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I'm confused about the Match Master product which is essentially a rebadged gold-metal match seater. They'll be discontinuing the standard comp seater and GMM seater dies, and no longer market the interchangeable stem and collar for the comp seater die.
The main feature of these dies is the window for dropping bullets in from the top. The difference between the standard comp die and the Gold Metal Match (and Match Master) is the floating stem that allows for better alignment, however, interchangeable guts are not available for the GMM (MM) dies and therefore you cannot switch the guts like with the regular comp seater die.
**I reload about 20 cartridges, I have two RCBS Comp seater die bodies and about 12 sets of "guts" to switch calibers. By my count, that comes out to about $500 I've paid to RCBS. If they were to offer the Match seater with interchangeable guts, I would gladly pay another $600 or so to upgrade. It would cost about $2,000 to buy all the match seater dies separately though, even accounting for cartridges that could use the same die.
Reloading is a market of people that don't want to get nickel and dimed... we want synergy and value. Any $30 seater will load ammo as good as the match RCBS seating die. We use the RCBS product because we like the window. What they should be doing is selling interchangeable guts for the match level dies so that people would invest in their new seating dies entirely instead of not-at-all.
I like, in fact LOVE, the RCBS Comp seater dies. The entire idea of Vickers-Style dies is convenience and price and they are throwing both of those out the window! Sell the parts and they will grow this segment exponentially!
I sent RCBS an email asking if the MM die is engineered in a way where interchangeable parts are not possible or is this purely a management decision to not want to sell a lot of these (obviously).
Offer the parts and I buy it tomorrow RCBS. Compartmentalize this product and no one buys it.
** Just in case RCBS chimes in, I did redo my math after sending them an email.
The main feature of these dies is the window for dropping bullets in from the top. The difference between the standard comp die and the Gold Metal Match (and Match Master) is the floating stem that allows for better alignment, however, interchangeable guts are not available for the GMM (MM) dies and therefore you cannot switch the guts like with the regular comp seater die.
**I reload about 20 cartridges, I have two RCBS Comp seater die bodies and about 12 sets of "guts" to switch calibers. By my count, that comes out to about $500 I've paid to RCBS. If they were to offer the Match seater with interchangeable guts, I would gladly pay another $600 or so to upgrade. It would cost about $2,000 to buy all the match seater dies separately though, even accounting for cartridges that could use the same die.
Reloading is a market of people that don't want to get nickel and dimed... we want synergy and value. Any $30 seater will load ammo as good as the match RCBS seating die. We use the RCBS product because we like the window. What they should be doing is selling interchangeable guts for the match level dies so that people would invest in their new seating dies entirely instead of not-at-all.
I like, in fact LOVE, the RCBS Comp seater dies. The entire idea of Vickers-Style dies is convenience and price and they are throwing both of those out the window! Sell the parts and they will grow this segment exponentially!
I sent RCBS an email asking if the MM die is engineered in a way where interchangeable parts are not possible or is this purely a management decision to not want to sell a lot of these (obviously).
Offer the parts and I buy it tomorrow RCBS. Compartmentalize this product and no one buys it.
** Just in case RCBS chimes in, I did redo my math after sending them an email.
