favorite equipment

My in-line Fab mount for my RCBS press. Reloading is so much better when it's up where I can see it. Also it's nice not to have the arm of the press not hit me in the crotch...

Tony
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+2 in a big way!
Best 'Design Change' I've made in 30 years was a TALL BENCH this time!

Then Dillon wouldn't be linked with benchrest.
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It's been 15 years, but every bench rest shooter I knew, and the few I currently hang out with used a single stage/single die with a full STEEL 'O' ring frame,
Like the old Rock Chuckers used to be.

A surprising number of bench rest shooters made their own press frames... I never got that ambitious...
 
I got some premium lock rings from Sinclair that did not work.
I called up and explained that the knurling was upsetting material and not taking material off. I sent them a drawing [primitive sketch with toleranced dimensions].

I told them they should give me some new rings, even though I could make a mandrel and fix the rings on my lathe....for doing their engineering for them.

They fixed their problem and sent me a bunch of rings for free:)

http://www.sinclairintl.com/reloadi...rades/sinclair-lock-rings-3pk--prod38782.aspx
 
The only piece of 'Support' equipment that has gone with me everywhere and still works as advertised,
RCBS hand primer. One primer at a time, pain to change primer sizes, accepts shell plates from the press.

ABSOLUTELY ACCURATE PRIMER INSERTION without flattening out stubborn primers.
Great 'Feel' for how the primer is going in...

It was probably one of my first purchases 40 years ago when I was still using a hand held bullet seater,
And it's stayed with me because of it's usefulness down through the years...

I'm surprised I didn't loose the small parts for it!
 
USPSA will tell you...

"2014 survey of USPSA handgun nationals:
83% handload their own ammo
of those 83% that handload, 95% use Dillon. Hornady 2%, Lee 2%, RCBS 1%.
What this means? Those that shoot for competition and NEED quick & accurate loads good enough to win competitions rely on Dillon."

Don't know about these statistics but...

Last time I saw the inside of the Army Marksmanship Units reloading room...

EVERYTHING was Dillon BLUE...

Not 83% but 100% Dillon!

That's enough evidence for me...

T.
 
cigars,

Clarence E Purdie in 1965 patented the co ax press and sliding sleeve seater die.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3440923.pdf
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3345903.pdf

Two great patents, in my opinion.
Not as good as Einstein in 1905 writing (4) great papers; the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy.

To discover and name the photon beats the co-ax press.
But inside the world of reloading, Purdie is the best we've got.
 
Ditto on the sliding sleeve seat die now marketed by Forster. It forgives lots of sins otherwise committed on the reloading bench.

Also ditto on the raised height of the reloading bench. Mine is 42" tall and brings things into the proper perspective for details to accuracy.

A third thing for me is the older RCBS bench mounted priming tools. One of the best reloading tools ever invented.
 
Probably my Lyman Case Prep center. I held of buying one but after I finally did it makes these old hands feel much better. Since I like to prime on the press, Lee Safety prime works great for me too.
 
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