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Old 09-18-2008, 04:07 PM
iiranger iiranger is offline
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While I can and will google Mr. Detsch, it would be so much easier if you just mentioned contact info. Please. Thank you. With my fat fingers sometimes I misspell things... like that. thank you.

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This is the 19th year that I have been using Detsch bullet dies. I have 1 set of .22 caliber set of dies and 2 sets of 6mm. They have given me very good and consistant results. I won the IBS 3-Gun nationals in 2000 with Clarence Detsch's dies, and Dave recently made me a new 6mm pointer die. Since using this die, I have attended 3 IBS matches this year, and It has done very well Including 1st and 2nd place at the New York State Championships and total of 11 trophies in that one match alone; We also were the only two using my bullets. I cannot say enough good things about Dave's die making ability. He is very good to work with. I also highly recommend that you guys use Dave for converting your presses to bullet making. He is the best and very reasonably priced.
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Old 09-19-2008, 01:08 AM
457ciSBC 457ciSBC is offline
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While I can and will google Mr. Detsch, it would be so much easier if you just mentioned contact info. Please. Thank you. With my fat fingers sometimes I misspell things... like that. thank you.
If you go back a several postings I listed his contact info, but better than that the man himself(diemaker) responded.
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Old 09-29-2008, 12:02 AM
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Detsch Custom Bullet Dies
350 West Creek Road
Saint Marys, PA 15857
Phone: 814-834-3035
Cell: 814-594-2032
E-mail: david@diemaker.us

I talked with Dave yesterday on the phone (which he prefers over computer BTW) and not only is he planning on making the final lap on my point-up die to morrow, he's just waiting for my three new Redding presses to arrive to set up for swaging, which puts him not only on schedule for his estimate of 6 weeks for my order, but he may even be ahead of that. I couldn't be happier, and after reading Jason Coye's glowing comments a few posts back, feel great about it. In fact, I've decided to bite the bullet (pun intended) and add some more to my order. I now will be able to make 6mm match grade bullets with either a flat base or a great .062" 14 degree ultra boat tail base, and any weight (restricted by J4s) from 66gr through 110gr or so, with the match- winning 6/9 double radius ogive. I'll probably only market a few designs to start with, but I should be able to actually make about anything I want in 6mm with all this equipment!

Bughole
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Old 10-09-2008, 03:15 AM
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Dave estimated it would take him 6 weeks to fill my order. It actually took him 4 weeks!!!!! I drove from my home in Indiana to his in Pennsylvania to meet him, pick up my equipment, and learn several very helpful tips and tricks that should improve my products. We made a handful of bullets start to finish and put them on his concentricity guage. They came out dead nuts perfect! I'll be painting the three steel bases he also built me for the new Redding presses, mounting them to my bench and adding the counters and will take a few pictures when it's all set up (along with bullet pictures) and will post here if anyone wants to see. These bases will lay the presses back on my bench on a 20 degree angle which will help the entire process. In addition to the carbide dies Dave made me producing perfectly concentric bullets, I will mention that they are so smooth that almost no swage lube is needed, so I will start out using 3.0 grains of swage lube per 1000 J4s rather than the 7.5 grains I was planning on using. I may need to make some adjustments to that after making some. There is one other point I should make about his work. Dave has a unique method of manufacturing his punches which I understand other bullet die makers do not do. I'm not a tool and die man so won't attempt to be specific, however the net result is this: both the top and bottom surfaces of each punch are EXACTLY perpendicular to the center line of the punch, and the bottom line is that the base of the bullet is EXACTLY perpendicular with the center line of the bullet. Apparently other maker's punches just can't assure this simply because of how they make them. I am ecstatic about the quality of the three presses and four dies (squirt, flat seat, boattail seat, and point-up) and the responding punches Dave made me, and am extremely impressed that he produced all this in only one month! My hat is off to Dave Detsch Custom Bullet Dies!!!!!!!!!
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Old 10-08-2010, 01:55 AM
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Are you still making the bullet boards. I have a set of the ones your dad made.

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Old 02-23-2012, 07:40 PM
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It's been a while since I last posted here, so I thought I'd make a few comments. I chose to buy 6mm dies from Dave Detsch in 2008. I have now bought several from him and have more I just ordered. I make 6mm bullets with 6/9 dual radius ogive with either flat base or short boat tail in 10 weights. I will make the same number with an 8 ogive when I get my dies. I make hunting VLDs with a 15 tangent ogive in 8 weights, and target VLDs with thick wall J4s in 6 weights. I have ordered 6.5mm dies and plan to build those in half a dozen sizes. That is 60 bullet designs! I actually started my business January 2009 as it took a while to gather everything. I made and sold 100,000 bullets my first year. I moved from Indiana to Arizona half way through 2010 and was busy finding a new house etc. so only had a half year to make bullets. I made and sold 100,000 in 2010. I moved from Arizona to Nevada half way through 2011 which only gave me a half year for my business again but I made and sold 100,000 bullets in 2011. So that's 300,000 bullets made in Dave's dies in three years and I have customers in 49 states and going through a licensed exporter, have customers in 12 countries. They shoot my bullets locally, in state competitions, nationally and in the World Federation. My bullets are showing up in the equipment lists of some major matches. Sure, I figure my attention to detail and good swaging technique contribute to this, but absolutely NONE of my success so far would be possible without the dead nuts perfect carbide dies and the other hardware I've gotten from Dave Detsch! Hopefully we will stop moving around now and I can actually put 12 months together and see what develops. BTW, I have not advertised anywhere even once. Simply word of mouth from very satisfied customers. I appreciate all the help I got from this site while getting started!

Bughole

Precision Ballistics LLC
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Old 02-23-2012, 09:09 PM
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Bughole;

If you are this impatient about your tooling, I doubt you will swage any bullets good enough to support a business.... Let us know when you get your new order in and we will see how your time frame worked out.

Richards presses are made one at a time by a custom Die & tooling expert (Richard). Where are your new ordered presses made?? China ?

Hmmm... I'm thinking 300K bullets is good enough to support a business.
Hows that crow tasting?

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