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I moved from a 650 to an 1100. I converted them both to low mass balls. Both would still spill a little powder if you're cranking on them with cases that are pretty full. I certainly do not think the 1100 is worse. You will like the upgrade. I upgraded mostly to get the swagger and extra stations. But the better priming is for sure another plus.

I have always had great luck with Win primers, old and new. #41's, 209's, LRP, SRP. Never had a bad one in 10's of 1000's of them. Ran them through my RCBS loader, a Dillon 650 and now a Dillon 1100. I don't have any issues with any of the other common brands of primers either.

This. I bought one from him a couple of years ago. He advertised it here.

Clays is great for low flash and works well with plated 115gr RN. Cycles all of our 9's with low recoil and low flash. But it does seem hard to get. I have a bunch, so the wife and I shoot it quite a bit.

Agreed. I did buy some #41 Winchester primers during the pandemic, 'cause they were fairly reasonably priced. I'd already been using SRP in 9mm with no issues, so figured they'd worked too. Wrong. So I bought the extended firing pin from GGW. Didn't make any difference, those are just hard primers. Worked great in my AR though. I also had CGW mill the slide for an SRO. I'm very happy with their work.

I also use the 11.5# spring, from Cajun Gunworks. They have a lot of great options. DA is just in the 6-7lb range and very smooth. As you read the feedback, some are talking about the non-trigger tuned S2's, so keep that in mind. I have 15+ thousand rounds through my S2 Orange and the trigger has always been smooth and crisp. Do a little spring swapping and I'm sure it will make you happy.

Nice! Thanks. It would be nice to be able to run some of those stick powders in a progressive.

Why not just do it once, on the 1100? I've loaded a few thousand .223's with my 1100 and have not had any primer issues to speak of, FWIW.

This helps a bit also, especially for when the primer tube is nearing empty: https://www.ebay.com/itm/144445252662

Ammoseek.com is your friend.

It's a bit of a journey, but worth it.

Yep, the stop primer is a good thing! Not sure how easy they are to find for the 650 these days though. The UFO light is a must add too, IMO.

I have an Armanov toolhead. I use it to deprime and size my .223/5.56. Works great for that, but I don't have any kind of autodrive on it.

Just bought a RL550C for my 6.5CM. I was tempted to go with the BL, and should have in hindsight. I knew I was going to drop the powder using a funnel in station 2, so don't need another powder measure. I have several of them already for my 650 and 1100. But I thought the auto primer would be worth it. For the extra money, I still feel like those extras justified it. But it's not doing a great job of seating primers (CCI BR's) in my very clean or new 6.5CM brass, so I went back to hand priming them anyway. The main reason I went to the 550 is the much more consistent OAL, which it has done a great job of. I don't want to go to a single stage, so this is a nice compromise.

Cool gun. The lack of a decocker does worry me a bit, but I'll likely end up with one anyway. My range gun is an S2 Orange, so it would a good fit as a CC gun.