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Finally read the FAQs

Finally read the FAQs (3/11)

  1. UniqueTek makes a 1.5x and 2x hopper which seems to be much better. I leave my powder in there all the time.
  2. Try the Cb1100 (aka waa12sl) pink wad. It should work better and provide a taller component stack up and result in a better crimp. The CB-1118 is intended for 1 1/8oz loads.
  3. This will more than likely eliminate any primer drop/feed issues that you may have with the SL900. Looks like I'm not the only one who ran into this issue. Surprised Dillon hasn't addressed it. Maybe it was an isolated production issue. As I mentioned in the video, I got my SL900 in Dec 2012.
  4. Clays isn't a diversion for me...it has become my primary shooting sport. I shoot sporting clays, skeet, trap, wobble trap and 5-stand. I enjoy all of it.
  5. SteveZ

    New to clays

    That's one big things that caused burnout for me after nearly 20 years of IPSC shooting...standing around for 5 hours to shoot for 2 minutes.
  6. Bingo! And that just one of the reasons I got the SL900. Glad to hear it's working right for you now Eric.
  7. Let me know how the new arm works when you get it. It should fix the problem.
  8. 1/8" of movement is not right. If mine moved more than 1/32" I'd be surprised. Just to make sure we are talking about the same movement...if I took the arm and tried to push it toward the BACK of the press or pull it toward the FRONT of the press, it might move 1/32". If you want to see what I'm talking about , I could skype you or FaceTime if you've got an iPhone.
  9. Hi ya Will! Eric, it looks like your trying to shove a 12ga wad in a 20ga hull :-/ as an experiment, flare the mouth of the hull so it's almost round at station 2 ( you'll probably have to increase your precrimp depth to counter the excessive flare) and see what happens. It's odd that Winchester hulls are OK but Rem GCs aren't. Like Will suggested, maybe those wads just don't work with Rem GC/STS. I just checked my fore/aft movement of my wad guide arm and there is very LITTLE movement. If yours is loose, that might be the problem. You may want to give Dillon a call and get a new one.
  10. Hi Eric. Two thoughts, first make sure the wad guide arm is centered correctly...there is a small centering screw that you can adjust to accomplish this. I adjust mine until the guide is centered in the tool head. Second, you might want to "flare" the hull more back at station 2 when it drops powder. I was recently reloading some 6 pointer 12ga hulls and had to do this so the wads wouldn't catch the hull at station 3.
  11. I've got both. Since everyone else has discussed the micrometer adjuster, I'll talk about the powder baffle. I recently ordered the 2x powder hopper for my Dillon SL900 (see Powerfactor Show episode #157 for a review) and at the time hadn't had a chance to measure drop variances using the baffle. Since then, on two different occasions, I measured successive powder drops and found that it threw the exact same amount for at least 5 successive drops using Hodgdon Clays powder. So I'll call it better than +/- 0.1 gr which is the resolution of my scale. I don't have the micrometer adjuster installed on the SL900 (it's on my 550b).
  12. I'm shooting nearly the same thing as Eric. I shoot 7/8oz of 8s @ 1220 fps for trap and sporting clays and 3/4oz of 9s @ 1220 fps for skeet and they break clays just fine.
  13. I've reloaded the AA-HS hull using the CB-1000 wad and 7/8oz and had good luck reloading them on my SL900.
  14. I've never used anything but new shot in my SL900 so I can't offer much advice but if this shot has been sitting around for years, I wonder if it got damp and may have some surface oxidation and is clumping together?
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