wagonpilot Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 I am 350 rounds deep into the demise of my progressive reloading virginity. Bought a 650, a case feeder and all the goodies from Beno... arrived in three (shipping) days. One evening assembly and adjusting dies/powder drop. Most time consuming thing is feeding the primer tubes and case feeder. I know, not a very informative post, but had to howl to people who would understand. LOL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyZip Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Congrats! I love reloading. It is just too cool that you can make your own custom ammo as long as there are bullets, primers, and powder to load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROBIKE101 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 for the time being......................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supermoto Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 I recently got a 650 with a case feeder after years of loading on a Pro1000 and a LNL. The LNL is an absolute piece of crap. Would never run a 100 rounds without an issue, mainly caused by the case feeder. I'm 1200 rounds into the 650 and have not had one issue. Should have listened to everyone and got it the first time around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig N Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Congrats! I love reloading. It is just too cool that you can make your own custom ammo as long as there are bullets, primers, and powder to load. And Brass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lablover Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 I know the feeling..same thing happened to me a month ago or so......Can't get enough brass , primers etc...to cure the itch Congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonpilot Posted December 7, 2012 Author Share Posted December 7, 2012 2nd night with my new press and I am a 1000 .38's deep with no issues. Wellll not EXACTLY true. I did manage to turn a full primer tube over after forgetting to put the clip in. Pretty sure you only do that once... I hope. You know how long it took to single stage a 1000 rounds? Good grief I am so over that nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonshoxx Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 i am setting up the square deal b tommorow and will give a review when i get it running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thermobollocks Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 one of us, one of us The Dillon is hands-down the best use of money in my entire gun-having experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj mike Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 congrats on your 650 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traderpats Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Line from "Freaks", right? That's going back a long ways.... Yeah, the 650 with case feeder is the way to go. I bought on on Craigslist not too long ago. Was going to process my "stash" then re-sell most of it and get a 550 for day to day reloading. However after batch processing brass, WITH the Dillon case trimmer, case collator and all the other goodies there is no going back to anything less. The savings in time and effort are simply to nice... As for the primers I load as many tubes as I will need for my reloading session. Can prefill upto 500 if need be. Just fill them during "down time" and set them aside for use later. Makes a much more enjoyable experience not having to stop and peck primers.... one of us, one of us The Dillon is hands-down the best use of money in my entire gun-having experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowrider Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 (edited) Yeah, the 650 with case feeder is the way to go. I bought on on Craigslist not too long ago. Was going to process my "stash" then re-sell most of it and get a 550 for day to day reloading. However after batch processing brass, WITH the Dillon case trimmer, case collator and all the other goodies there is no going back to anything less. The savings in time and effort are simply to nice... As for the primers I load as many tubes as I will need for my reloading session. Can prefill upto 500 if need be. Just fill them during "down time" and set them aside for use later. Makes a much more enjoyable experience not having to stop and peck primers.... You know that is probably the easiest and most sensible route to take due to the cost, but that RF100 primer filler is calling my name. For some reason I'm still pretty good at getting them jammed up in the pickup tube and once in awhile I get one upside down. And +1 on the trimmer with case feeder. There just isn't a better way. Edited December 11, 2012 by Shadowrider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdub5818 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 (edited) I just took a scrap 2x4 and drilled a couple holes that holds all my primer tubes right by my press. Screwed it to the backstop of my bench, from behind of course, working great so far. Fill em all before I start a session, so i have the 100 in machine and 500 at the ready. Congrats on the machine man! I am pretty new to the 650 as well. Edited December 12, 2012 by vdub5818 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonpilot Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 Seems my new guy at the progressive, comfortable pace, looking into each case to see powder is about 500 .38's an hour. That is so cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canman Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I hope not putting the pin in the primer tube only happens once cause I got that out of the way early on! Never could find all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGibe Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I hope not putting the pin in the primer tube only happens once cause I got that out of the way early on! Never could find all of them. LOL. Did that once as well. Not fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy's Toy Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Aah, 100 primer pick up. Don't say it will only happen once, becuase the longer you reload, the more of a chance it will happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobmysterious Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Wait until you dump 100 into the primer magazine... and then dump another 100 in on top of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGibe Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Aah, 100 primer pick up. Don't say it will only happen once, becuase the longer you reload, the more of a chance it will happen again. Good point! I should have said it has "only" happened once so far. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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