A few hundred reason why dillon is awesome.

[Ryan500]

Had a little time to make some ammo today. If your in the market for a press I say dillon 650. Here is my day....

200 ish 223 50gr Noslers 25gr H335

50 ish 223 52gr Sierra HPBT 27gr H335

 

[moosedude]

mmmm looks ###y, how long did that take to do?

 

[Ryan500]

Actual time pulling the arm is probably 1.5 hours. I'm FAR from the 800 rounds an hour Dillon says is possible lol. Case feeder would help. I do weigh charges every 10-20 but they are always right. This thrower is very consistent.

 

[lacesout]

id like to try one. love my hornady stuff.

 

[easysauce]

love my dillon 550, can do about 200 per hour on the .45 takes a bit longer on the .223, but i think I go fairly slow, I stop and check powder and length every 25 rounds or so

 

[buckbrush]

using a 650 without a casefeeder is not ideal, as you know.

 

[Mick Jagger]

Don't have the case feeder yet.
But the 650 is a great machine.
I think if you have a case feeder and lots of primer tubes you can do 500-600 pistol rounds an hour.

Not that this is my goal but the case feeder is on the list of wanna have.

 

[Ryan500]

I agree. Case feeders got to be next. When the space allows I will buy one. I'm still reloading under the stairs for the winter haha.

 

[tjhaile]

I think if you have a case feeder and lots of primer tubes you can do 500-600 pistol rounds an hour.

This would be doable with pre-filled primer tubes even without a case feeder. I have timed myself at 10-12 minutes for 100 rounds on my 550 with empty case bin and bullet tray on the Strong Mount. The 650 with case feeder should have no problems greatly surpassing this rate.

 

[Mick Jagger]

I agree. Case feeders got to be next. When the space allows I will buy one. I'm still reloading under the stairs for the winter haha.

You could consider to cut down the case feeder arm to make overall height a bit shorter.

 

[Skyhawk]

With 9 primer tubes ready to go and one tube preloaded, I can easily achieve 1,000 9mm loads within an hour with the 650 and case feeder. That's of course without screw ups of any kind, and without stopping to check weigh powder or measure OAL. To be honest, I don't weigh powder very often since every time I do it's consistently right on to the 10th of a grain. But every case does get a visual check after it leaves the powder check station while I seat the bullet with my left hand. Once you're used to it, you will crank out a round basically as fast as you can fully cycle the handle. Each crank doesn't take much more than about 2 seconds once you get some practice.

 

[Anth_g]

I love my square deal b.

 

[buckbrush]

there is a fellow on the Cast Boolits Forum that timed his buddy and himself, one Loading on a 650 with case feeder and one using a SDB. He found the rounds per hour roughly equal, he credits the SDB short stroke for keeping them even.

 

[Thorvald]

My 650 has both the case feeder and an RCBS bullet feeder, so with each pull of the handle I get a completed round, no extra effort or hands required.

Each pull is about 1.5 seconds as I don't fly with it, so 40 completed rounds per minute for 2400 rounds in an hour (assuming I had enough primer tubes lol).

Love it but now I wish I had gone for the 1050 to get the automatic swage as that can slow you down on the 650 when that primer won't seat (currently manually swage with a Dillon Super Swage mounted right next to the press).

Cheers

 

[nada]

i get the same production as tjhaile , on my 550 , set up the same way . an honest 400/hr incl lube , delube , & filling primer tubes , aka 2400 in a 6hr work day .