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Old 05-15-2005, 07:59 PM
Catfish Catfish is offline
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Scooterman,
If the turrit press were free and I had to pay full price for a Dillon I would be loading on a Dillon. I`ve been loading on a 550 Dillon since the 1980`s and am convinced that it is the best press on the market for me. I have well over $ 1,000 invested in mine as I load for so many different cal`s., and I due cut expences by useing 1 cartridge conversion kit for all round of the same head size and buy powder funnels as need and swap them into different rounds also. With ball powder the Dillon powder measure will through powder charges within 1/2 of 1/10 of a gn. from now on. I`ve loaded alot of ammo that shot under 1/2 MOA and a fair amount that went under 1/4 MOA when conditions were right and the gun would do it.
I would recomand the AT 500 if you have alot more time than you need to reload, and the RL 500 if your pushed for reloading time. The first year I owned one I loaded over 1,200 rounds of rifle ammo and over 12,000 rounds of handgun ammo, and I didn`t live in my reloading room.
I might also add that if you load alot of cast bullets that the Dillon die are worth the extra money they cost as you can clean the bullet lube from them in abt. 1 min. without takeing them out of the press. If you don`t load alot of cast bullets they are probibly not worth the extra money, but the press is a real bargin if you load alot of ammo and wnat consistant loads.
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