Anything better than a 650 ?

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Talljoe

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Reloaded on a single station press for years. Really happy to get 100 rounds in an afternoon, and also really tired.

Got a Dillon 550, but traded it for a 650 with electric case feed very quickly. Can now produce 100 rounds in six minutes, plus a couple minutes to charge the primer tube and take a few swigs of tea.

Easy 300 rounds in a half hour with no stress. It is not entirely without problems, mainly jams related to case feed from the bowl to the chute which are usually quickly cleared.

So my question is........is there a better press out there ?

TJ
 
yup 1050

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then it sep up in price

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Yes there is better reloading presses out there (1050) but they are considered commercial and only have a 1 year warranty. Where as the Dillon 650 is life time warranty!
Lubricate your brass with Lyman spray and the Dillon 650 turns into a smooth bullet spitting machine at 800 rounds an hour. Maybe more but I only have 7 primer tubes for large pistol primers and only so many bullets. Sure go through the bullets and brass in a hurry.
Enjoy it!
 
I walked downstairs at 3.10 this afternoon and had loaded 200 rounds by 3.25. The machine was empty apart from powder in the measure so I had to load the primer tubes, and the case feed hopper.

That equates to 800 an hour altho I don't think I could keep it up that long. Strangely it's the bulet feeding hand I find gets tired.

I think it's brilliant, but would be open to options. I can't see how the 1050 could load any quicker. What about other makes ?

TJ
 
:p What the heck! That's not fast enough? Unless you had 20 mags all loaded you would be pretty hard pressed to shoot 200 rounds in that same time. How fast do you need to go?
 
The 1050 is by far the best volume reloading machine for pistol and some rifle reloading the average user needs.

Because it has a massive amount of leverage and does everything on the downstroke, including priming, it is faster.

It does have a downside, beyond cost. It does take longer to convert between calibers. People will harp about it's one year warranty. Don't listen. Anything that's likely to break that's affected by the warranty will either fail in the first thousand rounds, or never will. Possibly the bell crank migh suffer a failure given enough use, and if it does fail, I doubt you'd regret the $$ it costs to replace.

You say your bullet feeding hand gets tired?

Odds are you've got your press mounted too high. If possible, set up your press so your left hand can stay at a normal rest height for working.
 
I guess it depends on your needs, my 650 is outstanding for me, I make about 2000 over 2 evenings, by then I have enough for a couple of months of shooting. Because my reloading space is temporary I like to run a big batch after I take the time to set up everything. A 1050 would be faster and I could make more in the same time, but I have no room to store more than this, so for me the 650 is perfect.
 
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