Of course the price is steep. But they now have their own press design.
http://www.markvii-loading.com/The-M...ion_p_332.html
Of course the price is steep. But they now have their own press design.
http://www.markvii-loading.com/The-M...ion_p_332.html
Only $9500? You'd be stupid not to jump on that deal.
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Aaron
I'm daydreaming about all the reloading supplies (bullets, powder, etc...) I could get for that price and all the quality time I could spend with my single stage.
Its no wonder there is a war on drugs. Someone has to be smoking something to think they can command almost 10K . A person can purchase a Dillon 650 or 1050 and install the automated piece to run the press and have less than 1/2 of what that piece costs. Just my .02.
On the other side of the coin....if I were rich I'd probably have a dozen of them just because I could.
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Idk, I reload because I love to and although I do own a 650 I got off the "More-faster" treadmill a few years ago. Now I spend a lot if time on my Co-ax. I can still fire up my 650 and knock out 1000+ an hour and that is plenty for me and mine. It is cool that they brought everything in-house and are producing their own press. Reddirt
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that automatic (at least it looks that way) primer feed that you could just dump a pack or two of primers into would be cool
Never wanted to - my three station Bair Brown Bair is as close as I want to come. I'm not in the business of selling ammo, nor do I have any fully auto guns.
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I'll pass, not only because of the price, but because it is yet another rotary press. What we need is a reliable, inline press. Too bad RCBS couldn't get their act together w/ the Green Machine, or CH w/ their's.
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its practical on the contingency of several "ifs"
1. IF you have that much disposable money.
2. IF it works FLAWLESSLY....650's do not play well with automation...too many cases get hung on the ejector
spring ....plastic ring indexers break if too much pressure is applied when thing bind up.
3. IF you rather not or could not yank a handle for 2 hours straight for 1/20 of the round this could potentially
produce.
probably a few other reasons i've missed.
but if i could afford one...you bet!
If Ole Murphy ever gets loose around one of these machines...well...it ain't gonna be pretty.
I think I'm gonna go down right now and tell my 'hand crank' progressive just how much I appreciate it.
Maybe give a squirt or two of lube and a good dusting of air...
If I watched these automated loading videos enough, I think I'd start having nightmares.
These machines step over the line between casual handloading and a 'job of work'.
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They aren't meant for the casual reloader. They are meant for people that need a lot of production for competition. Or someone who is making a business out of it. If I actively competed I wouldn't hesitate to buy an automated press of some sort. The mechanical part doesn't scare me one bit. The less time away from my family the better.
If you're buying one of these as a means to make money you better buy redundancy. If you need one machine to run at all times you better have three. Two would be the minimum but that statistically leaves you vulnerable. The company I work for has been selling data center units to the likes of Facebook, Apple and Google to the tune of $250 million an order. They all have tens of millions in equipment just sitting idle. Redundancy is one thing most small businesses don't think about or can't afford. Sorry for the slight thread drift.
My turret press is all the speed I want. I shoot a lot but I still enjoy the reloading process. As someone else has said, $9500 will buy a lot of powder and primers. And a few old reloading tools for the collection as well. I have all the boolit lead I can ever use in the next 3 lifetimes.
Although I would still like an inline press. Auto champ or green machine would just be cool!!!
I don't even load on my XL650 more than 2 or 3 times a year anymore. Most of my loading is done on a Lyman T-Mag II. I have no need for that.
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