Your press is plenty strong, but the RC has a compound leverage system like your 550:
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Your press is plenty strong, but the RC has a compound leverage system like your 550:
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Ah, copy. Maybe someday I will upgrade. I've tried Imperial Sizing Wax, Royal CaseLube, and homemade lanolin/pure alcohol case lube.
I remember when you were trying to sell off the single stage press and I tried to talk you out of it, now you are talking upgrade :)
A Rockchucker is something you can troll for and snag when opportunity presents. BTW, my press in the photo is probably almost as old as yours, I think Dad bought it when I was about 14yo.
It is probably just gonna take some ass, after all a 62,000psi explosion took place inside the case you are squeezing.
Maybe an interim plan could be to setup the 550 for sizing. You could de-prime in the first station with a Lee decapper, they are kinda cool, they have a collet and you can set it loose so it will slide if you get a Berdan or something. What I am doing for 223 is also use a carbide neck button in a subsequent die. This is handy if you stick one, because the top of the die is open and you can drop something in it to drive it out. But then you probably have the 550 setup to do something else and don't wanna tamper with it all the time, but this could be an option.
ETA: Not sure how MUCH leverage you gain, but your shoulder (is the right side the one with issues?) might appreciate it.
No, my gunshot arm can handle it fine, I was just concerned on whether or not I was doing it right. I gifted the 550 to my brother, I have a 650 now. I also gifted my RCBS Jr2 to this guy and he uses it for depriming and processing crimped 5.56
Dude, full length resizing .308 on the RCBS Jr.? Poor little guy.
I don't do much full length sizing but when I do, I use my buddy's Forster Coax. I only neck size my precision .308 and .260, so that's easy to do on the Jr.
Edit: just read that you're using a Dillon for sizing. Good idea.
He is one of the nicest guys. Talked to him a few times at perry. One day winds were in the 20 mph range and I was a newer competitor he started conversation with going to be tough or there off hand. I responded with tough for you really fucking tough for some of us. His response. Line up the sights and pull the trigger they will be close enough we have all
Been there.
That made my day and week.
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After shooting fish with shotguns, and watching David slaying shit without even having to mount the shotgun, combined with the ballistic and reloading conversation + some time on the bench behind his long range rifle baboon hunting rifle I felt a little out my element.
Fortunately for me, he wanted to shoot the steel ranges at the facility with pistols, and gave me an opportunity for some redemption. I felt much better about myself, and my fragile ego, while scarred, at least healed a little bit after crushing him on every course of fire.
Thanks for this..I recently set up my 650 with a Dillon size/trim die, for .223 it works quite well holding about -.000 +.002 tolerence. With the casefeeder running, one can size and trim a bunch of cases, like right now. I've got the sizing die set up on station #3 and the die used for neck expansion set up on station #5, to clear the electric motor. The problem with the size/trim die is you need a way to expand the neck after sizing. I've been using a older .223 size die that I adjusted up a bit so that all I was doing was expanding the neck.. it works, but this looks so much better.. I'll probably buy one of these soon. I like this idea alot.. Thanks
You bet. I've become a firm believer in it. I was struggling one day shooting brand new Lapua brass at 600yd steel. Known good load, windage spot on. I was actually taking chunks out of the t-post. My buddy suspected bad neck tension and got me hooked up with the die. Now I use it on new brass right out of the box to take care of any issues. I also will run it thru after I bump the shoulder to assure inside neck uniformity. After you use it a bit and get familiar to the feel, it all makes sense and you wonder why its not more commonly used.