Forster Seating Die

James M · Post by **James M** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:29 pm

Is Forster Precision Product's patented "perfect alignment" seating die truely unique & useful, or just marketing?

See the Patent here:
http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=US0 ... /3,440,923

James M · Post by **James M** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:10 am

I forgot to add, that this is in reference to Forster Products

http://www.forsterproducts.com/Pages/dies.htm

Jim Watson · Post by **Jim Watson** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:11 am

Looking at their catalog description, the Forster Benchrest die has a sliding sleeve similar to the present Redding Comptition and the old Lyman PA (precision alignment) seating dies. There must have been some difference to gain a patent on, but unfortunately, I cannot bring up patents at the USPO site and haven't been able to download their system.

A friend has some Bonanza Benchrest dies (taken over by Forster after Claude Purdie's death) and says they are the best he owns.

I guess the bad part is that they do not make the Benchrest die (or any Forster die) in BPCR calibres and the Redding Competition die for straight cases is not the same as for bottleneck. It doesn't have the sliding sleeve, just a "floating" seating plug.

Kodiak · Post by **Kodiak** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:41 am

I have a Redding Bench-rest bullet-seater that is marked "45/90 seater". It doesn't have a floating collar to center-up the bullet before final seating. Just a tapered cone-like guide that does the final seating/ alingment of the bullet. I have ran loaded rounds over a device that checks out-of-round cartridges and mine are right-on for straightness. So, I guess the Redding seater works ok

. Good luck,