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  1. You're spot on with the spring loaded Dillon dies. They are better at preventing primer pullback than any other decapping die I've used. I don't know if this will work in your case but you can use an oversized Dillon resizing die as sort of a "universal" decapping die. With pistol brass, a 45 resize/decap die becomes a spring loaded decap-only die for smaller cartridges like 40, 9mm, 380 since the brass is smaller than the resizing ring. I don't work with rifle cartridges though so couldn't say whether any of the pistol dies would work without affecting the shape of the rifle brass. I imagine the center of the die may be too large for the necked cartridge or the die may not be deep enough.
  2. I with flyingrhino on this one. I spent many hours trying to make those Hornady bullet feed dies work. With some polishing and bending, I got them to feed coated lead bullets (Blue and Bayou) but when I would start running rounds through my machine, eventually a bullet would come through that had a tiny bump/bubble/glob and it would jam the Hornady bullet dropper. The best I could get with coated lead was maybe 20-30 rounds before it would jam. I switched to the Mr. Bullet Feeder (Double Alpha) droppers and wow what a difference. These MBF droppers will feed anything you throw at them. I ran 400 rounds through the MBF 9mm dropper last weekend without a hitch. I made a Youtube video to show people how to adapt the Double Alpha bullet droppers to the Hornady bullet feeder. If you search on Youtube "hornady bullet feeder with mr bullet feeder dropper", you'll see the video uploaded by Sparky. I made the adapters out of PVC pipe. By the way, another issue with the Hornady bullet droppers is they require what I believe to be excessive flaring of the brass. The flare numbers are published right in their users manual and it produces quite a bell mouth. The Double Alpha droppers will work with minimal flare which I think is better.
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