new to progressive. need help choosing press

[jmorris]

Hornady could easily fix the problem by making bullet feed dies for rifle cartridges like they do for handgun cartridges, but have chosen not to.

I think the fact that you have to feed the bullet up into the die is a likely reason why they do not make a rifle bullet feeder, it would be pointless if they just got knocked off moving to the seating station.

The only bullet feeder that I know of that feeds and seats at the same station is the GSI and they only make them for Dillon machines.

 

[wogpotter]

Depends what round we are talking about but I had issues even with 308 with one of the LNL's I had.

Problem was with the way the LNL indexes, half on the way down and the other half on the way up.

So, you size a case on #1, prime it on "1.5", charge it on 2 then set the bullet on top of the case on the next down stroke, call it 2.5, then the bullet tip is already too high to enter the seat die as the press finishes the second half of the index to#3 and the bullet is knocked off the case.

Wow! I did not know that about the L&L!
For me, as I load .38Spl/.357 mag, .308 & the even longer .303 Brit that makes it a "gimmee" for the Dillon over the Hornady as far as I'm concerned.

I never did a side by side comparison of the two as I had an old RL450 & inherited a newer RL550 when a friend passed away so I went with the upgrade.