“OH
So, either you bought the usual calibers or paid more for the limited runs.”
No, in the Big Inning RCBS sold their dies and packaged them in fiber boxes that were lime green, there were two different sizes, the small box was used for two die sets, the larger box was used for 3 die pistol/straight wall cases, then the lime color box was replaced with the dark green/Hunters green fiber box, after the dark green came light green plastic, by the time plastic appeared RCBS started stamping dies with the year of manufacturing. again, RCBS does not have code conversion for date of manufacturing.
The boxes were one box fits all, they used rubber ink type stamps to identify contents. A friend was going to load a few hundred 300 Win Mags when he realized he did not have the reloading dies, so, I grabbed a set and took them to him, when I got there he explained to me he had a die he could not identify or remember what it fit, it was in the hunter green fiber box, Anyhow, I explained to him his die was a small base 300 Win Mag die stamped 300 BAR, he gave me the die and he kept the box, I do not believe the BAR dies came in fiber boxes, but for color I would like to have added the green box.
F. Guffey
