Here comes Santa Claus

[powderburner]

and that folks is why iron is such a good guy

[Kurt]

ya but Dean you only get .08 cents a pound when you take it to the scrap yard

[powderburner]

I dont think he is gonna sell his pistol shootin mama to the scrap yard Kurt.


Dead eye wife = good husband

[Don McDowell]

Hmmm I'm wondering is the Dillon really that much better, or does the pretty girls in the Blue Press magazine have a major influence

[powderburner]

Dylan's are awful hard to beat for dependability they just don't break and they just keep working in my humble opinion

[Nuclearcricket]

Don, I got my Dillon before the Blue Press came out, in fact I got it before Dillon went factory direct. I had met Mr Dillon many many years ago and at that time he was pissed about so many different places selling his presses at different priced. I heard him say that he was going to come out with a F@#$ everyone advertising program and it was shortly after that that Dillon went factory direct.
I don't know if a Dillon press is better than the other progressives out on the market but I am pretty sure that they were one of the first progressives designed for moderately high production and low cost. I am pretty sure that at one point more match ammunition had been loaded on Dillon press's than any other press and that may still be true today.
Now if your a number's kind of a guy, this may be of some interest to you. The ram in 1 1/2" in diameter, the handle is 15" long and the opening from shell plate to the bottom of the powder/expander die is about 4". That makes for enough room to load most any standard cartridge you would want to load a bunch of. You can also remove a round at any station for inspection very easily. There is also no reason at all that you could not use this press to just load a box or so of what ever trips your fancy. Caliber conversion kits will run you in the neighbor hood of $45 or so. Less if you just need the powder/expander tube.
Sam

[Don McDowell]

Sure do hear a lot of good things about the Dillon. I'll just have to get around to deciding if I want a progressive press , go with a turret, or just get another O frame, and send this old Rockchuker in to have it rebuilt..

[Ironramrod]

The Dillon presses are a very good piece of equipment, but if increasing the speed of reloading isn't all that important some of the turret presses would perform just as well w/ lower start-up costs. We set up a Lee turret press for my wife to get started reloading her .45 ACP shells, and it works very good. The only problem she had w/ it is after she became a better shooter in several years of shooting she couldn't keep up her reloading w/ her shooting opportunities. I also hear a lot of good things about the Redding turret presses, but I'm not familiar w/ them. However, the Redding turret presses probably function very similar to the Lee turret presses.

The Dillon press we have for my wife is the 550, and it does everything she needs, and allows her to easily check each case for correct powder levels. The 650 has too many bells and whistles, and checking powder levels is difficult. Overloads of Bullseye don't treat a .45 acp very well at all.

Regards
IR

[Kurt]

I never used a Dillon but the Star was a very good progressive press that loaded a lot of my cases. Star was for metallic like Ponsness Warren as for shot shells. I still have the Ponsness Warren sitting on my bench unused now for some 20 years.

[Gussy]

I had a varmint shooting problem for a lot of years and finally solved it. In the past, when I was at the house and saw a varmint, the rifle was in the shop. So I'd bring it back to the house. Then I'd see a varmint while at the shop.......

Last yr on a forum there was an add for a Remington 700BDL in 222. Exactly like the one that was always in the wrong place. Problem solved. Both are excellent shooters and both even like the same load, or at least close enough for minute of varmint!!

I've always liked the 222 and also the 223 but I've had that old 222 for at least 40 years and it's still shooting good. Like 1/2" groups with the right load.