Cherryriver

Yeah, that's what I'm doing now, with 25-round tube added. It's the collator I'm after, and there's one looking at me...

Thank you for your suggestion, but I decline to sell the miserable thing to an innocent. We have several 550s and an SDB to go with the 650 I'm trying to bulletfeed. They all have a place and work to do.

In a match? Been years. With a tenderloin? I'll take it.

Yeah, I was planning to butcher the casefeeder collator. I guess I was just hoping to find someone else had done it first and gotten the mistakes out of the way. I am doodling around with the tuber ones but that dang casefeeder is just sitting there across the room snerking and my revenge would be to put it to good use. I mean, it's got a motor for heavens' sake.

" you could make her sandwiches " She's a chef. Of nearly 30 years' experience. I don't make much food. I just make the coffee, wash dishes and get out of the way. I can be described as "unusually well-fed". Tenderloin filet tacos on flame-blackened tortillas with grilled asparagus... for a throw-together lunch. So you can see why I want to improve my loading speed. To get back upstairs to dinner. This may be veering off-topic.

Perhaps I need to explain more completely: it's she who is the sponsored, hotshot shooter with the fancy jersey and spiffy Canyon Creek guns, not me. I am but a cog in the wheel of USPSA life. I know my place.

" Maybe sell the case feeder and use that money towards a bullet feeder " I long ago decided not to sell the infernal thing to anyone not deserving of punishment. "Simple solution: Have the "Missus" load ammo. " Which would remove a lot of other obligations for me. Like breathing.

Okay, I will submit possibly the dumbest inquiry of the week. I have a 550 casefeeder that I just plain parked on a shelf and moved on from. I also have a nice 650 that needs a bulletfeeder. Yes, the Mr. Bulletfeeder is excellent and I should get one. But Mr. Accountant says no Mr. Bulletfeeder for me. I can goof together a bullet dropper but the power collator is more than I feel like fabricating. Then, what did my wandering eye espy but the dust-collecting 550 casefeeder. Say, that's a collator there. Can it be modified to feed bullets into a dropper? So: has anyone been nutty enough to do this? Or has suggestions on how to do so? I understand there are numerous YouTube essays on how to make one from scratch, and that's all good, but if there's a shortcut, I would sure like to hear it. My old carpenter's hands just won't let me hand-seat more than about 300-400 bullets at a time without resorting to an anti-inflammatory and The Missus can empty .40 cases much more quickly than I can refill them. So, it's medical necessity. Right.

I acquired an orphaned 550 feeder and gave it a couple-three pretty serious tries. Yes, it will mostly feed cases. But really a pain and gets in the way. I actually had a misfeed, kept moving the handle, and broke off the "platform" that screws to the underside of the presses' platform. It's a $120 part but Dillon sent me a new one. I should be fairly mechanical. I owned and operated a cabinet shop with all kinds of machinery and more than a few other things, but the 550 casefeeder beat me. Here's what I learned: my actual, overall reloading speed did not change for the better. If I could manage 400 rounds per hour without it, I couldn't quite achieve that rate with the feeder, counting in the time required for setup, tuning, fixing, retuning, clearing jams, and all the rest. The clock made the call for me.

Well, this is an Internet forum, so that's inevitable. But seriously, at the IDPA matches and other get-togethers I've experienced since the announcement, the opposition is not only strong, it's loud. Pretty close to 100% of the shooters I've spoken to, in our club and other area ones, are strongly against it. In fact, I can't recall a single favorable comment at all, in a sampling of several dozen. So, I'd say the rule is unpopular, at least in the three-state area where we are.

I telephoned HQ in early February to ask and was told that the change definitely won't happen this year, and will next. But maybe not then, either. So we stayed affiliated for another year.

Went two seasons plus with 320 and got results as you describe. Very satisfactory. Then I goofed around with 310 (and 200gr SnSs) and hit on a load that has so little recoil it makes people giggle when they shoot it, and makes almost no noise. Truly weird. But excellent extreme spread on the chrono. 3.9gr gave about 835fps in our slowest barrel, 855 with a faster 5". No chrono results yet for the 6" guns.

BE-86 makes excellent clone loads (of self-defense loads) in 9x19 and .38 Super, but hasn't given a good gamer .40 load for us. Referring to .38, my very old Commander with a slow barrel (DPX 125s only go 1280fps) will put out SnS 125 RNs close to 1300fps with a full charge of BE-86 (6.6gr, if memory serves).

Using the fast stuff is about recoil management. Try it side-by-side. It can be eye-opening.

"Seems like some people on here just want to kill having fun. (ie shooting PCC)" I run two large USPSA programs, and put in an easy 300+ hours a years doing so, not even counting working majors, other disciplines, events, and club Board duties that may be related. I am indeed skeptical of PCC Division, and have yet to be convinced it's a good idea, yes. Accuse me of anything you like, but wanting to kill having fun probably won't be a sustainable charge.