purecharger

It's a hijack, and as Rigger said could be answered by searching then a new post if needed.

Roll around on a tray with a tiny bit of mineral spirits, then dry with a towel.

Jeff Bartlett at gibrass.com sells the best once-fired military brass I've been able to find. Right now (11/3/2015) he has 5.56 and 7.62 available. From experience it is definitely worth the extra money ($25 per thousand) to have him process: primer punched, pocket swaged and brass tumbled and polished. Shows up like new. The last batch of 5000 7.62 cases I bought didnt even need to be trimmed.

I really do believe the cam is a design flaw - one which causes an unacceptable amount of errors on case feeding. I've purchased 3 toolheads at almost $300/ea with the flawed cam. Will you send the new cams with the fixed design as a free replacement?

I roll my loaded rounds on a tray with a little bit of mineral spirits, then use a towel to dry.

Downtown San Diego condo, spare bedroom is my office / guest room and I converted the walk in closet to be my workshop / reload room.

Wow that's awesome, just ordered the small/large set myself. Adjusting the backup expander/swaging rod properly has been the least precise part of the 1050 for me.

For anyone following this thread, I finally reached a resolution with Dillon. It turns out that the "modified" .30-06 die set for the 1050 consists of the normal .30-06 size die and the .308 seat and crimp dies. It does not contain .30-06 dies that have been modified! So if you already have the dies for .308, the only additional die you need is the sizing die.

I called in and the rep refused to sell just the modified dies. I don't want to pay for the full conversion set since I already have the other parts. Your post here makes it sound like I can buy just the dies..what to do?

I've been using H110 for .44mag in my 1050.I've noticed the same thing but it hasn't been a show stopper. Every 300 rounds or so I blow out the shellplate and any accumulated powder with my air compressor.

http://www.gunbot.net/reloading/Powder/ Best site to use. In the past month I've bought 4x 8lb jugs of IMR4064 and 2x 8lb jugs of WC820 (milsurp H110)

I used a hacksaw and cut the bottom of one of my punches off just below the sizing ball. Easy to saw through. I had a couple hundred rounds of .223 I'd loaded that were sized wrong and wouldn't chamber properly so after pulling the bullets and dumping the powder I used the modified primer punch in the sizing die to resize the primed cases.

Unfortunately they would not. Customer support on the phone stated that the modified die set is only sold as part of the $200 caliber conversion kit, no matter that I don't need anything out of the kit other than the dies. Since I have not used the dies I ordered yet, they set up an RMA and will ship me a modified size die only in exchange, refunding me the difference. I was instructed to see if my .308 seating and crimping dies are short enough to allow the case to pass, and if not I need to remove as much as 1/4" or more from each die body. Frankly, I don't have the tools or know-how to do something like that. Kind of annoyed with the whole process.

Shoot, glad I read this post. Got a Remington 700 in .30-06 for Christmas and ordered what I thought were all the necessary parts to start loading .30-06 on my 1050 the next day. I'm still loading a big batch of .44mag so I haven't setup the machine for -06 yet. Since I already load .308 I didn't buy or even look at the caliber conversion kit and just ordered the normal die set. D'oh!!

Actually, if money is not a concern the 1050 is the press to get. It was my first press and couldn't be happier.

Agreed, no big deal as far as I'm concerned. Kinda fun actually!

I think I keep it simpler than most people on here. I wait until I have a 2k+ cases to trim and then I setup a toolhead on my 1050 with just the trimmer die installed in the station where you normally seat the bullet. Having it in that station is best for my setup since I have room to the left side for the vacuum hose. After everything is trimmed I switch back to my normal loading toolhead and start cranking.

I'm not at all mechanically inclined, yet I figured out how to change toolheads and primer systems pretty easily. It's kinda fun too plus it gives you a chance to clean and lube the machine. I have 3 toolheads that I share between .45, .223, .308 and .44 as well as the 1200B trimmer when it's time to do a lot of case trimming. No biggie and at $250+ for a 1050 toolhead it's worth it to me over having dedicated for each. Don't be put off by it, or imagine that changing them out is harder than it is!

Good call, I'm going to start doing this! What do you put it in to spray?

Thats what I'll do then! I need to finish 100 rounds of .223 after I pull them (sized wrong) then I'm switching toolheads to .44 magnum and I'll try this load out. I do have quite a bit of Hodgdon Clays on hand and they do have published loads for that between 4-6gr, have you ever tried Clays?

Realized I never said what I'm loading for - just got a Ruger Super Redhawk 9.5".

I had thought I'd start at 21gr and work up but sounds like 23 is a better place to begin.

Good to know, thank you.

Do you recall the load you've used?

Curious if anyone has experience with the components I gathered: Hodgdon H110 240gr LSWC from Missouri Bullet Company [Link] CCI #300 Large Pistol Primer Hodgdon only publishes a load for 240gr jacketed bullets and I just got this response from their support account: This sounds more like a corporate CYA response than anything. What do you guys think?