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I would just be ecstatic to have her shooting with me and would happily do it all myself if she didn’t want to help. She can help out in other ways, like not caring when you want to spend $5k on an automated loading system, or making and packing lunches and drinks for match day.

from below the waist, if your not bringing your hands up, and then down onto the gun to grip it, then it sounds like you may be scooping it out of the holster. Hopefully you don’t scoop it up and toss it someday.

This seems to always be the case because you can whip your hands down faster onto the gun, rather than raising them up over the gun and then down onto the gun to get your grip before drawing. I don't know of anyone who is faster from "hands relaxed at sides" than they are with "wrists above shoulders". But, then again, we are just a bunch of B, C, and D shooters. And, my draw is still faster. I really wish I wasn't too lazy to get some dry fire practice in. I understand the "Burkett Reloads" drill is great, but there is always something else that needs to be done...

I look forward to an update after you put a few hundred rounds through it. Thanks.

yeah, Carry Optics is about as close to Open as you should let your Glock get.

I had good luck going to each of the preferred online dealers listed on the Trijicon website and requesting a notification when the item was back in stock. In two cases it took less than a week for one of them to email me. Actually, there was a third too, but by the time I saw the email they were gone. If you do this, you should also create an account on each of those sites to speed up checkout when you get notified. It’s more than likely they will get a dozen or so in, and send out 100 email notices so you have to act fast. Mine were both the 5MOA dot size.

I got an email notice from MidwayUSA saying they had a limited quantity of Mark 7 auto drive Pro for Dillon 1050/1100 press in stock. I opted not to order one. The more I use my press, I only find I’d like to automate when I’m processing brass. During the loading phase I tend to stop too often to either make an adjustment, verify a charge weight, etc. During last nights loading session, out of about 1000 rounds, there were exactly 6 times that the bullet wouldn’t stay on the case when the shell plate rotated. At first I was annoyed, until I found that in all 6 instances, it was due to a cracked case. I think I am still learning too much about how this press works to consider automating. For now at least, I’ll stay in manual mode.

Yup, and every single one of us has a box of parts in our loading room to prove it.

Anxiously waiting for your review… My PCC has about 6,000 rounds through it since it’s last cleaning and is absolutely filthy. Having a new trigger to install might be just the motivation I need to clean it before it hits 10,000. But, I will say it is still running flawlessly.

“were sold”??? Damn, now your teasing us with something we can’t get. When will it ever end???

lol, we are worse than a bunch of chicks hanging out at the mall. “Oooh, did you see that purse? Where did she get it? I have to have one!” I can’t friggin believe how many “necessities” I’ve bought in the last couple of weeks just from these 3 threads we’ve all been hangin out in. Now that Johnny has shared that pic of his “purse”, I absolutely have to have one for each of my toolheads. Where did he say we could get them???

I don’t understand this. The shell plate rotates, so how can you align it with the machine base? I am probably missing something obvious here, sorry about that.

How many rounds should that spring be lasting? It does seem a bit on the light side. I thought I read somewhere on this board that someone replaced it with a 1911 recoil spring and it worked better. Now I need to go search for it. My press has less than 15,000 cycles on it.

thanks, I agree that when I went to 2 passes the stress level went down. I no longer worry about primers not getting ejected. I find I can crank the handle a good deal faster on the first pass and then slow down and focus a bit more on the loading pass.

Got it. Thanks.

lol, obviously you can tell that my comfort level with my 1100 isn’t quite there yet. My biggest fear is that with the ability to quickly load large quantities of ammo, I also have the ability to screw up large quantities of ammo. I keep that container of about 150 rounds I loaded without primers right by the press as a reminder to proceed cautiously and ask a lot of questions.

Please explain what you mean be dwell in your arm movement? Thanks.

Man, I just bought 2 of these. At least Trijicon is a reputable company, to deal with.

My biggest problem with this is that when I encounter a problem, before I think too deeply, I raise the handle to see what's going on. With my RL550, this was never a problem, but with the RL1100, this causes the loaded round that was just about to get crimped to advance and drop into my bin of loaded ammo. Now I have a bin of loaded rounds and one of them didn't get crimped. Unfortunately, this will keep me up at night, unless I now pull all the rounds out of the machine and individually run them all thru the crimping die. I HATE it when that happens. The ratchet prevents me from doing this, and gives me time to remove the loaded ammo bin before releasing the ratchet to raise the handle.

After I said that I got to thinking it might just be easier to remove the ratchet tab parts instead. It should have the same affect, right?

You’d get to shoot more with all the money saved by staying minor. When I switched from Limited Major to Production back around 2003, I bought a new Glock 34. I saved more than the cost of the gun after 2 years shooting 9mm. Then a few years later my kids started shooting too, and it’s been all 9mm ever since.

Hmm, I wonder what they would say if you didn’t have the glass to glue back in???

If you guys are not using the ratchet, why not just cut off the ratchet part and use the top portion as the spacer? And, this is probably a better thread to discuss some of the problems/issues I’m having with the RL1100 than the 2 pass thread, now that we’ve verified that nobody runs dirty brass they the first pass.

Why would you have to space out the cam bolt? It looks long enough to work just fine without the ratchet.

I definitely hear you guys, but I’m coming from 20+ years on a rl550 and never had auto-indexing. It kinda scares me a little, but I may have to remove it as I’m wasting too much time just getting it to work.