Casper223
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As everyone is aware, I'm new to reloading handgun cartridges. Reloaded approx 1000 Rnds 148gr HBWC, and another 500 Rnds 138 Gr Wadcutters from Bayou Bullets. Loaded both with Bullseye powder, but noticed there's a Recipe in my book using Red Dot, which is significant, because I reload 12 Gauge rounds in my Spolar with Red Dot and keep approx 24lbs on hand. More shelf space is always a plus for me. I'm not sure how the Dillon would meter the Red Dot, as it does an awesome job with the bullseye, just thinking outlaid, and maybe one of you more experienced loaders can add feedback on the Red Dot and the Dillon powder system if you have time. I usually use Red Dot in both my Mec's and Spolar Gold which drops powder identically to the Dillon.
Tomorrow I'd like to set up a new tool head to load a wildcat round I use, a .270 Max. I've got 1500 pieces of unprimed brass, Annealed, resized, trimmed and deburred, waiting to be loaded, with another 500 pieces, of new .357 Maximum brass sitting new in the boxes, waiting to be annealed and necked down. I'll be using 21.5 Gr of Accurate 2015 powder, and I'm very curious how the Dillon Powder system will meter this powder as well. Prior to my Dillon Press, I was loading these on a single stage RockChucker press, and weighing each load out by hand on an Ohaus 10-10 scale. I've been told time and again the Dillon would handle this task with ease, and save me a lot of time and trouble, so I'm curious to find out for myself.
Since January our Range in the Honey Island Management area has been closed nearly every weekend due to flooding issues, My two grown daughters, and their husbands and I love to shoot clays on the weekends. It's a family time gathering, and we really enjoy it, as we break up into pairs, with one person operating the thrower control. Between the 5 of us shooting, we usually go through 1,250 rounds in a day, and approx 5,000 a month. I have a month supply in reserve right now, with another 10K empty, and waiting to be loaded on my Spolar. So with this Carona stuff going around, at least for the next 3 weeks of confined to home, I should be able to easily catch up. My Spolar Gold is a fully progressive loader, and if properly fed components will fill a 5 Gallon bucket every 15-20 minutes, leaving the issue of reboxing the loaded rounds as being the biggest time consumer.
Thinking with all this reloading going on, and as sparse as components are getting, I should be able to keep occupied until the end of this isolation period, both running down components and loading.
Tomorrow I'd like to set up a new tool head to load a wildcat round I use, a .270 Max. I've got 1500 pieces of unprimed brass, Annealed, resized, trimmed and deburred, waiting to be loaded, with another 500 pieces, of new .357 Maximum brass sitting new in the boxes, waiting to be annealed and necked down. I'll be using 21.5 Gr of Accurate 2015 powder, and I'm very curious how the Dillon Powder system will meter this powder as well. Prior to my Dillon Press, I was loading these on a single stage RockChucker press, and weighing each load out by hand on an Ohaus 10-10 scale. I've been told time and again the Dillon would handle this task with ease, and save me a lot of time and trouble, so I'm curious to find out for myself.
Since January our Range in the Honey Island Management area has been closed nearly every weekend due to flooding issues, My two grown daughters, and their husbands and I love to shoot clays on the weekends. It's a family time gathering, and we really enjoy it, as we break up into pairs, with one person operating the thrower control. Between the 5 of us shooting, we usually go through 1,250 rounds in a day, and approx 5,000 a month. I have a month supply in reserve right now, with another 10K empty, and waiting to be loaded on my Spolar. So with this Carona stuff going around, at least for the next 3 weeks of confined to home, I should be able to easily catch up. My Spolar Gold is a fully progressive loader, and if properly fed components will fill a 5 Gallon bucket every 15-20 minutes, leaving the issue of reboxing the loaded rounds as being the biggest time consumer.
Thinking with all this reloading going on, and as sparse as components are getting, I should be able to keep occupied until the end of this isolation period, both running down components and loading.
