jaredr

Congrats on the new blaster!

Hey, any idea when you'll be releasing the 5.56 gauge?

if cost is no issue, the 1050 beats the 650 hands down.

i'm loading more and more 45-70 on my 650 and beginning to really miss the casefeeder. I currently just remove the casefeed body bushing and casefeed adapter and drop the cartridges through the hole in the casefeed body assembly into station 1 - gets tedious when you're spoiled with a casefeeder for every other caliber. I'm considering buying the XL650 magnum caliber conversion but couldn't find much info about it on the dillon site. had a few questions for Dillon and/or anyone who's got experience with it 1) looks like this is a more or less permanent conversion (or at least not a trivial install that I would want to swap back and forth). picture on dillon's site shows you have to replace the clear plastic case feed and microswitch assembly, and you have to use new cartridge tubes, any idea what the third item is in the middle? 2) once you have this installed, can you still use it to feed non-magnum (i.e. 9mm, .40S&W, etc) cartridges or do you have to swap this whole conversion back and forth (or dedicate a casefeeder just to magnum cartridges? 3) If you can use the "magnum" conversion for smaller cartridges, how well does it work? Keen to see how a 9mm feeds reliably through something big enough to accept a 45-70. 4) in addition to the xl650 magnum caliber conversion, do i need anything else to feed .45-70 cartridges? I already have the .45-70 caliber conversion (shellplate, locator pins, station 1 locator, casefeed adaptor) 4) including obligatory pics of my cool suppressed cut down guide gun for no good reason.

ha - I have to refill the primer tube about every 5 minutes (or less) when running the machine by hand. my opinion (and experience, at least with the Ponsness Warren) - autodrive systems work no faster than running the machine manually. systems that may actually work (such as the forscht) will save you some wear and tear on your rotator cuff but won't increase your loading rate. on the other hand, if you run any autodrive system you'll need to be incredibly meticulous about case preparation to avoid any materials contamination. That additional time and effort will burn up any actual "savings" in loading time which you may achieve by using an autodrive...

http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=88898&hl=%2Bautodrive#entry1029346 if you do a search you can find various other posts on the PW autodrive systems. my post above is actually more tactful than i would put it now having spent more time with the autodrive system since i wrote that (and then ultimately soid all of my autodrives). in my experience the PW autodrive unfortunately doesn't work well at all on the 1050, at least not for performing any resizing operations and particularly for resizing rifle brass. The camming mechanism used by the Posness Warren system puts a great deal of stress on the press frame which (even though it is cast iron) will flex under load. If there is a particularly tough piece of prvi brass in station 2, then the press frame flexes a bit more. if there is a nice soft(er) piece of federal brass in station 2, then the press frame flexes less. As the frame flexes, you end up with inconsistent travel on the "handle" from one round to the next as it is being pushed forward by the autodrive system. this then results in inconsistent travel of the toolhead (i.e. if you don't pull the handle completely, the toolhead doesn't travel completely). Even though the variation may only result in a difference of toolhead travel of a few hundredth's of an inch, that's more then enough to give you the occasional high primer (when loading) or improperly resized cartridge shoulder (when processing brass). both of those suck, but only one causes a slamfire... additionally, running an autodrive requires meticulous cartridge preparation and attention to detail to avoid materials contamination. If you're loading by hand and you've got a single .380 cartridge mixed in with 9mm, no problem - you notice it and pull it off the shellplate. if you have the auto drive, the shellplate will bind and things will typically break before you can shut them down. If you have the drive system adjusted so that the clutch will slip in this scenario, then it will also fail on resizing tough brass and you'll end up with lots of improperly resized cartridges. $0.02 version - autodrive systems for dillon presses look cool but are expensive as hell and imho yield poor results.

Ditch the autodrive and you've got a great deal.

struggled for a while to say something but that pretty much says it all for me. god bless.

i don't want anyone to take this the wrong way, but in retrospect i think we all may want to be careful when making any public references to their efforts at mastering Rob's "one-handed cock" or describing any physical discomfort which may have resulted from those actions...

Hand over heart, tears in the eyes...

i had two. they ran fine (i.e. no malfunctions for 50-100 rounds) when run unsuppressed. when run in a 10.5" gun with an M42K, both mags turned into a maracca within 1/2 a mag (i.e. rounds jammed inside the mag tube binding the follower and loose rounds could be heard rattling around the inside).

i remember that. i gave up after 30 minutes and a right pec muscle that felt like a worn-out dishrag.

i'm waiting for video of jmorris' computer-controlled hydraulically-driven automated kid-feeder

Petzl climbing gloves. my current pair has lasted longer than my last three pairs of mechanics gloves...

have used winchester for everything (small and large rifle, small and large pistol) for several years. have half a sleeve of federal small pistol primers that I am working my way through loading .38 special specifically for a few bullseye revolvers but everything else gets ww. tried remington 7 1/2 for 5.56 and had lots of issues with primers not seating properly on my 1050, went back to ww and issues went away...

Common sense trumps all

bought some CR speed mag pouches for my son to use, he is currently shooting a 22/45. haven't seen any spacers advertised to allow using a CR speed mag pouch for 22/45 mag so was going to fab some out of delrin, figured i would check the board first and see if I am missing anything. Anyone else using any commercial sold spacers to adapt a CR speed mag pouch to hold single stack rimfire mags? Thanks in advance!

fyi - this was actually a "viral" marketing video for the first planet of the apes movie... me llamo es buzzkill-jared

aargh! that totally blows my posturing on station as a super high-speed tactical shooter. sneering at the target array with a steely-eyed gaze as I walk into the starting box. sounding like i'm back-up percussion for a mariachi band...

just installed some dawson +5 tool-free mag extensions (with dawson extra power spring) on gen 4 glock 17 mags. can easily load 22 rounds but man, they rattle like crazy. have not had a chance to function test (will get to the range this week and try them out) but even if they work fine, i have to say the rattling noise of loaded rounds rolling around in the mag is unnerving. anyone else seen this behaviour with the dawson tool-free +5 baseplates? did a search through the forums and didn't see any reference to this so did not think this was common behaviour for this product.

speaking only for myself as the owner of numerous dillon presses (650 and 1050 at the moment), this is the kind of professional courteous service that has earned Dillon an almost religious following here and abroad.

my $0.02 - if the machine is 2 months old and shipped with the pawl in that condition, you shouldn't have to pay a dime for Dillon to replace it - they should send it out promptly and do so courteously. The 1050 is a $1700 machine, customers shouldn't have to pay out of pocket to cover poor QC nor should they have to put up with rude service.

sorry to hear that you've had such an underwhelming experience with Dillon CS while my interactions haven't been uniformly wonderful over the years, i've never had to deal with the attitude you are describing. If you purchased your 1050 new from Dillon within the last year, your entitled to parts and labor coverage from dillon. if your machine shipped to you with the feed pawl in the condition that you showed in your earlier post, then you are entitled to have the part replaced at no cost. I would call back and make a point to talk to the customer service manager and (as I'm sure you will) calmly and courteously explain your service history. I am hopeful that they will treat you right. FWIW, damage to the feed pawl is a common failure when running a posness warren autodrive system (which dillon explicitly advises is not covered by their warranty). i gather this fellow tim is implying that you have damaged your machine by using such an autodrive system and is implying that you are being dishonest or untruthful when you indicate the contrary. I don't think that's appropriate customer service behaviour and I'd like to think Mike Dillon would agree.

fixed it for you i've had miserable experience with UPS on almost every signature-required delivery i can remember. i do business with a couple of retail gunshops that flat-out refuse to accept delivery via Fedex for exactly the same reasons (their FFL's actually state that fedex deliveries will be refused "if they ever arrive" ) bottom line for me is it's a crap shoot with either vendor...

not sure if the damage to the pawl face is severe enough to cause a failure to index but it <definitely> shouldn't look like that. would call dillon and get it replaced ASAP.