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  1. Thread is a bit old now so my response may not be relevant any longer and if so, I'll gladly delete. All of the recommendations I have read so far have been great. Allow me to preface the following by stating I started with the SDB, upgraded to 550, then upgraded to the 650. Along the way, I setup a Hornady LNL AP. Currently, both the 650 and LNL AP are still in production at my place and I'm a huge fan of both of them. Given that the 550 seemed to be the most recommended, I thought I'd throw another one out there for consideration and it is the Lee Pro 4000. It can be purchased for sub $250 and would include shell plate for one caliber along with appropriate dies for this caliber. It will also ship with a case feeder. It can operate as full progressive or manually indexed like the 550. I had one setup for a while and I actually really enjoyed loading on it. The old Lee priming system woes one reads about often were non-existent on my 4000. While it took just a tad longer to load primers, it made up time in other areas such as large/small primer swaps. It is not built as robust as either the 650 or the LNL AP (a lot of plastics), but it functioned correctly and if a part were to break, they are super inexpensive to replace. It ships with the Auto-drum measure and mine was easy to adjust and consistent with WSF, WST, and Clays.
  2. Just for grins, see if the "brass" sticks to a magnet. I've run across S&B 9mm brass that was brass plated steel. Now i rake thru my brass bucket with a magnet to pull on any plated fakes. I did think of that previously so I did check all the brass with my magnet. All were good.
  3. Hello All, I recently aquired a new Hornady LNL and I've set it up next to my 650. On my first run, I noticed that about every 5-10 rounds, the brass would hang hard on the Ez-ject where the head of the brass would try to ride over the ez-ject nub. The brass I was using was all S&B. I inspected the ez-ject ridge and didn't notice any burs. This is the 45 shellplate as well. After fighting with it a bit and calling Hornady, I changed the shellplate to the 9MM, ran around 30 or so pieces of brass through it and I had 0 failures. Hmmmm. So, I moved back to the 45 shellplate and decided to try a different headstamp brass. I proceeded to cycle 30 pieces of Federal brass through the press with no ejection issues. After closer inspection of the S&B brass to the Federal, it does appear that the S&B has more of a taper to it. Has anyone else had issues with S&B .45ACP brass in the LNL? Is it simply an incompatibility issue or is something else wrong? As I mentioned earlier, I did call Hornady on Monday and described the situation as thoroughly as I could and they thought I might have either a bad subplate or shellplate and they want to replace the subplate first. I did inform the rep that I was using only S&B brass and he provided no indication that this brand was an issue. I had not tried a different brand of brass at the time I spoke with Hornady. Thoughts?
  4. Do you mind posting your recipe? I have 2K worth of Precision Bullets 125gr FP's and I plan on using WSF as well. Right now I'm considering the following: OAL = 1.115" 4.2gr of WSF .378" crimp I'm looking for a load that will run universally well through my various 9's (Hipower, G19, P95, XD, P-07).
  5. I ran across this website, http://www.slashk.com/dillon.html and found a couple of accessories for Dillon loaders and I wanted to see if anyone had any experience with them. They are advertising a turbo-bearing for a 550 and a powder adjustment knob for all Dillon powder measures. Both interest me.
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