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I bought a 550b about 30 years ago when I was shooting steels with a .45, and a lot of .223. Later I stumbled onto a great buy on a used SDB. Left the 550 set up for .223, and used the SDB for...

which is best? You need to size some brass with each and compare the results. Seat some bullets and compare again. You need a means to measure concentricity and diameter.

interesting reading the various experiences. That said "in gravity I trust". For me digital is fine for segregating brass and bullets, but I rely on a balance beam scale, and check weights for...

thanks oldbear. RIP Mike.

actually, you can use other brand rings, just not all of them. RCBS, for one has changed their ring style a number of times, and some of their rings work, as do some of the Redding, C&H, and...

graphite or Moly powder.

very sad news. I dropped by their shop about 20 years ago. The owner gave me a personal tour of their production facility and we chatted about how we got into casting. He on his mothers stove...

the screw is probably stripped, it is very fine thread. You might try pushing on it with a very small punch as you unscrew it. FYI, mine has been stripped since I bought the rifle, but it stays...

Had the same problem. There was a burr on the rear surface of the magazine tube. I chamfered the magazine tube with a rat tail file. Fixed it.. I believe there is a video on Youtube that shows...

I crimp cast bullets, and jacketed that are fed from a tubular magazine. I do not crimp jacketed that are fed from a magazine well or single fed.

ask to speak to someone else, or be stealthy and call again another time and when you get a different person, ask the same question. There are rare occasions that Dillon has an employee that just...

funnest pistol is a '60's vintage Ruger Standard Model 4". It shoots as well as my MKI and MKIV. Only .22 rifle is a Cooper which prints one hole groups regularly....As a boy, my first gun was a...

I have a similar can, acquired new a d full in the early 1970's. I am still shooting red dot I bought in 1978...

I have loaded and fired about 1,600 Fiocchi spp so far. 100% reliability and feed and seat very well with my SDB. I will keep buying them.

yes a typo....Formica is nice, but he already said he beat the veneer to splinters on his current top. Masonite is cheap to replace and makes a great, sacrificial, work surface for work benches.

Masonire (tempered fiber board) makes an great, easily replaced work surface for a work bench.

no. Starline is very consistent quality, that said I have never trimmed straight wall brass. But I have only been hand loading since 1964. Sorry for the sarcasm, but I do shoot several thousand...

I use RCBS or Lyman 30-30 dies with an "M" expander for cast boolet loads. The Lyman dies date from my first experience with hand loading....JFK had just been elected. The "M" die was a much later...

Funny, that is how I felt about the Lyman 55, I never got to liking it.

I have used RCBS Uniflow, RCBS Duomatic, Redding, Belding and Mull, Lyman 55, Lee, RCBS Little Dandy, and Culver. I like the Culver the best, but it is the most expensive by a large margin. Second...

Single stage: Bonanza Co-Ax
Pistol: Dillon SDB

Only 5 at present. Pacific C, Bonanza Co-Ax, Dillon 550b, Dillon SDB, and Ponsnes Warren 375. The Pacific hasn't been used in about 30 years, when I bought the 550b. I had a Huntington hand press...

I have an older Rossi in .357. It was rough to load, but there are a few good videos on Youtube that will show you how to smooth it up. It is worth the effort. Mine now loads and shoots .357 and...

Several years ago I had a bunch of Federal bulk pack .22 lr. It was for my grandkids to plink with. We were experiencing miss fires at about 3 to 5 rounds per hundred.. I would rechamber the...

I am a SDB fan as well. I load all of my pistol ctg's with one. I currently load .38 spl./.357 mag., 9mm, .44 spl./mag., .41 mag., .45 acp, and .45 Colt. My SDB came to me second hand, and was a...