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Dillon 100% buy once cry once! The 650 is a real joy. I had lee equipment for many years and learned a lot and one thing was it was not fun keeping it running. My Dillon runs like a fine tuned machine. I have been reloading 40 years. All my big guns are loaded on a single stage RCBS with Redding...

Brad A lewis lead remover and a few drops of Kroil is the answer to your lead removal problems

No mention or questions of anything just that it would be replaced with a new no-lock replacement (as mine was a no-lock) customer service A PLUS!!!

Replaced S&W Replaced the 442 with no problem a great company and made in USA

The few rounds (35) of the hundred fired is what it took to do this it was clean when we started and this was found during cleaning as it gets every time it is shot

Ernie a little confusion here the 600 is total for the gun since new. It would get 75 or so each time out and cleaned each time this time a hundred give or take but only 35 were found to have caused the problem. As I have listened to some of the people here and thought about it the hard...

No black at all on the 686 or the 60 but they have lighter springs (still reliable) but the 442 as a carry gun for my wife has stock factory springs. No it has original factory firing pin.

The powder is 2 years old the brass is good it was the primers that caused the problem but only in this gun. what about all the ammo from the wars people still shoot I would never use power that was very old or brass that was bad and if the primers work the thought was it should be fine. I...

There were no indications all loads were very consistent and accurate my 110lb wife shot most of them as I was standing right there as I said shot a lot of them in a 686 and there are no sign of damage at all and never noticed cases be blackened by blowback

158gr bullet and going back over my records I have shot a lot of these in my 686 and my 60 with no blowback or problems the 442 seem to be hitting deeper on the primer

loaded on my 650 I have been loading for 35 years never seen this befour

breach face of my wife's 442

This brass is not range pickup I have reloaded it a few times I am sure but never had this happen usually throw away when they split

pictures of brass and primers used

Hand loads using 4.5 gr Unique and some Alcan primers leftover from years past. They were shoot yesterday 35 rounds of the 150 or so fired is what I found. Just went back through the brass and found blow by no piercing of primers found. The 35 rounds is all it took to ruin this nice gun found...