The Donald
-
Posts
785 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Forums
Profiles
Events
Store
Posts posted by The Donald
-
-
Looking at the design, I would say no, the frame of the press needs to be machined differently.
-
17 hours ago, Trader said:
Both of my non Legion X5's group best with 115 jhp and 124 jhp in that order.
Any specific bullet or ammo you get best results with?
-
I have mine set up for 9mm 147 gr RN Blue Bullets, works great. Ran a bunch of Montana Gold 125 HP, would every so often drop a bullet upside down, so you need to tweak the collator for each different bullet. I just watch, if a bullet came in upside down I flipped it over before seating it.
-
The problem with the Swage-it is the brass is only retained by the shell plate, the 650 does not have something to hold the brass down like a 1050. This is because the work table moves up and down on a 650 and on a 1050 the tool head moves up and down.
To swage correctly you need to support the base on the inside at the area the primer pocket is in.
-
10 hours ago, TonytheTiger said:
Would've needed to be redesigned to work with FFP.
No, in fact it would have worked at all powers not just 6x like the 1-6 scope.
-
Watch the classifieds here, also when you get to 50 posts, you can place WTB ads.
-
On 4/6/2020 at 12:38 PM, adamge said:
Regarding fully pre-loading the on deck shooter. I think this will result in one fewer shooter being available to reset the stage. So the squad size or staffing need to be bumped up by one to compensate. But if that is accounted for, then yeah I could see it saving huge time in a match.
Most big matches you have 13-16 shooters per squad. Also the stages have a fixed R.O. and scorekeeper. Would be just adding an extra staff person to a stage. So you have plenty of people to reset. I have run some smaller matches by getting the on deck shooter ready before walking him/her to the R.O. it makes a big difference both for the match and shooter.
-
ALS holsters and 1911/2011's especially STI's take a bit of work to fit correctly and have an easy draw.
-
-
My competition pistols either my Eagle or Edge
My carry guns are a couple of cheap used full size M&P's in 9mm. They run every time I shoot one, and if you shoot someone to protect yourself you mostly likely will not get your gun back or if you do it will be at least a year later.
-
1 hour ago, BomberJosh said:
Im Josh,
I am a Deputy in a Central TX Sheriff's Office, and formerly a Marine EOD Tech. I play in production mostly flipping between my M&P Pro 9L that I carry on duty for professional development and my CZ Shadow 2 that I've been tinkering with for a while. Im probably going to build a PCC this year and get into that as well.
I love this forum its funny I took a couple years to actually sign in because I wanted to post something.
See you guys on the range.
Come on out to Manor this Saturday. At ARC APSC is putting on a USPSA match, you can find it on Practiscore.
-
I have a Springer Precision mount for a Vortex Venom on my M&P, so far I like it. I just couldn't commit to milling my slide yet.
I picked up a second Venom cheap thinking of trying the EGW on my STI Eagle.
-
Club I shoot with bought 6 M18 Milwaukee roto hammers and a bunch of batteries. I bought the adapter to drive spikes, it really save time. Our bays are 6" of road base over a high lime content clay.
-
Ghost rings are real slow on clays, knock over targets etc. A vent rib with a rear site is just about as accurate as a ghost ring for slugs/precise shots, but faster at everything else.
-
12 hours ago, doublealpha said:
Hi all,
I thank you for sharing your experiences and suggestions.
We set out to design and manufacture an automated primer tube filler that could retail at $200 or less. Machining that, as some have suggested from steel or aluminium would lead to a product which would have to retail for at $750 or more. Our goal was to produce something affordable for most, not just for the well-off few. I am sorry if this has offended some.
Calling a product cheap because it’s made of plastic is just not correct. Plastic is a material perfect for many applications, and this is certainly one of them. Yes, it is a mechanical device, but it is under not stress and applies no forces and there is no reason it cannot work perfectly made of plastics.
And as some of you will now, this is not the fastest or cheapest way to make a product. In order to produce the Primer Pro at an affordable price, we invested over $70,000 in tooling. It would have been much cheaper to make a couple of hundred from machined aluminium and go to market for $750, but forgive me if that was not my goal.
Many are quick to criticize, some without any knowledge about materials or product design and production processes.Yes – I admit the “tackiness” issue of some primers (which is really the only issue, other than the reserved primers solved by the V2 disk) was missed by us, and I apologize to all for that. But it was not due to lack of testing as some seem to think. In fact, ironically, it was due to very extensive testing!! You see, we had been testing designs of the Primer Pro and refining it for well over 6 months. And during this time, the many hundreds of primers, of several brands, we were testing with, were out in open bins, in the open air. As most of you will know – once you remove the primers from their boxes, its no simply thing to put them back….
So these primers, laying out in open bins for months – became totally dry. Some primers are tacky and sticky out of the box, but when you leave them out for a long time – they get dry. They then slide over the plastic surfaces without issue. That is why we missed the severity of this problem earlier on.
But frankly, even if we had caught it – a cleaning from time to time with Pledge or some other plastic cleaner or dry lube makes this problem go away completely. To spend a minute or so to clean the unit every 2000 primers is hardly a big issue. It wont even be that often for most primers. And may need less cleaning over time as the protective layer of the cleaner sets in. I have no way of knowing if an aluminum surface would have functioned better. No one has ever tried to handle primers in this way on other surfaces.
I have been in touch with a few dozen customers over the past weeks who were having issues, and almost all of them are reporting now perfect function when using disk V2 and some Pledge or other cleaner on the ramp and bowl.
If anyone is having an issue – please try that.
And of course, anyone who is unhappy with his primer Pro, or sees the occasional cleaning as a deal breaker, please feel free to return it and use any other solution. I guess we will not be able to satisfy all.
As for myself and my design, we will continue to work hard to innovate and invest in producing products to better our shooting/reloading experience. I am sorry if we are not always able to satisfy everyone’s wishes and meet everyone’s expectations and material preferences.
I do thank you for your feedback, both the positive and critical,
Have a great weekend,
Saul
I understand how equipment is made, and needs to be made at a reasonable price. Using the correct plastics to mold a part that is ready to assemble is a very smart move.
I wish my collator worked correctly, the ramp problem would be easy to solve, my problem was I could run the collator until it shut off and only get 3-5 primers to get to the ramp. I tried both disks and still no luck.
-
I normally load Blue Bullet 147 gr. but found a box on over 1,000 Montana Gold 124 JHP. I didn't tweak the collator, maybe 1 out 200 drops upside down. The Blue Bullets drop less than 1 in a 1,000 upside down.
-
4 hours ago, Stymie12000 said:
They didn't send me a prepaid. Only a P.O. address and a physical address. Depending on if I ship USPS or FedEx/UPS...
Same here, $19.75 to ship a defective product back. Did not even have it for a week. Just wasted my time fooling with it
-
8 minutes ago, Stymie12000 said:
Got rma and just dropped off at fed ex. Of course I'm out shipping both ways. Thanks DAA for wasting my money and time.
Leaving for FedEx in a hour to drop mine off to go back.
-
1 minute ago, Rich406 said:
Have you tried calling them?
I'll call in the morning, I get busy at work and wind up not thinking of calling when at work.
-
I emailed DAA Monday for a RMA to return the collator, it will not even get primers to the chute. Still have not heard anything, I figured even with SHOT Show there should be people at DAA to send out the email with a RMA. Now getting pretty unhappy.
-
I installed the V2 plate, cleaned the bowl, had over 200 primers in the bowl. Ran off till the light on the ramp flashed, had only 8 primers in the tube. Reset and ran a second batch, got 9 in the tube. This thing can barely feed anything to the ramp.
One thing I am not doing is changing primers I use, so unless anyone here has any ideas what I can not get the primers to ramp, it is going back. Sorry just tired of fooling with this.
-
12 hours ago, ltdmstr said:
I have 100 Winchester small pistol primers in the hopper. They're getting picked up by the rotating plate, but apparently they stay there. They never get dropped at the ramp. It's the same with both plates. I think the light sensor just turns the hammer off when you get to 99 so it doesn't overfill.
If the light sensor is counting primers slipping over it, it should stay running until 99 primers have gone over it.
-
1 hour ago, ltdmstr said:
Biggest problem with mine is getting primers to feed out of the hopper. After the first 50 or so, I hardly get any that make it to the ramp. I have no idea why that is, because I can't see what's going on when it's running. When it's apart, I can see the primers are picked up on the rotating plate, but they don't appear to be going anywhere from there. Changing the plates doesn't make a difference. Not sure if mine is defective or what, but every mechanical function on the thing seems to be not working properly.
I just had the same problem. First run loaded '100' no problem, then had ramp issues. Cleaning a lubing did not work, so just cleaned it with alcohol. Then got it to run out a '100' thought I had it fixed, added another 100 primers so have at least 200 in it. Now the collator is not picking up the primers.
Is the light/sensor on the ramp what counts the primers?
-
12 hours ago, ltdmstr said:
Got mine today. Huge disappointment. Tried running with Winchester primers and nothing but problems. Started off ok for about 40-50 primers then they started backing up in the output from the collator. Cleared that out. Now primers aren't getting picked up and hardly anything is coming down the ramp. Then when they do, they're getting hung up at the hammer thing. It's just multiple problems and appears to come down to the fact that the thing is made from such cheap parts, it's just not reliable. I'm going to play around with it some more and see if I can get it to work, but so far it doesn't look promising at all. I'd be more than happy to pay more for something that's made well, works like it's supposed to, and will last. This doesn't appear to be any of those things.
I use Remington 5 1/2 primers, first 50 or so ran OK, then started jamming up. Going to clean the ramp and hole to the tube with alcohol, then a light coat of silicon spray lube, see if that helps.
Cleaned the ramp down to the 'hammer' this morning, both just cleaned and lubed with some silicone causes it to feed worse. I shouldn't have to clean primer to use the machine, if I need to do that I'd rather just use my primer tray.
ShootersWorld powder
in Rifle/Shotgun
Posted
Call up Powder Valley or Midsouth, Shooter's World came out with a powder REAL CLOSE to H4350 for 6.5 Creedmoor.