Hornady Lnl Primer Tubes In A Rf100?

[milanuk]

Well, the topic says it all... will Hornady primer tubes from a Lock-N-Load AP work in a Dillon RF100?

Thanks,

Monte

[EricW]

Hi Monte,

Maybe. But since Dillon provides you with a tube to do this (or should have), why would you want to? As long as you can place the RF100 near your press, there's very little time loss over having a bunch of primer tubes pre-loaded.

You really want to use the shielded tube that Dillon provides. If a primer accidentally detonates, it will direct the resulting blast away from your face. I've thought about doing what you're talking about, but the one in a millon chance of detonating a sensitive primer has kept me from going there.

(And I duct-taped my pack to my rifle last night like you suggested. I have a few choice words for you the next time we meet. That idea is right up there with the time during the snowcamping trip when my Scoutmaster told me to hang my wet Levis out at night because it would freeze the water out of them and they'd be dry the next morning. )

Back to the question, if you REALLY want to pre-load tubes, maybe you could have P.K. (he's got a machine shop now and is back to gun-plumbing) work you up an adapter to fill the Hornady tube from the Dillon tube. Heck a piece of rubber tubing and a cable tie might work.

FWIW...

[milanuk]

EricW,

I don't have a RF100 yet, but I'm very seriously considering getting one. Probably the least enjoyable part of using my 550 is filling the tubes. Then again, I rarely do marathon reloading sessions... I don't shoot much pistol yet so 500rds tends to last me a little while.

I've been considering breaking from the herd and getting a L-n-L AP to compare against a buddies 650 for a variety of reasons. The one thing that would annoy me highly is if I went w/ a higher capacity press w/ auto-indexing and motorized case feeder and had to go back to manually filling primer tubes...

About that back pack... probably kind of a trade-off... if you put enough in it to make it useful from Prone, it's probably not much fun from the other positions; if you don't pack it as full it might be a little too limp for good Prone support.

Put the ole' Harris BRMS (6-9" swivel w/ Pod-Loc, pop-out legs w/ detents) back on the 6mm BR this evening... gonna have to get used to that again... I was kind of groovin' on shooting that thing F-Class from a Sinclair front rest and Bald Eagle rear bag. Might have to dial the trigger back up a smidge... me thinks 2-3 oz. might be a little hairy for general use!

Monte

Edited March 19, 2006 by milanuk

[JohnRodriguez]

Well, the topic says it all... will Hornady primer tubes from a Lock-N-Load AP work in a Dillon RF100?

Thanks,

Monte

I don't know....I use a L-N-L AP, and what I have done is just bought a bunch of small and large pistal primer tubes from dillion and use them in it. I've never used the hornady tubes, don't really know what became of them. if you do go with the hornady, then purchase a whole separate primer tube, base assembly and have one large pistol and one small pistol assembly, it will make swaping calibers a lot faster.

If dillion was to get away from there silly powder slide bar system and go to the system that hornady uses, I would get to dillion in a heartbeat. Hint, Hint, Gary and Jason, I'll be more than happy to help you come up with a new powder system for the dillion 550, 650, or 1050. My crony sheet don't lie. See you guys this weekend at Rio.

Edited May 1, 2006 by JohnRodriguez