Posted: 5/15/2017 10:04:00 PM EDT
| In a semi related thread some posters claimed the Dillon 650 does not make consistently sized ammunition. Has anyone else found this to be an issue and how much variance are we talking and how much of a problem is it? |
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Unless you are doing high volume...this man is right!!! Love the Forster Co-Ax
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In a semi related thread some posters claimed the Dillon 650 does not make consistently sized ammunition. Has anyone else found this to be an issue and how much variance are we talking and how much of a problem is it? http://www.uniquetek.com/product/T1333 |
| I have found the Dillon 650 to be very consistent when properly adjusted. The powder thrower adjustment seems much more accurate than my RCBS powder thrower. Having said that I tend to run the brass in a brass polisher, deprime and resize on a RCBS Rockchucker trim cases on an electric Lyman trimmer chamfer inside and out and clean primer pocket then hand prime with an RCBS tool. At that point I load them into the Dillon 650 let it add the powder and seat and crimp the bullet. I prefer the primer pocket to be clean. Often I do rifle cartirdges completely on the single stage RCBS because I want the powder charge exact. Most of the time consuming part of reloading is case prep. If a guy was making target ammo and didnt care about cleaning the primer pocket pistol ammo would easily be loaded only on the Dillon 650. I would be a bit more hesitant with rifle ammo but it can be done on it. If a guy was loading for a semi auto rifle and needed to make larger quantities of ammo and was able to afford new Lapua brass a Dillon 650 would crank out a lot pretty rapidly but with slight variance in powder charge not enough to be a problem so long as you stay away from maximum powder charge but if you load them HOT you best be exact and if you want true accuracy from rifles you best be exact on your powder charge and seating depth. With pistols at the distances involved plus or minus a couple thenths of a grain is not going to significantly effect accuracy result, but stretch a rifle out several hundred yards and a few tenths of a grain can be a big difference. I'm very happy with the Dillon 650 but if you only load rifle a single stage press running the Horniday lock and load die holders might be worth a look cause you can add them to a RCBS RockChucker then you dont have to adjut the die each time. With a Dillon you buy multiple plates and set your dies once then switch out the plate with the dies and the shell holder etc for each caliber change. |