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if anyone is looking for a top notch roll sizer check out the ones coming from Australia now, Kevin Whitehead makes a wicked machine. I've loaded around 100,000 rounds on my Revo now and haven't had a single upside down case (9mm) yet. I've had a couple mangled ones that spat out sideways, one of which broke a MA pin, and the spring on the case feed arm, but that's it.

I haven't used pins in ages, the only time I might is with my match rifle ammo to clean the primer pockets, maybe. Totally not needed at all.

I spent $10,000 having my house decontaminated back in 2006 after only living in it for two years. The lead dust was everywhere, 2 floors up from the reloading room and the dust turned the sample cloths as yellow as the dust in the reloading room. Wet tumbling, dump the water down my big sink in the garage, this then ends up at the water treatment plant, which specifically has a process for removing heavy metals from the water. My city engineering department are the ones who told me dump it in the sink instead of outside. As for time. I spend maybe, 25 minutes more per couple of 5 gallon pails with wet tumbling, than I did dry tumbling, and with much better results in cleanliness of the cases. Also, much less money spent on stuff to get the cases clean. I use the cheapest laundry detergent I can find, 1 tablespoon of it, less than 1/4 teaspoon of Lemishine, and hot water for both washing and rinsing. The rinse water also gets reused as washing water once the first batch is done, then that gets dumped out, rinse the cases, reuse the rinse water to wash, repeat. during the 1hr washing cycle I am drying my brass in the oven for 1hr. easy peasy

this might sound like a drag, but when I got my Mk7 for my 1050 I started processing brass on it's own, then wet washing the lube off, drying, and then loading. That way I didn't have lube on the cases during loading. my ammo comes out looking like new, and no more dirty hands after shooting a few hundred.

I run my gun in Open and Standard, 94% of the Open match winner recently, with iron sights and DA/SA trigger. I won standard with the same setup. I do want to build a gun like Robin did, TS top end with a frame mounted optic, but I'd stick with the DA/SA setup so I don't need to run safeties. Throw on a magwell and I'm happy. but up here in Canuckistan it's still 10 rounds

why would you bother with converting it to SA? Just shoot it in minor as is. With a good trigger job and 10-11lb hammer springs you won't be at any disadvantage.

When I first saw the Mk7 for the 1050 I knew I had to have it, at the time I gauged only my match ammo, and dumped all my practice ammo in buckets. Once I got the Mk7 Pro I discovered I could gauge while it ran, I could work on guns while it ran, I could do all sorts of stuff, while it ran. This was a massive step up for me. I also discovered that it could process brass for me while I did other stuff, which meant I had perfect brass, that I knew was perfect, to load with when it came time to load. And while I did once load 2600 rounds in an hour pulling the handle (buddy loading primers, brass and bullets for me) it is not sustainable. Hell, doing 1600 rounds an hour pulling the handle, for 5 or 6 hours, is no fun either, but having a machine do it? Priceless. I also discovered I got much more consistent ammo doing it with the Mk7, likely due to it operating exactly the same on every stroke, nary a difference. Then I saw the Revo, and holy crap, I had my order in minutes after I saw that announced at SHOT. And I love it, sure there have been some growing pains, I expected as much. But even the ones I've had are nothing compared to the crap the 1050s have thrown at me. Worth every penny, enough so, I will be ordering an Evolution most likely (or a Brass processing Revo) once I sell a few of the 1050s to pay for it. Total no brainer for me.

I sat down and loaded 500 rounds in like 15 minutes on my Revo tonight, complete with case gauging all the rounds, and that includes topping up the 1050 that was running in the background processing brass for me and talking on the phone and sending some messages. It's rough I tell you. I really miss pulling the handle not

I'd expect the Evo Pro dimensions to be very similar to the 1050 Pro dimensions as the Evo can be retrofitted to the 1050 Pro base. 41" tall (104 cm) x 16" wide (40.6 cm) x 20" deep (50.8 cm)

if you ordered the Pro it doesn't need to be mounted to the bench as it's mounted on it's own aluminum base

Mk7 makes a great product, but someone really needs to proofread their literature.

one of the German guys did an unboxing series of pics. I had planned on it, but then totally got caught up in the actual unboxing and setting up. It took me maybe 1.5hrs to do the whole thing.

The Mk7 powder drop can do exactly the same level of precision, if not better, than the Dillon. One caveat to using a Dillon on the Mk7 is that you'd have to use the spring return setup as there is no where to connect the backup rod to reset the measure.

depends on the brass honestly, rifle yes, pistol no. Unless I'm bored, in which case I'm washing the brass twice, once before decapping and once after.

Yes, but why would you?

yes and yes, why put stress on the Swage and Swagesense and possibly wreck cases? Same thing goes for the bulletsense, sure the torque/clutch sensor will stop before it hurts the press but the bullet and case will be pooched most likely.

yeah I stopped using pins ages ago. The only time I might use them is with my match rifle rounds, maybe.

Old pic, the powder measure they are shipping is their own design.

aaah, jeez, right it's in the case feeder lol, mine is a different case feeder and the sensor is in the drop tube

the sensor that goes on the case feed drop tube, that triggers the case feeder

Dude, where is the case feeder sensor?

if they made the funnel portion of the powder hopper a bit taller it wouldn't be so bad to connect, it was a lot of "fun" for me too. I had some concerns with the 3D printed plastic C clip that you need to screw down to hold the powder hopper, but Mk7 is already sending me a machined aluminum one. Which did you get?

yeah you'd need to have a lot more data to really figure out what is causing the spread. weigh every bullet, weigh and volume test all cases too.

I simply lube the brass I get off the indoor range now, no tumbling at all, then into the press for processing, then into the wet tumbler with no pins. That allows me to load with confidence in knowing that the brass is all good, and has no debris in it. I'm also planning on getting a rollsizer from Kevin Whitehead in Australia, which would mean I'd have to change up my process a bit. Probably a dry tumble in the garage, then into the roll sizer, then into the processor, then into a wet tumble and then load. I might just wet tumble twice though, as I hate dry tumbling.