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Posted: 10/19/2012 9:37:56 PM EDT
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I have been shooting firearms all of my life but I've never gotten into reloading.
This past Christmas my wife got me a dillion 650 and I'm about to start setting up my reloading room. What advice would you give to someone starting out and with absolutely no knowledge of reloading? I want to do it right and would really prefer if I didn't have my guns blow up on me. Thanks for any advice . |
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Read the tacked threads at the top of this forum, and buy the ABC's of reloading and read it cover to cover. You'll need to really understand what is happening at each station. Running a progressive isn't difficult, but you do need to understand what is going on and know what to look for.
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Been using a 550 for a long time, got it back in the 90s, and i would say to set up and understand
one stage at a time, then move on to set up the next one. Dont try to grasp it all at once. When you take your time, and that machine gets right, the ammo flows. It takes out the drudgery and lets you concentrate on QC. Sometimes my primers flip, so i am in the habit of pulling out the resized and primed case from the first station and looking to see its seated right, then puttin it back in to rotate the shell plate. I dont want to make a loaded round with inverted primer. I predict you will love that blue machine. WellStocked Scruff |
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Read, read, read, read. and then ask lots of questions.
Also, use your press with only one stage "activated" to begin with. It will help you learn each process as you will have only one single process to concentrate on at a time. With all of the stations active it may distract you and you could easily mess up. |
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Read the tacked threads at the top of this forum, and buy the ABC's of reloading and read it cover to cover. You'll need to really understand what is happening at each station. Running a progressive isn't difficult, but you do need to understand what is going on and know what to look for. This, it's not a difficult process you just need to be patient and pay attention to detail. Pick up Lyman's 49th Edition Reloading book as well to use for load information. |
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Read the tacked threads at the top of this forum, and buy the ABC's of reloading and read it cover to cover. You'll need to really understand what is happening at each station. Running a progressive isn't difficult, but you do need to understand what is going on and know what to look for. This, it's not a difficult process you just need to be patient and pay attention to detail. Pick up Lyman's 49th Edition Reloading book as well to use for load information. This. understand what each station does |
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Been using a 550 for a long time, got it back in the 90s, and i would say to set up and understand one stage at a time, then move on to set up the next one. Don't try to grasp it all at once. When you take your time, and that machine gets right, the ammo flows. It takes out the drudgery and lets you concentrate on QC. Sometimes my primers flip, so i am in the habit of pulling out the resized and primed case from the first station and looking to see its seated right, then puttin it back in to rotate the shell plate. I dont want to make a loaded round with inverted primer. I've loaded thousands of rounds on a Dillon 550B over the past decade and never had a single primer flip; do you have any idea what is causing that issue? |
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Quoted: Read, read, read, read. and then ask lots of questions. Also, use your press with only one stage "activated" to begin with. It will help you learn each process as you will have only one single process to concentrate on at a time. With all of the stations active it may distract you and you could easily mess up. probably easier to have all the stages activated but run one case at a time, eg. don't use the automatic primer or case feed |
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Read, read, read, read. and then ask lots of questions. Also, use your press with only one stage "activated" to begin with. It will help you learn each process as you will have only one single process to concentrate on at a time. With all of the stations active it may distract you and you could easily mess up. probably easier to have all the stages activated but run one case at a time, eg. don't use the automatic primer or case feed You could do that too. |
| I was having a flipped primer problem on my 550, I finally got it to stop by making sure the primer seating punch was exactly centered. On my machine, because the primer punch was slightly offset, it would rub on the shell plate until the spring would compress enough to force the primer punch up through the shell plate. When the shell plate let go, the spring would flip the primer. I used the measurements from the manual and turned the primer punch 180 degrees and the problem was resolved. |
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I have been shooting firearms all of my life but I've never gotten into reloading. This past Christmas my wife got me a dillion 650 and I'm about to start setting up my reloading room. What advice would you give to someone starting out and with absolutely no knowledge of reloading? I want to do it right and would really prefer if I didn't have my guns blow up on me. Thanks for any advice . dont let anyone scare you about starting off with a progressive, a lot of that has been thrown around here for years. I started out on a 650 a long time ago and havent had ANY bad experiences but am glad I did go with it to begin with. experience, read and research. that is what will do it. I was making 308 loads, make 3 or 4 step out back, try them, go back in and try something else. until i liked what i got. |
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Also, use your press with only one stage "activated" to begin with. It will help you learn each process as you will have only one single process to concentrate on at a time. With all of the stations active it may distract you and you could easily mess up. But NOT this. follow the directions the press came with. DO NOT learn to use a progressive like it was a single stage. you bought a progressive for a reason right? Besides, it isn't hard to make the bullets. it's doing it safely and making each and every one of them top quality. thats the important thing. I just looked into what i wanted in a round, then i whent from there. after i got that down i tried something else. |
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