PREDAT0R

doesn't that defeat the purpose of loading on a progressive press?

Zactly. I cast bullets and see far more blemished then you will ever see on jacketed bullets and all mine fly true.

The balance of my order has now been delivered. I spent Thursday night un-boxing and mounting the press. And actually got a chance to run off a box of 45ACP. Yes, one box. I wanted to do a caliber conversion to .223 and get set up for a few hundred of those. I had zero issues right out of the box loading the .45's. The only thing that I noticed that was not kosher is the powder measure and static with Bullseye like powder. residual grains would not empty making it necessary to disassemble the unit before change to a different powder. I have loaded for close to 35 years on an RCBS Rock Chucker so all of my die sets are on RCBS flavor except the carbide .223 from Dillon. I did not find the seat crimp die to be problematic in any way and having the 3rd station open was kind of nice for powder inspection and bullet placement. Cant wait til summer!

My press arrived Saturday while I was out bow hunting. I arrowed 2 buck so I have been too busy to even open the shipping box as of yet. I also just received confirmation that my component order has been completed so till that comes in all I would be able to do is look at it anyway and that would be pushing unbearable.

I remember when the green machine was introduced, I wanted a progressive right then. It has taken til now for that to come to fruition. Distractions, priorities and the rut being what they are.Starting to get impatient. It's been 4 days now. And I am still waiting. Waiting for my component order as well.

I never have on straight wall carbide dies. Only on bottle neck rifle dies. Lately I have been tumbling with the addition of a dryer sheet. Cases come out polished and slick.

It is the beginning of efficiency and volume I agree. For 35 years all of my volume reloading has been done on a Rock Chucker. Loading up 1000 rds of .223 in a few hours has never even been a dream let alone a possibility. Oh, and by the way, I did get 5k primers, along with 12 lbs powder and 6k 55 gr soft points. Its a start.

Finally. Placed an order late last night for an rl550. And thanks to some great leads from this forum, I have a couple of shopping carts of components just waiting for confirmation.

I could get 5k primers, but then I couldn't get a press.

An excellent point and considering the hazmat/shipping charge, group bulk purchases make the most $$$ sense. I'm pretty active in local competition (most reload), so getting together a few people isn't difficult (most of the time). I keep in touch with a lot of shooters, and people who reload..... a pretty vast network now Most are great, and always willing to help in a pinch (during the height of our recent components shortage I paid it forward and hooked a few people up with powder at cost +shipping/hazmat). ~g I agree and will try to get something of the sort set up. This time around though I am going it alone. 10 lbs powder 3k primers 2 k bullets and some. Just anxious

Email sent, now we wait Thanks to all for info, leads and suggestions submitted to this thread. It saved me a lot of time and probably aggravation.

That's what I am going to do. Email used to be so f-in simple. now it has become such a pain in the arss since it is no longer included with the standard OS.

i have probably created an order on his site a dozen times before and the actual order never materialized. And before you just mentioned it I had a wishlist running on DP's site. And now, on Brian Enos, at least a best effort of one. I dont know what it is about generating an order on his site that seems to be so difficult. I suspect it is like when they came out the 1040ez tax form after I filed many years on the std 1040. There was nothing ez about the ez.. Maybe it was too simple for us intellects.

Yeah, I can see why. NO BS is huge Dumping a lot of cash today

Guess I will give TAC a try. Finalizing the 550b shopping cart.