J.S. Sooner, SASS #73526

In PA, Topton, 1st Sunday, New Holland, 2nd Sunday, Hamburg 3rd Sunday (not every month), Mainville 2nd Sunday, and Matamoras, 2nd Sunday are all 45 minutes to 2 hours away. In NJ Shongum, 3rd Sunday and Jackson, 4th Sunday, are about 1 1/2 hrs away. Nothing in Bucks - Montgomery area. Elstonville and North Mountain are shooting also but a longer drive.

Are you running specials instead of loaded down mag brass? We used 44 mag brass for loads in Boomer's Marlin to maintain longer OAL.

A LGS near me has two for sale, great prices. I didn't look at them for condition. Marlin 39A 22lr 1961 $599 Marlin 39A 22lr 1987 $629

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Could be an older primer drop to be. MEC did have priming systems that worked wire tubes instead of the tray type. Prior user may have changed it to a tray system. The tubes may fit if they are large enough for 209 primers. A friend had the tube style and said he used a longer proper size curtain rod that would hold more primers. I sold a MEC 650 with tube feed. Turned a piece of aluminum tubing to fit.

May need adjustment. https://www.mecoutdoors.com/Images/document/grabber.pdf

You need a pusher like this. I have different types and shapes. Sell them at local matches. Some attach to a bullet bag/ block others hang it on their knife or in an extra ammo loop on their belt.

Great price for that package. Well worth 4x the price. I bought 2 Mec 600 jr's at a yard sale a couple years ago, found a couple missing parts and flipped them, more than doubled my investment. The primary parts missing on these presses are the priming cup, anvil and spring. Primer catch trays are usually gone but any small plastic works.

Above on station 6, final crimp, my Grabber. Below on station 5.

A corroded, stuck primer and really mess up your day on a progressive loader. That is the only time I ran into much resistance pulling the handle on my 8567N Grabber. Now I run the hulls through a collet sizer - de primer on my Size master before loading on the progressive.

Smokeless, just wipe them off before sizing and de-priming on my Size master. I like to find problem hulls prior to loading on my Grabber. I will wash black powder shells if I want to reuse the hulls. Wash them in a bucket of soapy water outside. I did them in the kitchen sink one time many years ago. Thought I could get it done before my wife and daughter returned home from shopping. Didn't work, I got the stinky eye from both of them as the kitchen smelled like the fireside circle on Blazing Saddles with all the cowboys eating them beans.

Bucket of water, shot sinks, powder floats. Dump water with powder on flower bed, dry shot on a clean rag. After drying, add some powered graphite to the shot.

I have an ArmaLaser green TR39GS for Ruger LCP Max if the buyer or others are interested in adding it to their setup. I like iron sights, this came on a gun purchase, less than a year old. PM me if interested.

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You need more room if the stage has doorways, windows or props to work around.