Handloader
03-12-2014, 10:30 PM
Off topic, kinda.....
I might have mentioned that the only thing I don't love about my 650 is the priming....
I would much rather seat my primers by hand with my el-cheapo 30 year old Lee hand primer. I usually just prime while watching tv, whatever. I have never used the priming arm on any of my single stage press, either. Just not enough 'feel' for loose pockets.
Loading primed cases into the 650 has absolutely no impact on output speed. Although, being retired, I'm never in that much of a hurry.
ha ha
ron
I hear ya, I have the Dillon 650 and the Hornady LocknLoAD AP. Both the priming systems are crappy, and after I had the Dillon roll a primer and the whole tube of primers had sympathetic detonation. That was it for me. I know one should wear ear muffs and safety glasses, but on the bench I find I often do not. I found the indicator rod up in the floor joist. I hand prime everything. Bottom line, by the time you figure out the primer is not working, enough powder as fell out the flash hole that you have to pull the assembly apart for a cleaning.
To the OP, for precision rifle or subsonic loads, I use an RCBS single stage, or I put a funnel on the progressive to put measured/weighed powder charges into the case. For all my semi-automatics and handguns, I let the powder dispenser do the work for me.
Another benefit of hand priming, I tumble the brass, lube, deprime and size, then I tumble again and prime. I have tumble loaded rounds before, but I do not like that (learned the hard way early on when shooting rounds that still had some lube on them. They were "hot" to begin with, and it took a wooden handle to beat my bolt open.....never again).
I might have mentioned that the only thing I don't love about my 650 is the priming....
I would much rather seat my primers by hand with my el-cheapo 30 year old Lee hand primer. I usually just prime while watching tv, whatever. I have never used the priming arm on any of my single stage press, either. Just not enough 'feel' for loose pockets.
Loading primed cases into the 650 has absolutely no impact on output speed. Although, being retired, I'm never in that much of a hurry.
ha ha
ron
I hear ya, I have the Dillon 650 and the Hornady LocknLoAD AP. Both the priming systems are crappy, and after I had the Dillon roll a primer and the whole tube of primers had sympathetic detonation. That was it for me. I know one should wear ear muffs and safety glasses, but on the bench I find I often do not. I found the indicator rod up in the floor joist. I hand prime everything. Bottom line, by the time you figure out the primer is not working, enough powder as fell out the flash hole that you have to pull the assembly apart for a cleaning.
To the OP, for precision rifle or subsonic loads, I use an RCBS single stage, or I put a funnel on the progressive to put measured/weighed powder charges into the case. For all my semi-automatics and handguns, I let the powder dispenser do the work for me.
Another benefit of hand priming, I tumble the brass, lube, deprime and size, then I tumble again and prime. I have tumble loaded rounds before, but I do not like that (learned the hard way early on when shooting rounds that still had some lube on them. They were "hot" to begin with, and it took a wooden handle to beat my bolt open.....never again).