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    Rob Eubanks

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  1. Thank you all, I really do appreciate the advice and welcome any more. will be some time before I can order.
  2. Hello all, been a while since I have posted, glad to be back. I am building an 8.5" 9mm PCC, down to the buffer and spring... I want to use this for steel and carbine type matches, range fun and training. Suppressed too and loads range from 115 to 147. There are a ton of buffer options and I think I have it narrowed down to the kynshot/blitz hydraulics. I have been reviewing here/web a lot and I just cannot decide on the 5007 and the 5015HD. The 5007 states that it was "...designed to in PCC builds with 3.5" - 16" barrels, either suppressed or unsuppressed and with all common 9mm loads." The 5015HD just says it is for PCC over 8". Thinking 5007 and a Wilson flat wire. Then to solve the tube isse. I have carbine tubes but thinking and A5?? Would appreciate input from experience folks! Rob
  3. DOH! I tried to figure out "the one to get" and finally ordered. I literally just picked up my Gen 2 complete MOE lower yesterday..... Big deal??? Anything I should know??
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    Bad Brass...

    Thanks to all. I have a can that I toss "bad/odd brass" into, will scrap someday (if I fill the 5gal bucket!). How do you all "mark" your brass? I'll add that I screen brass by putting it in a shallow plastic storage box then dredging a shell holder thing from a box of 45 ammo. When full I inspect one end then clam shell with a second holder and check the other end. Deprime/Clean. The do it again and put on a bench to load, checking then. That sounds tedious but it really is quick.
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    Bad Brass...

    Trying to upload that picture of his brass. It was damaged considerably more than what is shown above. i think it is there now (on phone). His has a tear that is about a third around the case, half way up on the opposite side. Extractor was blown out.
  6. So it finally happened to someone near me - a failure of sorts. During a match a buddy had what some (most) are calling an out of battery discharge, some (few) say double charge, and the gun manufacturer says it was a bad case... A new extractor and the manufacturer says it is good to go. From what I saw and heard it was certainly not a double charge or a squib that was fired on - but I am certainly not an expert. By the looks (I tried to upload a photo but it was too large despite downsizing, I am sure I am the problem) it appeared to be an out of battery discharge. But that is not really the point here. I am not telling/asking this to bash a manufacturer of any of the components that might matter nor my buddy's anal retentive reloading skills. Stuff can and will happen, to some more than others. I am trying to use this post to gain ideas about how I want to change my brass management process. Specifically, I want to tighten my already selective process of culling cases. What I would like to know is: How do you all cull range pick up brass? Do you bother? How do you decide what is no good? Do you only reload "your brass"? Buy new / "once fired" and leave it lay? Buy new / "once fired" and mark it to recover only "your brass"? How do you mark it? I would appreciate your input, thanks in advance!
  7. I have been using the Harbor Freight 5lb vibratory cleaner for years. Use the coupon and if they are on sale they become very cost effective. I am sure there are a few boos out there but if you look at all of the vibratory cleaners you can see that there are likely only a couple shops in the far east that make these things for all the brands. Sure, they just use different color plastic and maybe different cover over the motors - but they are one in the same. They all work until they don't and some work a long time. If and when this one dies, I will get another.
  8. I agree. I also agree with Hozzie, would not sell mine.
  9. ... but there are more than a 'few' with a handful of 'set once and forget' good experiences with the LnL AP, so I'd like to understand why/how/where your experience was different? Aye! I have owned and/or used more than a few presses over the years and if aliens steal the LNL AP, I would replace it with the same... Not a Dillon. OP - Get what makes you happy and please don't care what any of us think. Dillon makes good stuff but if you have gift certificates, the Hornady is a helluva machine. You are not "settling". Since you asked, just dropping the bullets into the bullet feed die is faster, the tubes (DIY or Hornady) more so - IMO. I have but would likely skip the case feeder, no matter the color of the press. I cant stand the noise and feeding a case is no biggie. The Inline mounts do come in different heights, so mind the spent primer tube length when you order (can't help - mine is on a bench). No idea if the Pacific and Hornady hole patterns match. The light strip kits are good but I bought the Hornady one before I knew of the Inline - for half the price, I would buy the Hornady again - there is also the DIY option, all the parts are cheap and on Amazon, elsewhere. This applies to any press: know how it works, understand how it works, keep it clean, check that what needs to be tight is tight, what needs to be loose is loose, and what needs to be lubed is lubed. Isn't it cute how the Dillon folks like to come into the "Non-Dillon Reloading Equipment" forum and spill their kool-aid...
  10. If you are referring to me, I can assure you that I was NOT trolling. I was truly interested and considering other presses. I even came close to buying the Dillon 650 as it was recommended by most people. In the end I went with what I knew and because I had some conversions and other equipment that was specific to the 550. I did buy an RCBS Partner press for depriming 223 brass and to size cast bullets, However, I am not able to get shell holders in the ram, so don't know what the problem is. I also kind of accidentally bought a Rock Chucker Supreme when I bid on one and actually won it, not expecting to win. It is to be delivered probably tomorrow. I hope shell holders fit it as I am getting ready to cast bullets and will need to size them. No sir. I was not referring to you. That is odd about the Partner press ram. I "hate it" when I accidently buy stuff! Glad to hear that the Rock Chucker helped you and that RCBS is fixing the Partner for you.
  11. I wanted to do something pretty much just like that with my press... I apologize but I can't help myself - is that a gas line leading to a gas water heater? With a pilot light?
  12. The shell holders on the Partner are the same (as I recall) as on the Rockchucker - you slide them in and out of the top of the ram, there is a clip spring to hold tension on it. The slot is on the "front" of the ram above the primer arm.
  13. Xtreme for me, get on the mailing list from their website.
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