I recently contacted C&H4D to ask about .40-50SS dies and after hearing horror stories of 2 year waits from numerous sources, I expected to hear something similar. Instead I was told they had dies in the making, and were sending them out for heat treating. Estimated 6-8 weeks before they would be ready and they were accepting back orders! I gave them my contact info as that's all they required to get on their list. That was last week, and today I got notified the dies were ready to be shipped and I sent them payment!
In all the years I've dealt with C&H4D I've never waited more than 2 weeks, and often was told oddball die sets would be shipped out in 72 hours. So this is actually my longest wait, and still way faster than their estimate! I was in no big hurry, but it is great to get them so quickly!

C&H4D has never told me my dies were ready and not delivered within 48 hours of payment. And it wasn't "the next day" it was the next week. I doubt the nice lady who answers their phone is privy to exact dates when she originally told me 6-8 weeks. Probably what she'd been told when they went for heat treating, and it didn't get updated until they returned.
I've bought a lot of dies from them, and usually got them within days, and at the same period had people tell me the wait time was a yea or two. My .50-140 dies were here 3 days after I paid for them.

I think they had some transition issues after Dave passed away? I've done business with them recently and everything was A1

Babydriver wrote on Mar 10^th, 2026 at 8:44pm:



Waiting for years. Must not have much demand.

When I got my 30-30 Wesson Ballard, I searched for a set of dies for a while and C&H4D listed them as being on back order.  I finally decided to get on the list for a set and when I called, the lady said to hold for a minute and when she came back on she said she had found a set in the back.   

Jack