I bought a lot of items from Herter's over the years from the late 1950's until thy went out of business. I bought reloading tools & supplies, Fly tying supplies & tools, & numerous other items. I still have most of the tools & they still work as intended. I can't say as I ever bought anything from them I would call "Junk". I bought a #3 Super loading press from them & about the same time a co-worker bought a famous named press for about twice the money (A Pacific if memory serves me correctly). Mine would form 7x57 Mauser cases from once fired military .30-06 brass while his wouldn't come close to having that kind of strength plus he had to change the ram to change cases & all I had to do was swap shell holders. It was not long though until all the loading companies were using interchangeable shell holders & standardized on the RCBS style. I still miss them, wish they had been able to remain in buisness. One of the best deals I ever got from them though was on one occasion they apparently arranged to get a large batch of scope sights when Leupold was stremlining their reticle offerings. I purchased an M8-3X with a pointed post & cross hair for about 1/3 of the regular price. That was some 40+ years ago & it is still a very good scope. In my opinion they were a great company for a "Pore Boy" which I was.
in the mid 1960's I started working with a co-worker doing hot salt bluing & purchased all my salts from Herter's. I never had a moments problem with them. After I could no longer get them I ordered from Brownell's at a much higher price & never had as good results with their's.
