Rynnäkökivääri 62

I have a lee c-frame and handpress for when I am tinkering and experimenting with stuff.

I cut the spring under the shell plate to reduce the snap, also got the bearings, very smooth now. I have a small thingie thats just a small washer with a thin handle, I shove this onto the primer indexing arm so I can stop the indexing when I want to. The primers being fed all the time was annoying as heck so this is my most useful mod. I do tend to tweak & fiddle with new loads and unloading the press of primers for every time would be cumbersome. The other thing I want is uniquetek micrometers on some of the measures.

Well I've had my old TA-11 for a while now and I really like it. I don't think I will be swapping it out anytime soon, I really just enjoy using it, and the donut reticle which I thought I would not like, I very much enjoy using. It's a completely different type of scope but I think I am more suited to it

I would have liked to have seen the test done over say a few months, to give the barrels time to cool down between shootings (of enough bullets to simulate a 3gun stage, say), to more closely resemble normal usage.

Ocular placement sensitivity factor?

Well I bought that TA11 I mentioned, so now I get to compare and contrast the two.

I have that same model. Anyone have experience with say the VX6 from leupold, or other 1-6x scopes, how are they on this front? I've also been offered a TA11 with donut reticle (tritium is said to be nearly expired) for 650 euros.

I have the recon X mount and I don't need to get it further away really, on 6.5x I need to move closer infact.

It's my first scope so I am not sure if I expected too much from it, but the narrow eye box that requires a very careful placement of the head at high magnification has been hard for me to live with. I used to have an aimpoint so maybe I've been spoiled. I'm currently the only one in my whole club with a 1-6x scope so I haven't had much chance in comparing with other people. Most people here use irons or aimpoints, so I ask the question here. Do other 1-6 scopes have as narrow an eye box as this scope does? What are your experiences? I've also been wondering about 1-4x scopes, do they give greater "flexibility"? I was told by some guy on a forum the increased magnification range of these scopes in combination with the small objective contribute to a narrower eye box and other issues. I have been starting to contemplate trying to find myself an ACOG TA11, since I've heard is that it's a top notch optic with a giant eyebox that makes it great for fast shooting from various positions. I would dearly like to try one but they are practically unheard of here.

Nope I use a light load of 3.6g of N330, no compression at all, I can hear the powder shaking around even. It's definitely the crimp die that causes the OAL variation, I have verified this.

I've got my stuff back together now, new custom expander that makes the ID of the case to .355" and bullets are now sized to .356". The problem still persists, the crimp die touches the bullet and pulls it out as the cartridge backs back out of the die. Can anyone tell me if there's some other design of crimp die, that does not touch the bullet? Or is not as liable to as the dillon one. My problem is likely the profile of the bullet rather than it being fat, it being a 147gr flat nose profile.

I think the narrow eyebox is the biggest issue for me, it's not bad at 1x but at 6.5x I sometimes have to readjust a few times to get it right. Not sure how other scopes compare to this one though, I have no experience with optics. This is my only and first scope aside from a cheapo 4x20 I got with an old levergun, that I promptly removed. I read elsewhere that the biggest cause for the tight eyeboxes on scopes like these is the small front objective and it gets only worse if you increae the zoom range so I wonder how that 1.8x stacks up here. I wouldn't say no to a simple 1-6x with a larger front objective, maybe a 32mm like I've seen on certain IOR scopes, if that would give a bigger and less sensitive eyebox.

I understand the principle of that and I am looking into having someone making me a custom powder funnel for my Dillon measure that would act like a two-step expander. I don't think it's relevant to my OAL problem though.

They are clean, they're new dies and this is their first use, I have loaded maybe 10 rounds so far. EDIT: The seating die produces the same OAL on rounds, I have loaded and checked the rounds after being seated, the OAL is correct there, it's only after crimping that they get longer.

Would you still recommend a bigger expander plug if I size to .356" in the future? Do I want a Lee expander plug if I am running Dillon dies? I am not sure how the expander plug is responsible for inconsistent OAL though? I can see it causing another issue by maybe making the bullet diameter too small, but OAL issues?

OK I just setup my 9mm conversion kit on my Dillon 650 for the first time, I've had the 9mm kit since I got the press about 1,5 months ago, but I've only reloaded 44mag and .45acp so far. I cast up a few hundred 147gr bullets recently though and I tumble lubed a bunch and was gonna try them in my glock with stock barrel (IGB aftermarket barrel incoming). Now the bullets drop at .359" from the mold and that's the root cause of my problems, I think. When I jam this rather fat bullet into the case and then into the crimp die, I think the bullet gets stuck in the crimp die and it gets pulled out a bit as it's lowered back out. I tested by crimping one case multiple times and it got progressively longer each time, I managed to go from 1.150" to 1.162" this way. The COAL I desire is 1.145" though. Once I get my aftermarket barrel I will slug it and get a 9mm die for conventional lubing and sizing of the bullets so they probably won't be as fat in the future, I hope. Still are there any crimp dies out there that would be more kind towards people using oversized cast bullets, the fatness of this bullet is useful if I wanna use it in a factory barrel.

I just ran graphite mixed with gun powder through mine a couple of times, they all meter well enough for my purposes, within .1 grains.

Yeah I got the Harris S-BRM 6-9 from Brownells: http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=6945/sku=416-005-100/Product/S-BRM-6-9-Bipod It works real well for me, I also got this so I could mount it straight to the rail: http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=32305/sku=452-000-076/Product/Quick-Detach-Stud-Adapter-For-Free-Float-Tube

Thanks that did it! A single turn on the set screw and now it stops further out, and the cases all drop now.

My scope (BTR-2, SFP) arrived two weeks ago but I didn't get my scope mount until last night. I am truly glad I went with the extended Recon-X mount in this case, the distance is just barely enough when I use nose to the charging handle. I actually want to move my head back a little for the best view, the scope and mount is as far forward as it can go as well. I have not yet tested it practically though. Will go zero it today. My pictures should improve a bit too in the future, thanks to the thing next to the rifle. This point and shoot is from '03 and worn out...

If I could hijack the topic for my own purposes then... I have a similar problem, but the adjustments covered in the manual does not help me, they are all about adjusting the arms movement leftward when the handle is downwards. My problem occurs on the upstroke when the arm is supposed to move back to its default position and let another case drop from the tube. Is there any way to make the arm move further backward, or maybe another insert for the arm that works better. There is an edge there and that is what the rim gets caught on, if the arm could move more to the right, not the left, then cases could drop more freely but it does not seem like any of the instructions cover that eventuality. I think a possible solution might be some kind of shim inside the case feed adapter might work.

Well there's not a lot to be done I guess except new parts and I ordered 3 of them just to be sure. This thread has helped me in diagnosing possible problems very well. Matt Griffin described what I think happened very accurately, primer would not seat for some reason (spring arm setting, or maybe flawed brass) so I got a crushed primer that went on and was supposed to be dropped into the unused primer tray. But instead it did like in the picture and jammed up the whole thing. I am not sure why Dillon prescribes a small gap between the spring arm and casing, the 2nd time I had primer seating problems it worked by pushing in the case with my finger to align it, just letting it touch the case seems like it'd work better to me.

I actually barely noticed the resistance, until it was too late anyway... Polished the primer ring last night, ran through every hole with 1200 grit sandpaper wrapped around a drill. There where some burrs in the thing, and also small divots that could not be polished away, or the primers would not fit properly. But I don't think they should interfere since they don't stick out or produce a hard edge. I reloaded a few bullets last night to test it, but it's not easy to constantly remember to work the primer feed manually. A few primers where difficult to seat until I pressed on the shell to align it, must have been something with the slow and constantly interrupted pace too because sometimes the cases would not be fed far enough into th shell plate and would not be aligned with the sizing/decapping die. I sent a mail to Dillon a few days ago detailing my problem but no response yet, maybe their CS only applies to phone... They did process my request to buy extra primer indexing arms really quickly.

I tried loading a few rounds today and one primer refused to go in, I am using winchester large pistol primers and fiocchi brass.

The shelves above the dillon are not fixed as of yet, they just lie there for now. I removed the old ones and cut them up so I can have more but smaller levels of shelves instead off to the side, once I get the case feeder I will install it and arrange the new shelves around the case feeder so that I will have room to work. I really like the height of the machine now though, I can stand straight and work the lever like this, with the Lee I had to bend over or sit down. I hope to make one dedicated shelf for the quick change kits, I ordered two extra so this machine will reload .45ACP as it came installed for, .44mag and 9mm. Next year I might look into .223 reloading as well.