out that I had a rotor for my Pacific Pistol Measure that dropped the exact load of 231 I wanted. I loaded 20 test rounds and took them out to test for function, then came back and loaded 100 this afternoon in a surprisingly short time. No stress, just casual, old fashioned reloading. Just think, I could have sold or traded off that die set years ago and missed all of this!
Chaos can be fun!