Other than case prep, the major attention on bench rest and target loading dies is in seating the bullet. Often a very carefully sized inline bullet guide is used to guide the bullet into near perfect alignment with the case neck before any pressure is used to seat it. That alignment is held during the seating process resulting minimal bullet runout. The Hornady rifle seating dies I use have a similar sliding bullet guide. I'm fairly sure the Redding competition dies use an inline bullet seater also.
I have an old Lee collet rifle die set that has a crude version of an inline bullet guide and it loaded OK ammo.
The collet sizer die is the nice part of the set.
If you can't understand the importance of precise bullet alignment, then I can't help you. They don't all load the "same" quality of ammunition no matter how many times you repeat it. For general purpose and some target work, most die sets will produce acceptable results. When the requirements get tighter, then die tolerance, design, and construction play an increasing role in meeting tighter standards.
I have an old Lee collet rifle die set that has a crude version of an inline bullet guide and it loaded OK ammo.
The collet sizer die is the nice part of the set.
If you can't understand the importance of precise bullet alignment, then I can't help you. They don't all load the "same" quality of ammunition no matter how many times you repeat it. For general purpose and some target work, most die sets will produce acceptable results. When the requirements get tighter, then die tolerance, design, and construction play an increasing role in meeting tighter standards.
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