Scratchthejeepguy

Was reloading more yesterday and the shellplate started to act up even more. I took a peek and found that the "Ring Indexer" had a crack in it. A call to Dillon and it's on its way. I also have a new "Case Insert Slide Spring" coming just to be safe.

I've had my 650XL for about 7 years now and have loaded many thousands of rounds with it. 9mm, 45, 300blk and 5.56. Today I was loading some 9mm and noticed sometimes on station 1 when the case drops onto the removable silver plate (that I think is called the "station locator") and then that black plastic "case insert slide" thing comes from behind and pushes it into the shell plate, sometimes either the case doesn't go all the way in for some reason, or it goes in all the way, but backs out just a touch. Enough so that when I pull the handle down and it raises the platform up, the brass will hit the bottom of the resizing die, and not allow the case to go inside it. I know it's kind of hard to understand so I included some pictures of what's Happening. It doesn't happen all the time, it happens about once every 50 or so rounds, and it's super easy to notice and fix. I just take my right pointer finger and push the case in Just a bit and all is good. But it's getting annoying and I'm wondering if there's something I can do to stop it from happening. Does this happen to anyone else ever? I've tried to watch carefully to actually see what is happening so I can fix the problem, but it happens so sporadic and seldom that I can never actually see it happen.

In for the responses.... Mine has a fixed front wheel and it can sometimes get hard to steer. Interested to hear what someone who has had both says too.

Found a pic. Posting to give someone ideas...

Nice cart!

I've seen two of them where they pulled the small tires off and put lawn tractor tires on them. I never got pics of them though...

Does anyone have any good pics of a 3 gun cart made from a shopping cart? Yours or not...

Thanks everybody, I guess it's really up to the stage designer, makes sense.

Setting up a 3 gun practice stage and have a quick question... Lets say the stage calls for an empty shotgun start, can the matchsaver have a shell in it?

So imagine you have 5 targets setup at the target line. Each target would be numbered 1-5. You have your buddy call out random numbers. "two!" "three, one!" "five, four, one!" "four!" "three, five, two!" "one, five!" etc... Sounds great, probably familiar as it's a common drill. But what if you were alone. Is there an app that you could input variables like: Number of targets? (5 in this case) Targets per set? (up to 3 in this case) Randomize set amount? (yes in this case) Pause between sets? (3 seconds) Hit start, set your phone down, and it would audibly call out random numbers for you. Anyone know if anything like this is available yet? Seems like it could be fairly easy to do. Wonder how easy it is to actually make an app....?

I think that the cases are too large, below the line where they get resized. If I turn the cases around the rim won't go into the case gauge backwards. It will just about go in, but not quite. But if I twist the case as I try pushing it in, it will go past the rim but still get hung up on the lower body of the case. just about the lower 1/16-1/8" of it. It still needs to be twisted to go in, but it will go in. Once it's in, if I give it a couple twists, now it's completely fine. I think that since the FLSD die doesn't go "all" the way down to the bottom of the case, that's the part that is still a little large. I've decided to not worry about it since: 1. they seem to chamber, fire, extract and eject completely fine. 2. If I were checking length like a lot of people do with just a flat piece of plastic or steel case length gauge, or a set of calipers, I'd never notice it anyways.

I know that these are all from AR15's. I know that they do chamber easily in all of my rifles. I know that all eject fine. I know the rim never goes inside the chamber. I know that the body, neck, mouth, and OAL is to spec. I know that if I twist them when trying to insert them backwards in the gauge, they fit. I know that if I take a little bit of sandpaper to the rim, they fit. I know I can't see anything physically wrong with these cases. I also know some people don't use a case gauge that you insert the cases in... like my Wilson, they just use one of those plastic card types of OAL gauges, or a set of calipers, and if they did, they would never see this problem. With that being said... would these be fine to load and shoot the way they are, since the rim is only there for extraction and ejection duties?

I have also tried to take the "small" cases that fit normally, then run them through the FL trim die to see if they get too big, but they don't, They stay the same size.

I am wet tumbling them with no pins first, for an hour, just soap to clean them off, then I run them through my "process" tool head, which has a universal decapping die in station one, a Swage-it deswager in station two, and the 1500 with the full length sizing die in station four. Then I wet tumble them with SS pins, for 2 1/2 hours, let them dry, then run them through the final loading toolhead where I prime, charge, seat, and crimp them.

I'm having a problem loading my .223 loads and I'm not sure why... For a little background, I started out with a Lee SS press about 5-6 years ago, but quickly moved on to a Dillon XL650. I've loaded maybe 50K of handgun ammo on it and probably 10K of .223 ammo on it. I use my SS press for precision rifle. I just recently decided to get a Dillon 1500 trimmer and do my .223 brass prep on a dedicated toolhead for it, then switching toolheads and doing the prime, charge, seat, and crimp process next. I bought the Dillon .223 trim/sizing die for the 1500 and believe I have it set up correctly. I first adjusted the die to do a full length size on the tumbled, lubed cases with the trimmer not installed, and checked them with my case gauge. Everything was fine. Then I added the 1500 trimmer and adjusted it to trim at the correct height. All was good and I loaded a little over 500 rounds with that setup, then life got in the way, and I had to wait about a week to start up again and finish up my large batch. Here's where I encountered the problem... For some reason, most of my cases (which have already been wet tumbled and lubed) now are not going all the way into my Wilson case gauge after resizing. Some of them go all the way in, like this: And if I turn the case around and try to fit it in backwards, it goes all the way in, like this: But most of them, only go in about this much, which is about .027 shy of all the way in: And if I turn them around, and try to insert them backwards, it's just the rim of the case that doesn't want to go in all the way, like this: These cases chamber in all my rifles fine, they extract and eject fine too. The only thing I did differently was to wait a few days to start back up again. I even tried using my old Lee FLS die that I use to use, on my SS press that is still set up on a quick release insert. When I try to FLS them with that die and press, they still don't go in all the way. I have tried cleaning and lubing the case gauge too. The headstamps are mixed, but there's no rhyme or reason as to which ones are good or not. For some reason the first batch of 500 all drop easily into the case gauge still, but most of these do not. I started out with about 1500 empty cases. They were either fired from my own rifles and may or may not have been reloaded multiple times, or they were OFB picked up from my personal range, or a range that I shoot 3 gun at last summer. I tumbled the entire batch of about 1500, then let them all dry, and lubed them. Then I took about 500 of them and loaded them with no problems. Any ideas as to why most of this brass is not going in all the way?