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  1. Don't do it. A 650 will feel like a giant step backwards compared to your 1050. 650 is a fussy press with lots of plastic parts and a tendency to spill primers on the floor (unless you watch the primer chute like a hawk). Save yourself the aggravation and either get another 1050 or the large-primer conversion with a spare toolhead. LT
  2. My 2¢, based on ~30 years of handloading, gun-store sales and commercial reloading experience: 1. Supply and demand: I've never had a hobby/amateur reloader asking for the automated primer feed 2. Speed: the automated primer feeders are an order of magnitude faster than the reloading machines, including the commercial ones. So, fitting one to an amateur-grade press would require sensors and cut-offs and other safety features. 3. Safety: Priming is the only dangerous step in loading/reloading the ammunition. Automating it removes the safety margin provided by the limited capacity of the primer tube, and the manual step of primer tube filling. 4. Quality: Even the fancy automatic primer feeders feed them upside-down once in a while. The only primer feeders that work 100% of the time, in my experience, are the ones on high-speed commercial machines such as Manuhrins or Lake City. 5. Price: the good-quality primer feeders, eg. M&A, cost more than the hobby-grade presses. 6. Noise and vibration: The automatic machines with a primer feed make quite a racket. Even the small ones, eg. a Camdex or an Ammoload, will rattle the whole house. LT
  3. I happen to have all 3 brands of LPPs on the bench at the moment, and a high precision bench micrometer. I sampled 5 of each brand, and was amazed by the uniformity within brands. Every CCI primer miked to .2103, Federals were uniform at .2105 +/- 0.0002, and Winchesters at .2089 +/- 0.0003 So, my lot of Winchester LPPs is ever so sligthly smaller than the other brands. I didn't see any difference in seating effort. I think the diameter difference is moot. LT
  4. Having been an RO at a public range for ~20 years, I can say that the proportion of shooters who keep the brass is small. As this is THE forum for dedicated shooters, we all pretty much have to reload in order to train and compete. So, picking up the brass is a no-brainer. For the vast majority of shooters however, reloading is of no concern. So, the attitude of the .223 kids does not surprise me. It's the norm, really.
  5. I've experimented with SS109 bullets and 4895. My load was: 25.0gr IMR-4895 under new commercial SS109 bullets at 2.250" COL, using CCI mil-spec primers (not CCI 400!). The cases were LC or somesuch military. This was a full-power accurate load, giving me ~2750 FPS from a 1:7 20" AR. I would start at 24gr, and work up. I recommend against CCI400 primers in 223 - they are too thin and better suited for low pressure rifle calibers eg. 22 Hornet, or high pressure pistol calibers (I use them for 38SC and 357 Mag). I ruptured plenty of CCI400s in 223 before learning my lesson.
  6. Aha! You have a Super 1050, not a 1050. They are very different - the ol' 1050 doesn't use the removable needle bearing cartridges to support the the crankshaft, and doesn't need a retainer cap. I can't offer the specific advise for the Super 1050 due to lack of experience with that model, but looking at the parts diagram I think the Loctite would help. Use the blue kind, not the green, red or black Loctite, and degrease the bolt 13685 beforehand. Good luck! LT
  7. There's no screw on the bottom left of a 1050 (unless you count the supports for the casefeeder), nor is there an end-cap, nor is there anything threaded into the crankshafts on any of my 1050s. I'm puzzled, and would appreciate a picture.
  8. The BEST chrono is the one you have and know how to use. Same as with anything else BEST. End of sermon... I've been a big fan of Oehlers, and have models 33 and 35P with several sets of rails and indoor illuminators. I also have a PACT combo timer/chrono - it's a great timer, and a Chrony - cheap junk. Oehler is the way to go, and is back in production after several years absence.
  9. I load both, and the two calibers are not even remotely similar. They use different diameter bullets (.308 for -06, nominally .311 for -54R but can be all over the place depending on the rifle's origin and age), different shellplates, the case capacity is different. 30-06 is significantly more powerful, and does better with slower powders in my experience. 7.62x54R rim size is unique, but similar enough to 45-70 for Dillon to specify "G" size for both. To answer the thread topic, I use Lee dies for 7.62x54R and Redding for 30-06 - with good accuracy. I prefer to load the rifle rounds on a single-station press.
  10. You will be good if you use a circuit that does not have anything attached that needs the high starting current, eg. 1-phase AC motors, fluorescent lights, AC, a fridge. The fluorescent lights with the old-style magnetic ballasts are known to cause interference, the ones with newer electronic ballasts are much better. If you must share a circuit, consider replacing the ballasts. The electronic ones use less power, and eliminate the flicker and hum.
  11. I have the Hornady die on order, and will try this. My RL1000 has a spare station, I will see if I can shoehorn the Lee adapter in there.
  12. If you measure the amount of belling after every station, you will pinpoint the offender. If the bullets drop right in after resizing, you might have a broken die. Some makes of dies, including Dillon, have a carbide sizing insert at the mouth of the die. Carbide is hard, but fragile, and can crack if the sizing die is crushed against the shellplate. Had that happen. LT
  13. I've "upgraded" one of my old-style powder bar retractors to the new failsafe mechanism a couple of years ago. Dillon offered it for free with some warranty work I needed. I did not like the loud clank and the violent shake of the spring-loaded retractor. The "upgraded" measure sits in the spares bin now.
  14. They are all same, and I tried every brand out there. When you seat and crimp together, you will get variations in COL, neck tension and shape of crimp. Crimping and seating separately produces better results, and that's why Dillons have the extra stations. I use a GSI bullet feeder, and don't have to sacrifice the powder check.
  15. My highly opinionated opinions about the gun rags, based on nothing other than ~35 years of reading all and sundry: G&A - chewing tobacco ads Guns & American Handgunner - high production values, decent articles, nice gun porn (Ichi Nagata set the standard for what the gun pictures should look like decades ago). Handloader - deteriorated tremendously over the last 15 years. They used to publish science-grade articles, but now seem to cater to the G&A crowd. Still, a decent read. Rifle - see Handloader. Shooting Times - see G&A TAR / Precision Shooting - a bunch of old guys complaining about the good old days gone. Pistolero / Handgun Tests - my kind of magazine, but sadly out of print for 25 years MGN/SAR - deteriorating slowly but steadily, now gone to quarterly edition due to inability to fill the monthly copy, and due to the chairborne commando crowd getting their news from ARFCOM Front Sight - no hard information, but no chewing tobacco ads. Notice for the On-topic Police: All of the above magazines are multi-gun relevant, except for the Handloader.
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