Canuck223

The only difference AFAIK is the position of the mounting bracket. Since the 650 toolhead is fixed, it's relatively easy to place. The 1050 might require a little guess and adjustment.

Not to take the wind out of CasePro's sales, but I too would like to see Dillon make a roll sizer.

If I understand the issue, if Dillon was to go this route, they would have two options. 1) Set up a seperate company (a la Dillon Aero) 2) Abandon all foreign sales. Dillon sells machines that the Dept of State consider hobby equipment. If they shipped them with integrated bullet feeders and automatic drive systems, that classification would change. If that happened, every product they shipped out of country would require DofS approval.

I load using a 1050, and I've never had a problem with S&B. I am also using S&B primers which run through my Dillon primer tube feeded as good as Federal. Since I don't hear much about S&B primers out of the States, I'm assuming they are not available?

The ideal situation is as described above, the RO/CRO spells out what awaits him if he keeps flapping his pie hole. Failing that, bring a large chocolate chip cookie and a bag full of softballs to the next match. Offer him the cookie, and tell him that if that doesn't keep his mouth busy, the softballs will....

OK, new pawl installed, 2000 cycles and not one hiccup. Yep, the pivot hole was stretched beyond oval. I also discovered that the toolhead spring that I had replaced was far more tired than I realized. I suspect that might have had a hand in the problem.

At that volume, buy yourself the 1050 and scrounge a few 5 gallon pails of brass.

I have a suspicion that might be the case. In playing with the part, the indexing arm looks brand new, but the pawl seems to have an oval hole as I get more than just simple rotation around the pin.

Holy Heck! What a PITA!!! I see what you mean. This friggen pin just doesn't want to budge. I have to get a new tapered point starter punch, as my current pin starter just ain't cutting the mustard.

I used to be the range flake. I'd forget or ignore the reality and show up hoping the host range had food available. Last year I took stock of my life and diet and decided I wasn't prepared to be this fat and decrepid at this age. I cut out the Coke, fast food, and tried damn hard to cut most of the excess carbs from my diet. I tried to work within a 2000 calorie budget. I work 3 minutes from home, and work steady days. Keeping to a diet during the week wasn't a problem. The big question was what to do at the range. It's not like random acts of weirdness are beyond me, but bringing a propane stove and fry pan seemed a bit over the top. I settled on simple, portable things. Bottled water instead of Coke. Peanut or almond granola bars for a bit of carbs and fats. A package of sliced roast chicken or turkey, rolled and bagged into quick grab and go portions. A few small tupperware containers with washed seedless grapes. A few ripe bananas. It all fits into a small cooler. The cooler fits under my folding range chair. When not patching or shooting, I nibble constantly.

Well, you'll still be touching the cases a whole bunch, but you can save a few steps. 1) polish 2) lube 3) size/swage/trim 4) polish/delube 5) load My suggestion is two toolheads. (plus your .40 S&W) 1) Dillon Carbide sizer station 2, RT1200 trimmer station 6 or 7 (Just brass processing) 2) Lee collet die with hand polished undersized mandrel (for clearing media from flash hole) station 2.

+1 In my case it was neck pain. I get a pinched nerve once and a while, and loading was nearly impossible. I love the PW. I probably use it wrong according to most people. I process cases in bulk. I tend to sized, deprime,and swage by the 5 gallon pail. When I have time, I will pay a bit more attention and prime the processed cases. When it's time to load live ammo, my attention is rarely diverted from watching case as it leaves the powder measure, and the bullet feeding into the case.

How many years do you intend to reload? How much is your time worth? How long are you willing to compromise with good equipment, when you know there is better that you can afford? In my mind, it's less a question of when to switch, than when to stop rationalizing the choice not to upgrade.

Don't panic about slots. AFAIK, each member region with 2000 or more members get the same number of spots, and smaller regions have proportionally less. Realisticly, we're not state sponsored Olympians. We're (aside from a few pro's) working from our own wallets and vacation schedules. Many of the larger regions will not use all the slots they are assigned. Some (like Canada) may ask for more.

I'd love to know what regions bid for the 2014 Worlds. It will be an exciting few years...

I have a Mr. Bullet Feeder. It was made right around the time Rik started shipping them. To date, I've had two misfeeds with it. One was clearly a defective bullet. The second was probably due to overloading the hopper. Aside from that, it just purrs like a kitten with no need to adjust or fiddle with it. I've never had the need for the powder check die, so it's not been missed.

So I got a call to trouble shoot a guys 1050, specificly crushed and missing primers. I found a few things he could do to smooth up the process. He had Henning size die that was sucking primers back in, causing chaos at the swager and a cascade of fail. We addressed those issues, One thing I noticed was his bench was fairly light and not fastened to the floor or wall, nor was it likely to be in the future. I suggested re-enforcing the top and loading it up with all the weight it could take to reduce shaking. Anyone else experience movement induced problems with a 1050??

I've had two 1050's, but never loaded .38 special on either until today. I believe the adaptor kit includes the medium casefeed slide, and I know the small size is just a bit too small. However, I'm getting indexing problems and jams as the medium adapter seems to be a little too generous. I'm tempted to buy a spare small adapter and mill it out to clear the rims. Anyone else find this problem or have a solution?

Welcome. Biggest regret of my life is not selling a kidney and attending the Worlds in SA. What part of the country do you come from? Is the permit renewal situation improved?

You'll need to adjust your seating die and powder die, but all you really need to buy is the 9mm sizing die. The rest of your tooling should be good to go.

Alan, The tipping you are describing, and the odd shape to the tip of the primer punch sounds like my own experience. The retained primer running through the swager may be a clue. I wonder if you didn't accidently damage the primer seating punch while trying to seat a primer in a case that still had one swaged up into the pocket. As I said before, my own primer probles sounded very much like your own, and were fixed with a new punch. In my case, the primer issue was hard to figure out because it was usually in a cascade of fail.... One case has a primer tipped, leaving debris on the slide. Next primer isn't sitting flush in the slide, and flips up and out of the slide. When I become aware because of the primer dropping out the back or tying up the press, I have a munched primer, an empty pocket spilling powder, and a bunch of debris to clean up. Chicken, meet egg.

That was my thinking as well. It has the added benefit of being somewhat scalable for grip size.

I used to get that problem. I tried much of the advice here to trouble shoot the problem. Besides crushed primers I was getting some that seemed to be in at a slight angle. I tore everything apart and finally found something that didn't look right. The tip of the primer seating punch looked chipped. It looked like somehow it had been in the up position as the slide retracted and caught the punch. I replaced it, and all was well.

S&B primers are somewhat new up here. The price is fantastic and the companys other products have a reputation for quality, so I figured they were worth the risk. Being a little OCD, I tend to process my brass before I get to loading it. So far my impression is good. The packaging is nice. The primers feed through my primer tube filler just as good as Federals. They feed well, perfectly in fact through my 1050. As far as sensitivity and how hot they are, well I haven't got to that point yet. My gun lights off everything, so I'm not worried about the primers being hard. Anyone notice if they seem hotter or lighter than Federal small pistol?

Fire me an e-mail and I'll get the info to her. Sadly, we lost Terry a few years ago.