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  1. Have a day dude...Or as my British friend says, "fill yer boots..."

     

    The only swage rod I have broken was from swaging mixed brass. I now only buy and swage same headstamp brass.

     

    "cleaning up" a primer pocket is much different than 1st pass swaging. When I "clean up" primer pockets the swage rod isn't set as deep.

     

    "thousands"????

    I doubt it...

     

    And yes, I do sort by headstamp. It's the only way to get a consistent result in finished ammo.

  2. Mray,

    The Dillon trimmer is press mounted, so you don't have to handle the brass to trim, and when you set up a processing head on a progressive with the RT, you can do multitudes of brass thru sizing and trim dies to end up with rifle brass that is all ready to load, WITHOUT having to handle each piece of brass.

    I hate the pencil sharpener type trimmers, they take extra time and work for what can be accomplished on a progressive press, and they aggravate my carpal tunnel.

    jj

  3. Like I said, with a processing head, and a loading head.

    The processing head has a neck die, a body die, and the trimmer. I use the Lee hand crank trimmer, but the other one made for a power screwdriver will work as well.

    The loading head has a powder funnel that I dump the trickled powder thru, and a seat die. Primer is seated at the usual station.

     

    For 223 and 308 3gun ammo, I run both the same general way, but use the 1200 trimmer, and a powder hopper. Because both these are run in an AR, I also crimp, which removes any outside edges. Inside edges are removed by a expansion die, as the 1200 trimmer squeezes the neck a bit much. Like you I tumble the lube off after processing, which also will remove the burrs left behind by the 1200.

    jj

     

  4. A 50 yard zero will get you just that, accurate at 50 yards...

     

    Use at least 100 yard zero,  (some use 200) and verify ballistics at all distances. Crono, crono, crono...and make a chart for all distances for come ups. Hopefully you have a external turrent scope so you can dial distances.

     

    Tripods, yes

    Rear bag, yes

    Pump pillow, yes

     

  5. I think saying ammo cost is the reason is a cop out, because it's really not that much more expensive if you reload your 308. Is about .45 cents a round for me, compared to .28 cents for 223...and that's using good bullets.

    Commercial ammo? Yea, a bit more, $1.25 or so for 308 vs .60 cents for 223. But that's really not that bad, compared to the total cost of competing in a match...so saying ammo cost isnt really the reason...

  6. 3 hours ago, PacMan said:

    I shoot He Man class sometime because of the match itself and the atmosphere (Rocky Mt. He Man).  Cost difference between He Man and Wee Man is relative by the time you add them all up,

     

    I'm sure if someone can come up with a BDC for iron sight, we would get a lot more young shooters in He Man/Heavy Metal 🤣🤣🤣...

     

    Burris made one for a while, a 1x with a etched reticle with a BDC, wasn't very popular...I tried it and really couldn't use the BDC levels on the clock cause they were so close together.

    The Spitfire works extremely well, has a dialable turrent with yardage marks on it...

     

  7. Add a 2nd optic like a reddot= open division.

    Which means you can use a Reddot on your pistol and shotgun. And use a boxmag fed shotgun, no mag size limits on any guns.

     

    Or you can learn to use your 1x8, which is really a lot of scope for 400 (which isn't really long range, just seems like it to a lot of 3gunners that shoot in square berms) and in. Quite a few shooters use 1x4 Scopes and do fine with them. Also, a downside to a higher magnification is the field of view is smaller, making finding targets a bit tougher and sequencing to the next tougher...

     

    My open AR15 has a 1x8 and a Reddot, and a rarely use 8x...my HeMan scope AR10 has a 1x6, my HeMan irons has a 1x, and my wife uses a 1x4 AR15. Just for examples...

  8. Wow, what a bunch of fluff just to load 9mm...

    All I have ever used is a U die size/decap in #1, Swage in 2, and prime and load all in one pass. Never had a primer pull back problem, maybe cause I dry tumble? Technically, my one pass, manual system is faster than a 2 pass automated setup, cause I load 900-1000rph...the 2 pass automated is maybe doing 1500rph divided by 2, = 750rph to get completed ammo. Plus the twice the handling of the brass...

     

     

    Oh yea, to answer the OP, putting a size die on the swage station will not allow the swage to work correctly. It needs the holding down action of the hold down die. A size die will let the swage push the case up further into the die, resulting in an incomplete swage.

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