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40 Berrys Flat Nose Plated 180 Alliant E3 3.9 CCI SP Nickel Plated 500 45 Berrys Flat Nose Plated 230 Alliant E3 6.7 CCI SP Brass 100 45 Berrys Flat Nose Plated 230 Alliant E3 4.7 Federal LPM Brass 100 My .40 & .45 loads with E3, works well. Accurate.

For the 650, UniqueTek makes a spent primer adapter with vinyl tubing, my primers drop into an ammo can, no more spent primers all over.

I use E3 for 9mm, .40 and .45, shoots great, no tumbling, clean, low smoke. About to work on a .38 special load with it. Very similar load data to Red Dot.

For 12 ga, I load Remington STS hulls with 7/8 oz of #7.5, 17 grains of E3 and more or less any 209 primers (I use CCI) with Claybuster CB0178-12 wads, consistent loads that bust clays all day long. Nice light load, low recoil in my Beretta 391. I have loaded thousands of these, work well in my brothers 391, bro in laws over under, solid load right out of the Alliant book.

Agree!

Conversion kit and die kit, my advice, get another toolhead and stand, that way switching calibers is very easy, dies are already set assuming you're using the same recipe for each caliber. Just check the first 10 or so rounds and spot check after that. I rotate through 9mm, .40, .45 and .380 this way. Costs a little more but man is it less work switching calibers. Dillon sent me an entire primer feed assembly when I had a primer detonation chain reaction, so now one is set for LPP, the other for SPP, so even that makes switching from SPP to LPP easier, two bolts! Had the spare parts kit to fix the old primer assembly and get the press back up and running before Dillon shipped the new assembly.

Well, it finally happened to me. I was loading .45 ACP LP brass with Federal LPM primers, had one apparently get in the disk upside down (?!) which I can't figure out how that could have happened. I use a RCBS flip tray and manually pick up the primers with the Dillon primer tubes, not sure how I could have missed one as I am pretty careful. The primer was seated in very clearly upside down in the case, no resistance that was unusual until the bang. Fortunately I only had about 10 primers total in the press, but it was still fairly loud and scared the poop out of me. Upon initial inspection, all primers in the disk and a few in the tube went off at the same time. The low primer plunger left it's top in the OSB of my upstairs decking, I had a .45 case for extra weight, so that is embedded up there as well I suspect, or it / they bounced who knows where. I didn't dig into the R30 insulation in the garage to look yet, I can see the hole they made in the insulation. Found the plunger rod all corkscrewed and broken, aluminium primer tube has a couple of deformities on the bottom, had at least one primer in there. Shell plate and primer disk appear OK, not sure about the priming assembly, I took it off and put it back on to check the shell plate and primer disk, not sure if it is damaged or not. Glad the press was not fully loaded with primers! Sent Dillon an email, will call tomorrow since it is Labor Day today. Glad the press' design did it's job, no injury to me, no major damage. After my reading about Federal primers being 'soft' and easier to detonate, I am not sure I want to use them anymore. My luck with CCI for 4k rounds has been fine. After a lot of reading the 650 is known to have this happen infrequently with most incidents happening with Federal primers, but also with some other brands. Be careful! I am upgrading my safety glasses to whatever I find that seems the most bomber, tough I can find. We'll see what Dillon has to say, not really sure what all I need to replace apart from the obvious. Jason

Been loading Berry's 180 plated HP with 3.9 grains of E3. The 1.2 OAL would not load more than one round in my Sig p226 mags, shortened to 1.17, got about 6 rounds in, then something was binding. OAL now set to 1.155 and it seems to work fine. About to go test a few hundred more today. Burns clean and no noticeable smoke, very interesting to shoot side by side with Power Pistol, much less recoil with the E3 loads. Need to chrono both to see how they compare. So far I like E3 for .40, need to try it for 9mm and .45 next.