M-Bear

The only time you are going to find a glock bulge is if some one is shooting hot loads. Keep your loads at reasonable levels and you can get a dozen or more reloads from a single piece of brass. To set your sizing die raise the shell plate all the way to the top. Screw the sizing die down until it touches the shell plate. Turn another 1/8 turn and your done. If that isn't enough you can grind a little bit of the belling off the bottom of the die. But that should not be necessary.

Maybe it is just my bad luck but I ordered 10 from then six months ago. ! wasn't usable and three do not drop free like they should.

Nickle isn't as pliable as brass. I would just lube it. While lubing pistol brass isn't necessarily it does smooth out the sizing process.

When I bought my 550 several years ago it was all the money I wanted to spend on a press. I don’t think the question should be a 550 or a 650. It should be a LNL ap versus a 650. With the LNL you can upgrade and make it the equivalent of a 650. With the 550 your just there. I honestly wish I had gone with the LNL then I would just be buying a case feeder instead of another press. If money isn’t an object go with the 650. Otherwise in a couple of years you will be selling off your 550 stuff at a loss to buy your 650.

Yes, you could just purchase caliber conversion and dies. You would have to reset all of your dies and powder measure every time you want to change the press. Trey Or you could get some of those Hornady Sure-Loc Die Locking Rings. Adjust your dies and lock the rings and there set. You would still have to adjust the powder funnel but the rest would stay set.

You can read the history up to the introduction of the 550 and there it ends. Was it made from the ground up to be used with a case feeder?

How come I can't find anything on the history of the 650 press?

Apparently Arizona isn't in a recession like the rest of the country.

they are sending one out to a guy on glock talk to test with lead bullets.looks like a three week test. http://glocktalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1282570

I have a friend who is a rural carrier. He gets paid by mails counts that they do twice a year. More mail more money. Yes when I had the last box of brass I had delivered the post woman complained about it being to heavy.

I am trying to price out what I need. I only want to make one order and get it right the first time. If I buy a case feeder and the small pistol case feed plate will that work for both the 9mm and 40 sw? Is there anything else I need to buy to make a case feeder work with both on a 650?

You might try autocomp.

You are not going to get away without lube when you are sizing. You can buy cases that are deprimed and sized but that adds a lot to the bottom line. good luck.

For bunny farts I like 231 and tight group. For normal rounds I like WSF and PP.

Trust me I speak from personal experience. 40sw and AA#5 is bad juju. Personally I will never use any AA powder anymore.

If you weren't on the other sea board I would offer to sell you mine. After two years with the 550 I am ready for the 650. Take a good look at the Hornady lnl ap also.

+ .99 my cost for 9 major is $0.147 buying once fired brass and using Zero RN 124gr. 11 cents each if you are recycling your brass and 13 cents each for buying once fired brass in bulk.

Thanks for the input everyone. I want a rock solid casefeeder and auto indexing would be nice. I only know one person that had a 550 casefeeder. He never got it working to his satisfaction with 9mm. He finally sold it. So I am Leary about buying one. Also you can't use it with the 223 so it would have to be detached for them. I am loading about 1k a month right now. Which the 550 can deal with in about 2 1/2 hours. But most of my reloading is done when everyone else is sleeping so faster is better. 90% of my reloading is 9mm and 40sw. Its more a matter of wanting a 650 than really needing it. But right now I have some extra money that doesn't need accounted for. So it may well be upgrade now or wait a few years.

10 to 12 thousand a year for two years.

you should lub the cases ,it make the whole press action like silk and on top of that it help the dies lifespan. personaly i use one shot, altough many options available. +10 not only is it easier on your brass it saves a lot of wear n tear on the press. Carbide is no repacement for lube. go to the health food of vitamin store and but 5oz bottle of liquid lanolin. Mix with a half gallon of isotropic alcohol from the drug store and you have a lifetime supply of case lube for around $10.00.

i SIT. when I first bought my press I just bolted it to the counter and away I went. When reading a discussion on the strong mount i decided that maybe a different height would be better. So I cut a bunch of plywood squares and raised it 3/4 of an inch at a time and then loaded some rounds. It kept getting better and then worst. I settled on a height that has the roller handle at about the center of my shoulder. The strong mount was the wrong size so I made a box and screwed it on top of the bench. I didn't raise the whole bench as I like it were it is for other things.

I am seriously thinking about upgrading my 550 to a 650 with a brass feeder. I am not sure if it makes more sense to keep the 550 for any caliber that I might want to load small amounts of or to sell it to help take the sting out of the upgrade cost. Right now I only load 9mm 40sw and 223. I have noticed that caliber conversions (plus tool head and powder funnel)for the 650 add up real quick. So I was wondering if anyone else had sold the 550 only to regret it later or not? Am I even going to want to use the 550 after I get used to the 650?

Pick your color. both are priced about the same after you include the bullet feeder. Dillon will rebuild your loader. will Hornady? The 550 is a better deal if you are going to do several different calibers.

Even with 9mm you save half the cost. It is costing me 110 per K.

I started with the 550. But now several years later I wish I started with the 650. So the 550 is going on the block.