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I ONLY use it in the manual mode. Really helps to get the bullet properly lined up for seating. With age, I tend to shake doing small muscle tasks and found it hard to place a 9mm/.38 bullet square...

I loved my L-N-L, but found several too-good-to-ignore deals on 1050s and my son wanted to reload so he got my L-N-L.
You need to have die bushings for each die.
Station 2 is usually the powder die...

Lee VMDs appear to be based on perfect powder packing for the bulk density. IF you note what charge you get at different settings, you can establish your own VMD. Then, the CC scale becomes quite...

After cleaning and before sizing.
If you bulge bust a loaded round, you can swage down a lead bullet (just as you can by using a Lee FCD for its intended purpose). The carbide ring on the FCD is...

vibrators are outside/garage equipment. Reloading tools are indoor equipment.
NO scale likes vibrations--whether from vibrators or press action. I am sure that every scale warns against vibration,...

Please note that the Lee Universal Expander does NOT expand the case. All it does it flare the case mouth. For proper fit and ease of bullet seating, you should use a "real" expander die that will...

1) The FCD has swaged down cast bullets. I know.
2) The FCD is designed to solve a problem that the reloader himself/herself should address--seating the bullet crooked and getting a bulge in the...

CM is absolutely worth it.
MidwayUSA has the CM Lite for $249.99 and the CM for $261.17.
Drift? I left my CM set for 4.9gn when I got called into the house. Three days later, the pan had 4.9gn of...

I prefer, as follows:
1) No need for a case collator: Hornady L-N-L
2) Absolutely have to have a case collator: Dillon 650
3) Don't care about all this and just want the "best:" Dillon 1050
PS: I...

Electronics almost always only have a 1-year warranty, unless you buy the extended warranty. RCBS, Apple, Samsung, etc.
You are using the weights that came with the unit?
They may offer a reduced...

It takes a VERY accurate gun and shooter to see accuracy differences in dies. Even then, powder, powder charge, and bullet are more significant.
The only die that has given me accuracy improvement...

It's German/UK junk (Henkel/Unilever).

You should have a slight roll crimp. You load them either flush or just below flush with the case mouth (so you put a very slight roll crimp so the rounds drop in the cylinder easily and the bullet...

Nope, I don't even use my 1050s to their full potential.
I have all the "automation" I need or want.

Others:
Camdex 2300 Series Large Rifle Loading Machine
Large Rifle Caliber Loader for 300...

Only one press and I still need to load thousands of rounds a year?
Dillon Super 1050.

.45 Colt cases come in a WIDE range of case wall thicknesses and that over-sizing is quite common for ALL companies. This is why you use an expander to bring ALL case IDs up to the target point....

Just look at that mini-tool head or the size of the shell plate. They couldn't make it any smaller.

You would be surprised, but the larger bullet is often the better bullet.
1) I wouldn't use ANY of the chosen bullets.
a) plated suck. If I want to get >8" groups at 25 yards, plated are the way to...

The first thing to learn about reloading is that almost EVERY article and manual deals with RIFLE reloading. For RIFLES, the Large is usually the best option. Always look at the pictures if you don't...

That and they get in cases and dies and everything else.
Then, wasps build nests.

Is this for compressing Black Powder? I have never heard of a compression die before.
I would say, that either you need to set the die/stem with a case/wad in it for alignment, or ease it up by hand.

Then, how does it work with a standard shell holder?
It sounds as though the whole thing depends on pretty critical dimensions between where the die body hits the shell holder/plate and where the...

I am more flailing my arms in the air trying to understand what the problem is then arguing anything about anything.
I have to admit that my first response was for the Lee straight-wall FCD, as the...

>I then discovered or rediscovered really that the Lee factory crimp die will not work on a LNL.

They work well on my L-N-L. What is the problem? Of course, they don't work well with some of my...

Give up on sizing first of all and lubing with stick lube next.
Try very light tumble lube. If LLA is not to your liking, get 45/45/10 from White Labs. Don't use so much lube that you can see it on...