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[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

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[Shooting Bull]

For clarification: did you say that press will only do shorter action pistol calibers? 38 Special is too long?

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

The factory BULLET FEEDER will only do short action pistol calibers.  Without the factory bullet feeder (which is an extra cost option) the press will load pretty much the same rounds as a Dillon 650/750/1050.  As noted in the photos I adapted a Mr. Bullet feeder to the press and it works fine with .38s and .357s.

 

P.S.  You not being a puny old geezer could probably pick the thing up with no problem.

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

Here are a couple of photos showing the "problem."  If you are loadings 9mm, .38 Super, .40 S&W or .45 ACP (the only calibers currently available for the feeder) the full scale automation is not a "problem."  It really makes things fast.  Here is the factory set-up.  Bullets come down from the bullet collator.  Green arrow.  They go into a feeder.  Light blue arrow.  From the feeder they drop into a shuttle.  Light purple arrow.  The shuttle moves the bullet under a micrometer adjustable bullet seater.  Dark purple arrow.  All this is done in one stroke of the handle.

 

 

If you remove all the factory bullet feeder parts (or do not buy them in the first place) the press has a lot of room for longer cartridges.  In this photo the Mr. Bullet feeder is installed.  It drops the bullet.  Then it is seated and crimped like in the normal loading procedure.

 

[Griff]

Since it does feed bullets to the 45Auto, do you suppose it would also feed them to the C45S?

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

Yes.  I used it to feed bullets to .38 Short Colt.

[Shawnee Hills]

Looks like you’re using a Dillon powder measure instead of the one that came with the press.  Was the X10 measure not accurate?

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

The factory measure seems to be very accurate.  The factory measure comes in a dedicated location on the press.  Left in this location you either cannot use a powder checker (I like the RCBS lockout die as I cannot hear the ones with a buzzer) or have to use a seater/crimper combo die instead of separate seat and crimp dies.  I guess they have had enough complaints that the factory had a powder measure relocation kit on their new products page on their website.  However it was not yet for sale so I decided to use a Dillon measure as the Dillon measure also uses the Mr. Bullet feeder funnel/expander and saves one die location.  Also, I do not like leaving powder in the measure and there is no easy way to remove the factory measure to empty it.  All my Dillion measures have quick releases so that was another plus.  After I substituted the Mr. Bullet Feeder in place of the factory feeder the relocation kit became available.   I got one and at some point may reinstall it.