What kind of reloader do you use?

[Sheepdog]

I use Dillon 650 and 1050 progressive reloaders. They work great, dependable and fast. I have heard all the talk about this and that might happen, but mine work great! Like all reloading you need to use common sense. Mine have over under charge, low powder and low primer alarms. I also do all due diligence when reloading. It is all up to what you want out of reloading. Some people trickle weigh every load and that's great. I shoot allot and would rather spend my time shooting than reloading. IMHO I feel the less you have to handle each round lessens the chances of making a mistake. Factory ammo is not made one round at a time. That's my .03 cents.

[skosh69]

Well said .

As a noob, I listened to to the "old timer's"/"wise ones" and the vote was unanimous that I get a single stage press aka Rock Chucker. Only your vote was for a progressive.

Now I don't shoot competition, only range plinking. But after a year now, if I had it all to buy over again, I'd of spent the extra and gone with a Dillon 550 or 650 with all the bells and whistles. Why? It sucks spending over an hour just to make 100 rds, doing every process 100 times. Sorry if it seems like I'm whining, but I like to work smart, not hard and a using a progressive press is just that, smart.

And if any of you know my story, I screwed the pooch on my first go around using my single stage and had a few squibs. Who's fault was that? It was mine, not mechanical.

Please remember, this is only MY OPINION.

[BadOscar]

I'm using a Dillon Square Deal. No bells and whistles on it. Once I get going I just put an empty case on stage 1 and place a bullet on stage 3 then pull the handle. I have a light that shines over stage 4 so I can visually inspect the powder charge each time I pull the handle. If the charge looks high or low at all I pull it off and weigh it on a digi. No matter what it weighs I never put it back. I dump the powder back in my powder measure. Then I skip loading the next empty and put the primed case I pulled back on stage 2 to get powder again.

It takes me about 10 minutes to switch over to a different caliber. I keep detailed notes on how many turns everything needs to move going from one caliber to another. I also have a lot of little colored marks on things that get adjusted referenced in my notes. Once I have changed out dies and set the powder measure and crimp per my notes I use an empty case to test the powder charge. I will measure at least 3 throws on both a manual balance and a digi to make sure it's right and the scales match. Then I seat a bullet in a deprimed case without powder and crimp it. I measure the OAL and the diameter of the case at the crimp with calipers and make fine adjustments if necessary. Then I load 100 primers in the tube and load ammo until empty.

[ColMike]

Lee classic turret, and removed the autoindex feature. I used a uniflo and 505 for powder dispensing, but recently ordered the pact combo. I like the turret quick change feature on this press. Lee sometimes gets a bad rap, but I have had no problems.

I have really ramped up my shooting lately and am considering a dillon. I am about to move into a 12x12 building for loading. i will have to configure my setup again..from a workmate to a room. Woohoo

[DaFadda]

+1 to Col. Mike above. For all the same reasons. I also use the Lee Classic turret for handgun rounds. I also load in batch mode. I do not use the primer loading function. I prefer to sit at the kitchen counter, talk to the Mrs.... and hand press primers using the RCBS hand primer thang.

FIRST PRESS? RCBS single stage Rockchucker. Still use it for .223 and other rifle rounds.

Da

[Riverpigusmc]

I'm using what all my friends donated to me

[JimF4M1s]

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[titanse05]

To me a progressive is the only way to go and I have a Hornady Lock-n-load. When I first got the press I setup each die station separately and then produced a single round at a time till I got the hang of it. I have a RCBS lockout die to keep me from under/over charging and havn't had any problems with the first 4k rounds loaded so far. I enjoy reloading and will continue to do so as long as I am able.

[deputybpfife]

Patiently waiting on the Dillon RL550B. I haven't reloaded at all yet, but in doing research, I decided that I wanted to go to a progressive press. To each his own... For me, I wanted to be able to reload a few hundred rounds fairly quickly. Looking forward to getting the toy to play with.

[Boats]

I use a Lee Classic Turret press for pistol (45 & 9mm), and with the indexer. I dump and weigh powder often and visually inspect every round. I do use the attached primer and find it to be almost completely reliable. I also use the disk style powder measure that comes with and have gotten it to work reliably.

For rifle (5.56 & 7.62) I use a Lee Breechlock Challenger single stage and a Uniflow powder measure with micrometer, all in batch mode as taught by Father Mike.

I have a Hornady Lock & Load powder scale and measure that I use infrequently.

Like Dave, I also like reloading. It gets me out by myself with my thoughts and relaxes me. I'm a medium volume shooter I guess. Maybe 1000 rounds of 45 a month, and much less of other calibers.

This setup works well for me and the only reason I could think of to move to something more sophisticated is because I'm an engineer and like fancy equipment

Tom