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I found the website that I read it on here is what it says : "These are the "bread-and-butter" of reloading, the most commonly called for primers in reloading recipes. CCI standard primers are remarkably clean burning, leaving primer pockets cleaner and extending the time between pocket cleaning. That's a hugh benefit for progressive reloaders. They are more sensitive and easier to seat than older CCI primers, also engineered for smooth feeding in automated equipment." I'm not sure if the forum rules allow posting links to this stuff.

Very cool man, thanks for posting. benos, that's funny.

I've read this somewhere as well, can't remember the site but it was a site that sells reloading supplies

The dimensions of my bench top are 66" x 27" and it's 1.5" thick... that picture is about an hour and a half after I applied the third coat of poly edit: this is also a pretty low bench compared to others, made for sitting. The legs are nice because you can remove them, and it allows for it to be easily moved or if you needed a smaller bench they could be removed and put away when not in use.

I just wanted to share a few pictures of my new bench I have been working on, the legs are metal and can be unscrewed from the table and have screw on feet to add a little more height. I haven't worked out my shelves for the back of the bench but I will be adding some kind of shelving to the back. The top is 2 pieces of ply laminated together. I have just been working on applying polyurethane to the top which is fairing time consuming, takes a while to dry. This is a very easy bench that anyone could build. you just screw the flanges into the bottom and you can get the metal pipe in any length you wish, i believe home depot will cut it and thread it for you. I do plan on doing some work to the legs and the flanges on the feet to make them the same color. The orange caps on the legs are thread protectors.

I would say do some research. I don't even own a dillon and could probably tell you every single difference just from doing some research. If you go to dillons website it lists the features of both side by side and you can see the differences.

Well I just got home from home depot and spent $190 dollars to build my bench. It is going to have metal removeable legs, and be built at a sitting height, it will have shelves and will not be anywhere near as fancy as above, but I will post the end result as soon as I get it done. Hopefully tomorrow.

I personally really like the .100" front sight

I just can't decide which tungsten rod to get the 3.1 or 4.1, anyone have any suggestions, it seems as if the 4.1 might be a little too front heavy

I have a solid stainless steel guide rod that weighs 1.9 ounces. I have a stock guide rod that was cast full of molten lead that weighs 2.3 ounces I believe, I ended up having to cast 2 of them because I had a void in the first one which weighed 2.2. The tungsten guide rods weigh 3.1 and 4.1 ounces so thats still a huge difference.

I'm not sure it actually improves the quality of ammo, I went a few years never lubing any of my pistol brass. I was at cabelas one day and was staring at the hornady one shot lube and remembered everyone raving about it, so I picked up a bottle. I will say this, its everything everyone said it would be definitely made things a lot easier and smoother. I think I will be an avid user from here on out. I can't honestly say its improved the quality of my ammo tho

Also like others have said yes its difficult to release a full mag due to the fact it has quite a bit of pressure pushed down on the mag catch making it hard to move, just push up on the mag a little. This really shouldn't be an issue, like on my gun it is harder to insert a full capacity mag than it is to insert one with 18 rounds.

I ended up taking the mag catch and spring out and polished up the plastic that the metal mag catch rides in between this seemed to fix the problem. I never really noticed mine being notchy until I added an extended mag release. But like others have said don't take this out unless you have good mechanical aptitude and maybe some decent little tools to help you out, it is a freakin bitch.

My personal recommendation is powder river they have treated me right and everyone that has tried my trigger loves it, even the guys that have the other guys triggers.

One more things I've ran a couple thousand rounds threw my gun at 1.15 and haven't had a single failure to feed

I typically run 1.150 and it has been great for accuracy, one powder I have seems to like 1.142-1.145. As stated above you don't want to go longer than 1.15 thats about the longest the mag seems to fit/feed well, but like I said I get awesome accuracy out of my 1.15 loads and these are with a 124gr rn. I don't really see any benefit of going under 1.135 or so unless on a light jhp or what not.

Right now mine is: Berry's 124gr rn 4.6 or 4.5 imr sr7625 CCI spp 1.150 oal This is for a 9mm xdm 4.5" barrel, stock spring

Yeah I also ran across this from the above link. I don't currently use primer tubes but definitely seems cool. I would like to see some more user reviews on this product, kinda curious how well it's going to hold up. TBH seems overpriced as well, but I guess with nothing else really in the market at the price point you can do that.

Good to know. I've also been looking for those damn zombie rounds as well, you know just in case

Great advice here, just wanted to add I currently am using this powder measure to load all of my handgun rounds until I save up a few more bucks but thats another story. Anyway this thing has metered extremely accurate for me, as far as pistol powders i've only ran power pistol, wst, 7625, and N320 through it and my consistency is +/- .0 gr I'm sure it does vary some on the hundredths of a grain but if i'm loading 4.0 I can test anyone of them and they all read dead on 4.0. It doesn't seem to measure the rifle powder nearly as consistently but for the price I love this thing, and to be honest I hated it at first. The only advice I can give to get it to be consistent is, be extremely consistent in the way you use the lever, like if you bang the lever a little on the upstroke just make sure you do it exactly the same every time and you should get good results.

Sounds to me like you should go with the 550. Since you are new to loading pistol and rifle I think it's the best choice, also its going to be easier on the pocket book and caliber changes will be cheaper and from my understanding easier (large to small primer)

I like that bench but way too tall for me, I like to sit

Hey I am debating picking up a tungsten guide rod myself, the current one I am using is 2.1 ounces. CC offers the 3/8" and 5/16", 4.1 and 3.1 ounces. I was curious which one you are running and any thoughts on the balance of the gun ?

Wow I'm glad that guy ended up being ok. That would scare the crap outta me. I can honestly say I'm guilty of not wearing any protective gear while loading.

I'm also running there match trigger setup, ejector, and titanium striker status indicator. These guys ship fast, have awesome service, and I would highly recommend them to anyone.