Wanting my to start reloading

[Urban_Hunter]

Sounds like you're taking it personal, don't know why. It *should* be a civil conversation.

Whenever this discussion comes up, people who argue against progressives for whatever reason seem to forget that a manually operated progressive, like the RL-550, can be operated as a multi-single stage press not just as a progressive press.

In other words, there's no reason to run 4 rounds through at once. You can do one, two, three or four as you need to. You can also do just one operation at a time (e.g. resize and deprime only).

Want to individually measure the powder for each round? Nothing stopping you. Just remove the resized and reprimed case out of the press, load the powder into the case via whatever you process you want, reenter into the press to seat the bullet and so on. It's not hard to load accurate rounds with it and then change it to full progressive and really crank out the rounds when you want to. Something that, by definition, can't be done with a single stage.

In other words, with a progressive like the RL-550, you have lots of options as you gain experience and decide to shoot and reload different calibers. The biggest downside is the cost.

No I mean nothing personal, maybe I misspoke when I asked if you read the comments. I literally meant "did you read the comments" because they were funny. A lot of people commenting that had no idea what they were talking about then followed up with people asking what in the world is going on in here.

I would also say you are correct in being able to break down the stages of a progressive press if desired. I know of a turret press older than I am with thousands of rounds ran through it that has almost NEVER been ran with the indexer in place. I'm glad you like the 550, they're great presses no doubt. Personally I think there is great value in slowing down and learning initially on a simple single stage press one step at a time. I don't shoot a ton and what I do shoot is rarely 100's of rounds of the same cartridge with the same recipe, so the need for me just isn't there for a progressive. If I ever get to retire here in 90-100 years maybe I'll get a chance to shoot more [emoji1]

 

[FTG-05]

Here is a good article about what I was talking about: http://www.65guys.com/precision-from-a-progressive-reloader/

And by the by: Does anyone here know who David Tubb is? More importantly, anyone here think they can shoot better than him? :stir:

 

[Hardwoodmaterials]

Of all the info. in this post lets get down to the real issue with reloading that everyone should be able to agree on! Case prep SUCKS! Get you a good case prep center. I have the Frankford Arsenal Platinum that I like since it trims, camfers, deburrs and cleans primer pockets if you need to. There is plenty of different brands out there just get the one you like and go with it. The case prep centers make things much easier and less time consuming than trying to do it all by hand.

 

[Jcalder]

Of all the info. in this post lets get down to the real issue with reloading that everyone should be able to agree on! Case prep SUCKS! Get you a good case prep center. I have the Frankford Arsenal Platinum that I like since it trims, camfers, deburrs and cleans primer pockets if you need to. There is plenty of different brands out there just get the one you like and go with it. The case prep centers make things much easier and less time consuming than trying to do it all by hand.

I couldn't agree with this more. Every time I get into a batch I think about getting one of the prep centers. Then, I think of s the components I could buy. Same was said about a chargemaster. I recently got one and glad I did. Prep center will be next once I get an adequate supply built, I just don't know what that is lol


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[Urban_Hunter]

Of all the info. in this post lets get down to the real issue with reloading that everyone should be able to agree on! Case prep SUCKS! Get you a good case prep center. I have the Frankford Arsenal Platinum that I like since it trims, camfers, deburrs and cleans primer pockets if you need to. There is plenty of different brands out there just get the one you like and go with it. The case prep centers make things much easier and less time consuming than trying to do it all by hand.

I couldn't agree with this more. Every time I get into a batch I think about getting one of the prep centers. Then, I think of s the components I could buy. Same was said about a chargemaster. I recently got one and glad I did. Prep center will be next once I get an adequate supply built, I just don't know what that is lol


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Exactly what I did. Once I got the chargemaster it's like the case prep got twice as sucky. I got the Lyman for $99. It does a good job

 

[Hardwoodmaterials]

I got one of the Frankfort Arsenal Platinum case prep centers when they had them on Overstock.com for around $50! I think they are around $150 usually but they really make case prep a breeze compared to my old handheld tools.

I have a Chargemaster Lite coming for Christmas from my wife. She got it for around $135 after the RCBS rebate.

 

[DaveB]

Yep, case prep is not a labor of love.

Have never tried one of the case prep center tools. Tempted, believe me.

My biggest temptation was case prep for my 223 brass, all of which was once fired, a goodly number of which were crimped. At the time I toughed it out because soaking my hands in hot water at end of day helps.

BTW my Lee Loadmaster throws a 5.3 gr charge of CFEPistol with what I consider to be an astonishing degree of accuracy.