A Merry Dillon Christmas for me !

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Road_Clam

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Talk about having the best family ! My wife, daughter and son all chipped in and bought dad a Dillon 650 ! I've been wanting one for a while now as i've developed some tendinitis in my right elbow from too much arm repititions loading pistol and 223 bulk on my LEE classic turret. It wasn't really an issue until as of the past couple years my wife has started shooting pistol so our pistol ammo usage has doubled. Spent the last week familiarizing myself, watching vids and so on. These Dillon's are just what they say as far as top of the line for recreational handloading. I almost bought a Dillon 550 way back when I wanted to initially get into handloading and glad I worked my way up from RCBS single , to the LEE CT , and now the Dillon. There is a LOT of detais you need to clearly understand to be sucessfull with the Dillon's. I must say as long as you have all the dies precisely adjusted the press works amazing ! I had to fabricate an adaptor plate on my riser setup to facilitate the need for the "overhang" when using the Dillon. My riser can still also mount my RCBS single. At some point I will probably rearrange my basement to allow the Dillon and the RCBS single to be permanently mounted.

 
Nice. I'm just running the numbers on .380 break even. 750..... Which is a lot of .380. It would take a couple hours and be a multi-year supply :/

I think I'll go .223 next.

What caliber are you starting with?
 
Jeffm004 said:
Nice. I'm just running the numbers on .380 break even. 750..... Which is a lot of .380. It would take a couple hours and be a multi-year supply :/

I think I'll go .223 next.

What caliber are you starting with?
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I'm going to get my feet wet with .357 mag first. Once I have a solid understanding of the 650 then move to bottleneck rifle. I bought extra conversion kits to do 9mm , .40 S&W , .223/556 , 308/30-06 , and 7.62x39. These are my needed higher "quantity" type calibers.
 
That family is a keeper!

They did very well.

Congrats!

After getting going with that setup...you will know why folks become Lee progressive basher's...lol
 
No regrets learning pistol and 223 bulk on my LEE turret. It did it's job perfect. No it's not the fastest but it did a quality job and was a big time saver vs single stage. For about $250 invested you can't go wrong with the LEE CT. It's just that the turret press really took it's toll on my arm joints.
 
No regrets learning pistol and 223 bulk on my LEE turret. It did it's job perfect. No it's not the fastest but it did a quality job and was a big time saver vs single stage. For about $250 invested you can't go wrong with the LEE CT. It's just that the turret press really took it's toll on my arm joints.
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I said nothing about the turret...I said Lee progressive's.

Although, I had the turret also and I got rid of it as mine required constant attention to maintain proper indexing.

I am not totally against Lee reloading tools, I use a lot of them...matter of fact, I sold my Rock Chucker because I like the Lee Classic Cast press, better.

But, in my opinion, the Lee progressive's are junk.
 
Merry Christmas indeed!

I love my 550b and have happily loads many thousands of rounds on it. They are great machines and a great company too. Don't forget to get a calendar as well..... ;)
 
Very nice, indeed, especially with the accessories.
Enjoy.
My 30 year old Square Deal is still going strong with only one rebuild using free parts from Dillon.
 
Very nice setup and an excellent family. Enjoy your new Dillon and every time you load on it think of the great family you have.
 
Nice setup, and great gift.
I got the square deal setup in all the calibers I load, and got rid of 2 red presses.
Happy blue new year.
 
You just gotta love it when the 'Blue' shows up, if for no other reason than to 'Tinker' with something that IS going to work when you are done!
 
So today I finally did a perfect trouble free run of 357 mag. My only screw up was I did not know to first cycle the loader a few times "empty" to allow the primer carousel disc to become loaded. If you start loading shells right away you end up with about 3 shells loaded with powder and no primers. Made a HUGE mess from H110 ball powder getting dumped all over my press components. Had to disassemble everything clean, re grease and assemble. So now I learned how to synchronize the shells and the primers to merge together at the correct time. The only other issue I had was the long plastic primer warning shaft was sticking in the tube and not working smoothly. There was some excess plastic casting flash at the bottom of the rod. I shaved off the excess flash with a razor blade and now the shaft runs nice and free up and down the tube.
 
Wow, really nice ... as someone else commented that family is a keeper. Do you need a step stool to get to the case feeder? :p
 
Made a 650 tool head rack from some extra lumber I had lying around, works pretty slick , no need to buy the individual tool head stands.

 
I giggle like a kid at xmas when the Dillon boxes come in.
NOT work related!

Well, at least the family will know where to find you! :)
 
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