dickwholliday

i still use the RCBS system.......i put it on an old single stage press and can do about 17 or so per minute.....i let the next shell i'm swaging knock the previous one off the press into skeet boxes on the floor....goes real quick...... however a buddy just got a 1050 set up for 223 so i expect i'll be using it for swaging since i just got another 6000 Hornady55's....D I C K

Darn....i hate to hear that the brass for these has come down in cost because i saved a boat load of it while working at an indoor range a while back.....just in case i ever got a toy that would shoot them....i hear that there is a conversion so you can shoot them using the FN 50 rd mag on an AR15 conversion.....D I C K

i was trying to load some flat base 308 remington 165's in Dillon power trimmed cases and none would seat without crushing the neck until i chamfered the inside of the neck with one of those VLD chamfering tools..... on a side note my accuracy was not good so i removed my Lee FCD and accuracy improved....D I C K

As many machinists are involved with this forum yu'd think one could come up with something........D I C K

i haven't explored it yet but it seems like to me that if someone could figure out how to put an RCBS 3 way cutter on the Dillon that it sure would make life easier for the guys that shoot a flat base bullet occasionally.....D I C K

i've seen a bunch of 22 conversions over the years but after reading a NRA article years ago i bought the Marvel and as far as i'm concerned it is the King of the hill....plus now that the assault ban is over (For a While) you can get 15 round mags for it....the test target i got with mine was under 1/2 inch at 50 yards....i've got the rail top version that i run an aimpoint on.... going back to the NRA story....the author shot every conversion you ever heard of (and some you haven't) with just about every 22 ammo you ever heard of and i seem to remember that the marvel outshot them all.....D I C K

i was there myself and had a great time (except my 60 year old hip was killing me)....i saw Leatham shoot on Friday and as usual he was smoking.......come to think of it he was limping also........i shoot B Limited and the bright spot of the weekend was i won Senior Limited (in spite of having a screw up or three) ........D I C K

i've looked through the both of the major magnifiiers bu aimpoint and eotech and have noticed that niether is adjustable for a particular shooters vision requirements like a scope will have with the eyepiece.....both of them were fuzzy unless i raised my glasses to use my trifocals closer in focus planes....these things don't work for me......so if you wear corrective lenses you may have trouble with these things......D I C K

+1 I cut one coil and I drag my finger on the shell plate as well when it rotates. It keeps powder spill down quite a bit. No, no, no...move the seating die back to station four. Move the powder drop to station three. That way, as the case comes down with the fresh charge, you put a bullet on it to cap it BEFORE the press indexes towards the bottom of the stroke! This will ELIMINATE powder spills on a 650. The powder measure return bar is shaped so that you can put the drop on station two or three. Hey Stockdon......I'd never would have tried that....but now i've got mine set up like that and gonna give it a try......thanks....D I C K

i bought a Lee collet neck sizer and am careful to only use it on brass that i can keep up with so it won't get in with my SHTF ammo.....loading with it is some of the easiest reloading you'll ever do.......D I C K

Hey Brian....thanks for the note........as i stated this unit was used and i did start to notice a pretty good burr on some on the inside of the case neck........i looked to see what might be causing it and noticed that there was a worn area where the carbide blade trims the case.....i tried to flip it to one of the other two surfaces and could see the same sort of wear.......the carbide blade used in this unit is a standard industrial lathe tool cutter and i went to a buddies machine shop and he had some of the same one on hand......he gave me a few so i should be good for years to come....i've since done a couple of thousand and every now and then i'll stop and run a sharp object in the case mouth to check for a burr and there is none....good shoot'n........D I C K

I got this thing along with some stuff i bought from a guy a year or two ago and it's sat on the shelf until now........it didn't want to run to start with but after i figured out that one of the brushes was missing, i got it going by sawing the other brush into two pieces and it started right up.....by the way i called the good ole boys at Dillon and you guessed it.....new brushes are on the way at no charge.....i even tried to give them a credit card but the rep wouldn't take it.... The only trim die i've got is 308 and i've got a bunch of Commercial brass and LC match brass so not having to do the primer pocket swaging really makes the case prep process go fast......i guess i should order a trim die in 223 but i've never trimmed a 223 anyway for use in an AR....My AR's just don't seem to care.......i'm sizing using a Dillon 650 with a carbide die in station 1 and the trimmer in station 3 i wondered about chamfering the necks like my RCBS three cutter will do and the Dillon won't do but so far i'm not having any issues with that with the 200 or so i've loaded so far....... This is a great piece of equipment....D I C K

i just took the EGW out of my 40 because i got tired of having every forth case or so hitting the non chamfered bottom of the die when trying to raise them into the sizer....D I C K also a previous post says to ttry it without the FCD....that may be part of the problem....i barely remember back in my teens trying to resize some loaded rounds in a 45 ACPO due to a neck tension problem....after sizing the loaded rounds the bullets practically would fall out of the case......

i once saw one that a guy found in a dumpster and believe it or not and it looked a whole lot worse than that one....i don't know what ever happened to it but given what i've read above i wish i'd bought it from him....D I C K

Since my last post i've cut the ball spring with not much help in the issue and moved my seating die to #3 location and am still getting powder.....i guess i could be getting some from the powder drop location......since the powder is well below the shoulder that may be the issue....i'll try giving it a second or so more time to finish the powder drop before lowering the ram........thanks again....D I C K

i've used nothing but nushine for some time now......i cut it with mineral spirits about 40-50%....D I C K

i did a search and kept getting error messages....i'm pretty sure this has been covered but i can't find it.......when my 650 rotates it slings out a little AA2200 which i blow off as needed......i put some rubber washers under the locator pins which retards the shell from shaking a little so i only have to blow it off every 100 rounds or so...anybody got any better suggestions?? thanks....D I C K

i've been messing with military brass since the 70's and as a result have tried every new gadget (including the Dillon) to get it out and i always go back to the RCBS....one thing i tried that may give you something to thing about was the old C&H method....it had a swager punch that popped into the shellholder and a die that screwed into the single stage loader which had a shellholder in it....the downside to it was that you were limited by the strength of the rim as to how much force you could put on it.....after popping a few dozen out of the shellholder i gave up on it....D I C K

mine doesn't have a sliding gate but i guess i can jerry rig something.....that should do it when i come up with something....thanks....D I C K

not to give you a short answer but most of the 9mm carbines i've shot including my colt will shoot everything i've ever put in them and do it well including commercial cast bullets and even my old Lee tumble lube bullets that haven't even been sized.......with the cost of lead and jacketed bullets these days, i would shoot the bullet that i can obtain for the least amount of $ and the same goes for the powder......D I C K

i'm setting my 650 up for 223 and didn't even get past setting up the case feeder before i started having problems......i did a search on this forum and found a post dealing with this but to be honest i didn't quite understand the replies......the brass goes in the small rifle plate just fine but i notice that some lay neck forward and some with the neck to the rear.....the neck to the rear ones do just fine and so do most of the neck forward ones but occasionally i guess one of the neck forward ones falls on down neck first....any suggestions to cure this....thanks....D I C K

years ago i used Lacquer thinner to wash the lube off of 223 and others.......i'm paying for it now when i shoot that ammo.....the necks are so brittle that just going from the mag to the barrel will split them......some will lose the entire neck when fired which sometimes remains in the barrel but generally is recovered by the next round which will of course fail to chamber........D I C K

Seems like the last time i sent something to them i had to send something like $35 with it......D I C K

The CCI's are definitely harder IMO.....i loaded some in my cowboy guns and got light strikes in guns that will always pop a winchester primer.....D I C K uote name='gm iprod' date='Jan 11 2008, 09:02 PM' post='684818'] I got very cheap some years ago a huge amount of CCI500 and CCI550, I have never experienced light strikes in an auto with CCI500, I also used some CCI small pistol magnum vs Federal 200, same results, they do however seem to produce higher velocities with certain powders, all fast Winchesters and Hodgdon TiteGroup and TightWad, I also found that they also give me a higher extreme spread. I think it is the way they work with ball powders. As soon as they ran out I did not go out of my way to get some more.

i just ordered replacement lenses for my Ranger glasses from Jack Wills in Fredericksburg Va...i got one set with my distance RX and an extra lense for my dominant eye with the RX for my front sight....i've done it this way for years and it works great....D I C K