Received my first Dillon 650 a few weeks back. Set up was a breeze. Started loading 45ACP 200 gr cast over 4.7 gr WST. everything was perfect, powder charge was +/- .2 grs, rounds functioned and fed well in my 1911.
Just for kicks i decided id reduce the charge to 4.4 (maybe a lighter kick...blah blah)
adjusted screw on the back of powder bar and now i cant get the thing to throw a consistant charge at all!
Tonight i turned the blue wingnut on the bottom of safety rod 2 full turns more to compress spring even more (as told to by dillon)
powder hopper is 3/4 full , powder bar is traveling complete. after i adjusted everything i dumped 10 charges to "settle powder" before measuring each charge for variance
any sugesstions?
Heres my charge number variances i am getting in order
4.3
4.5
4.3
4.4
4.4
4.3
4.2
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.4
4.7
4.5
4.3
No they were done using a single piece of brass. Im going to use a new case for each charge tonight. Handle stroke is smooth. When you say shell plate full each time do you place an empty piece of brass in the last station so your not flipping out a case with powder in it?