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Haha yesProgressive press?
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Haha yesProgressive press?
That's one of the things I like about loading single stage, it's more personal, less machine like. Ooo, does that sound creepy?Haha yes
I had to get a progressive a couple years ago. I just couldn't keep up on my turret press or my single stage. I still have them both though and I use them off and on quite often. My youngest daughter got interested in shooting as well as my girlfriend. Too many trigger fingers. It's amazing how fast the pistol and carbine ammo disappears when everybody wants to go shooting for the weekendThat's one of the things I like about loading single stage, it's more personal, less machine like. Ooo, does that sound creepy?
I'll likely never shoot enough to need that much ammo at a time. I do admire the hell out of the machinery though.
Then I'd have to clean them because they sure as heck aren't going to do it . Thank God for non corrosive smokeless.Aw, just file it off and shoot it....
" It's amazing how fast the pistol and carbine ammo disappears when everybody wants to go shooting for the weekend."
Let them shoot a muzzle loader.
It slows them way down.
@Capn Jack pretty much beat me to it.Son of a b. No matter how careful I am it always seems like there is one problem child.
Over 2,000 rounds with no problem on my current setting and there it is. Where is that damn bullet puller?
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I'm pretty sure it will fit and Fire it went through a Lee Factory crimp dye. I marked it with a sharpie. I won't use it for anything important I'll just make it go bang in my Ruger@Capn Jack pretty much beat me to it.
I was gonna say, "Hammer it home and pull the trigger. It'll be fine..." (please don't!)
It always seems like one round out of a batch is a PIA.
You never seem to be able to find them all. It's an axiom of lifeThe other day I was about to load some 45-70s and got the last primer jammed in the primer pickup tube when I was about to drop them in the feeder tube on the press.
None of the primers had dropped yet so I emptied the pickup tube on the primer tray, cursing over having to pick them a second time, while getting the last one unstuck.
Cursing even more I started picking them up again.
Once done I turned the pickup tube upside down in order to get it to the press. That's when my cursing hit a new level - I had forgotten to put the stopper back into the pickup tube.
I spent the next 45 minutes on the floor and was able to recover 49 out of 50. Back in the old days I would have put my safety glasses and hearing protection on and played whacka-primer for a while and picked the dead ones up w the shop-vac.
Of course I should have dropped the ones that weren't stuck nto the feeder tube first and then gone after the last one - live and learn.
Very true, there could be a treasure trove under there.Seems like anything I drop rolls under the bench and I have to fight the spiders for it.
All I've got to say for that is, ouch. I hate when a few cases spill, a whole hopper, I'd probably cry, that stuffs not cheap anymore.Forgot to tighten down the retention screws on the Dillon Powder Measure.... first round pressed up and launched the completely full powder hopper onto the workbench. I was able to salvage about half a hopper full.
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