Hambo, you are a funny guy, and you can be the one to tell my wife that she has to put up with the tumbler running in the living room.
I'm there for you, brother. My bench is now in the house proper, instead of the attached workshop. How did I sell that? My wife got the ex-reloading area for all her garden tools. She's happy, and while it's not in the living room, I went from window AC and a small TV to central air and College Game Day.
ETA-Tumbling is still better left in the garage.
Last edited by Hambo; 02-02-2016 at 03:11 PM.
"Gunfighting is a thinking man's game. So we might want to bring thinking back into it."-MDFA
Beware of my temper, and the dog that I've found...
This is not how you do reloading. You pick a color and then defend it to the death from all corners. You do not regret your RCBS, you double down on its superiority.
But for serious, they all make bullets. I've never heard any meaningful complaints about an RCBS single stage. The only way you're going to "get it right" the first time is if you buy a Dillion progressive*, so there's no use worrying over how optimal your first purchase is. You'll eventually amortize the cost and wind up using it as a backup to a progressive anyway. In 5 years it won't matter.
*- I kid. Mostly.
Last edited by jh9; 02-02-2016 at 04:24 PM.
They look awesome. Some of the issue might be the thousands of rounds I loaded on the 550 prior to trying the Loadmaster. When it was rocking it just rocked, but any little thing that went wrong took a bit to unravel. And little things would go wrong. There is lots of www info about little tweaks and if you want to put in the squeeze you will probably get the juice, but I bailed and went back to terra firma, the 550. If you have reloading experience and no Dillon experience you might live happily ever after. Some of my decision could have been just how conditioned I was to the feel of the stroke. I probably loaded on a 550 for thirty years before I tried, though...