M-Bear

It is a glock. clean it once a year and shoot it. Only one of my four glocks have ever seen factory ammo. They all have stock barrels.

I will be the dissenter here. I had a 550 sold it and got the 650. Now the 650 is a heck of a press and it will almost load ammo as fast as you can blink. But I discovered the reloading with the 550 was relaxing. With the 650 you reload for 20 minutes and you are dine. Not enough time to wind down and relax. The 550 will load 1250 rounds a week if you spend just half an hour a day 5 days a week with it. Very few people need more output than that. I wish I had kept the 550.

Being a bad reloader I was trying to get my 223 reloaded of Friday for a match on Saturday. So of course I broke the only decaping pin I had. I couldn't get a replacement that fast si in desperation I went shoping for a new sizing die and the local stores were out of lee 223 dies. I was staring ay my press wondering what to do. my eyes happened on my 357 tool head. The 357 die looked big enough to hold a 223 case. It is wide enough so that it wouldn't size the case. I wondered if it would work as a deprimng station. So I grabbed a 223 case and gave it a try. Looked good so I put it into station 1 in a tool head and moved the 223 sizing die to number 2. It meant another trip through the press for all the brass but it worked.

I would happily give you some if there is a way I can legally ship it to you. I have 5 pounds and I don't like it.

WSF is one of my favorite powders for 9mm. The only thing about WSF is it runs best with mid to upper end loads. So if that is what you are after then great. But if you want powder puff loads then use something faster.

If you are going to do a lot of 9mm and 223 it might be worth your while just to go with the 1050 if you are going to end up with a lot of military brass. Or you can be like the rest of us and need two tool heads for the 650 and a super swager.

I own a 650 because I wanted it not because I needed it. With a Dillon 550 If I reloaded for 30 minutes a day for 5 days a week you would be putting out around 1200 rounds that week. I know once in a while I have shot more than that a week but certainly not every week. For the vast majority of people the 550 is all they will ever need.

I regret selling my 550. I have a couple of calibers I would like to reload for but don't. I can't bring myself to fork over $200+ to load a caliber that I would only load a few hundred rounds a year.

I had a 550 for 3 years before I upgraded to the 650. I say that if you can afford it just go with the 650.

All metal prices are going up because people are speculating on how much Japan is going to be using in the next few years. Hopefully or maybe not the price spike should be short lived because the rest of the worlds economy is in the crapper and headed to the septic tank.

Do you have any idea of your FPS or power factor? I have never used any 165 but I picked up several thousand to cheap to pass up. I had planed to use WST or tightgroup anyways.

The only people who have this problem are people who load hot loads. I do not shoot major power factor. I shoot minor and mid range loads and never have had this problem. My G23 is a first year gun as a matter of fact I was on a waiting list for the g23 to hit the stores. So I have one of those not so supported barrels and well over a decade reloading the 40 SW. My Dillon die run down to touch the shell plate works just fine.

180 RNFP - Titegroup 3.4gr - 1.125 OAL 131 power factor (sea level). Very nice to shoot and accurate. My favorite 40 load. 180 RNFP - HP38 3.7gr - 1.125 OAL 128 power factor (sea level. Burns one side of the case and not as accurate as TG.

I use a lot of 1/3 scale targets. Steve Koski has left them scattered across the net. I print them at home on cardboard colored paper. ipsc.pdf idpa.pdf

Thanks for the replies. They may not be the most popular bullet weight but for what I got them for I am not complaining. If tightgroup doesn't work for them I will switch to WSF or POwer pistol.