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Not so much a mistake but a correction? Not sure how to describe it but anyway, I recently got a progressive press and between placing a case in the holder, seating a primer, watching the powder cop, and setting a bullet on the case mouth, I discovered it to be a lot more mentally taxing than I would have ever expected.
More recently I added a bullet feeder to my setup (nothing fancy, just the manual Hornady tube set where you fill up tubes by hand and replace them as they run out) and it took out 75% of the concentration I needed. I never lose my place now, visually confirm the powder cop each time, and the cartridges come out plunk, plunk, plunk like clockwork.
I know that it sounds silly to gripe about the mental challenge of setting a bullet on a case mouth, and you may wonder if I'm a moron who can't walk and chew gum (I can in fact), but I found myself getting out of sync without the bullet feeder. Maybe it's because my left hand had to do all the grabbing and I'm right handed so I have to think more about what my left is doing. Or maybe I am a moron -- either way -- I see a bullet feeder as a necessary addition to a progressive press now.
More recently I added a bullet feeder to my setup (nothing fancy, just the manual Hornady tube set where you fill up tubes by hand and replace them as they run out) and it took out 75% of the concentration I needed. I never lose my place now, visually confirm the powder cop each time, and the cartridges come out plunk, plunk, plunk like clockwork.
I know that it sounds silly to gripe about the mental challenge of setting a bullet on a case mouth, and you may wonder if I'm a moron who can't walk and chew gum (I can in fact), but I found myself getting out of sync without the bullet feeder. Maybe it's because my left hand had to do all the grabbing and I'm right handed so I have to think more about what my left is doing. Or maybe I am a moron -- either way -- I see a bullet feeder as a necessary addition to a progressive press now.