I'm a big fan of Hornady dies. Their sizing die is about equal to everyone else. The zip spindle leaves a little to be desired but their tapered expander ball is top notch, I make 25-204 brass from 204 Ruger and with others I have to do it in two steps with the Hornady it is one pass over their expander ball. The seating die is top notch also, the sliding sleeve makes loading small bullets easy especially short bullets like 33gr in the 218 Bee that can get cocked in the seater. I've had Hornady make custom dies for me and at the time they were considerably less than other top name makers. RCBS is like Leuopld scope, average quality but a fantastic warranty. If I use a set of RCBS dies I usually toss the seater and use a Hornady instead but I do that with most of my die sets. I have lots of different dies from Herters, Redding, Forester, Bonanza, Pacific, Lee, C&H(Old and new), RCBS, Hornady, Lyman and a couple with no names on them, they all make accurate ammo..
