Page 2 of 2 - Frankford Universal Bullet Seating Die Reviews

I really want to give 5 stars but I can’t, seating depth is all over the place. I’ve double check and double checked everything and I can not get it to seat consistently. Might seat 2-5 good then way off. Seat a few more boom off again. Not sure if mine is flawed or not. The idea is there but the consistency it just not.

Top notch . Cheaper than others . Has all the calibers you need. Has three tips for the difference in bullets. Once set you set it up its on the money every time. Great for the money. For the loaders out here it will not crimp the bullets, that's a different die for that job. Some loaders crimp and some don't like me , never had any problems, Been loading since I've been 17 , and 55 now. Be safe loading . Hope this helps.

I was very excited to get and try these die, as I try and improve the consistency of my reloading COAL was an issue I was having with my existing bullet seating dies. The cost for this universal set seemed like a no brainer if you are seating multiple caliber rifle rounds. As with many "Universal". systems, I wasn't expecting this to be as accurate as the dedicated caliber micrometer seating dies, but for the cost, I crossed my fingers and hoped it would be good enough. These die are extremely accurate. My test run was done with Hornady ELD Match bullets and with a desired COAL length of 2.710. Once set all of my measurements were between 2.710 and 2.7095. This was definitely as accurate as I could hope for and a lot more accurate than my existing bullet seating dies. I also noted that all of my reading were either at my desired setting or very slightly shorter, 5/10,000 of an inch, considering the polymer tips of the bullets being loaded, I wonder how much of the discrepancy is due to bullet lengths and how much to the variability in die seating. Either way I thought this was pretty incredible and am very pleased. Negatives (not really for what it is, but just trying to cover all bases): if you are loading one consistent load, you will lose your setting if you change calibers and as you have to interchange parts in order to change calibers, I doubt that you could just re-assemble and dial in to previous setting to get the exact COAL (I may be wrong, but I can't imaging breaking it down and re-assembling and getting to 1/1000 of accuracy, it could be in ballpark at least though). That being said if you were just loading a single load for a given cartridge with no changes, it might be worth just buying another set of die as the cost is very competitive with other caliber specific micrometer die. I am extremely pleased with my purchase, easy, convenient and very handsome die. If I ever stop playing with loads and start loading once consistent load per caliber, I will purchase sets specific for each one.

I just got my new universal bullet seating die set. I love this die set. I hope that they make one for pistols, such as 9mm, 357 mag. 38 special, 45 ACP and so on.

Having used this for three different calibers, I can say it speeds up reloading and gives accurate col. I wish they had a twenty caliber as I load 204 Rutgers and that would be awesome. May try on my progressive press

Great bullet seating die. Only issue that I have is that the seating rod for .308 is too short for 300 Blackout. The long rod is for .224 bullets. Other than that great buy.