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This is a rough, budget prototype I threw together and have sized tens of thousands of boolits with. I bought a heavier duty press to upgrade the entry level lee press but haven't had to. I've even used a cheater bar on this a couple times when I had oversized boolits.
One day I'll upgrade this and build type 2 with pneumatic power and a boolit collator to automatically feed the boolits so all I have to do is push a button or switch.
It's crude but it works (and doesn't have trouble with wadcutters )
So far no bullet has been a feeding problem. The little stubby 103 grain 9mm give me the most grief as there is so little to grab on to, almost as bad as the .22. My square tube drop shoot is held in place by a 65# on/off magnet so it is just a matter of getting the angle right to fall into the die. Might try that and see how it works for you. Once a bullet drops into the die with the power of the pneumatic cylinder it is going to get pressed through, oversized or not.
When I get into the zone I do a consistent 35+ bullets a minute and can keep it up for several hundred before I need a break. The pneumatic feeder I constructed a while back is faster in operation, but the carousel of tubes holding the bullets has to be filled, so the time dropping bullets to fill the tubes negates the extra speed. so why not just drop the bullets into the shoot to begin with? I have just had to many irons in the fire to build a bullet collator to fill the tubes, so I am still doing it the old way feeding the shoot by hand.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |