Rifle Ammo

[chrismp51]

Just wondering if any of you load rifle ammo on a progressive press? I normally load all rifle ammo on a single stage, but for the AR wanted something a little faster.

 

 

[GameHauler]

I understand your desire to wanting to speed things up for the AR but,

I had a progressive I got from my neighbor to try out and gave it back.

I like to feel each stage of loading to help eliminate any potential problem.

I do have 3 single stage presses set up and once everything is dialed in

things go pretty quick but even with one press once you have the dies set

it only takes a minute to unscrew one and screw in the next one.

My $.02

[chrismp51]

I was concerned with the case preperation, so I set the 550 up for powder and bullet seating. I am depriming, sizing on the sigle stage, it goes pretty quck that way. I was really surprised how accurate the dillon is with the powder.

[JLG]

Chrismp51, I do the same thing you do when loading rifle rounds. Resize, deprime and trim if needed on a single stage press. Than prime, drop powder and seat the bullet on my progressive. It goes pretty fast at that point, but getting there takes some time. I usually load a 1000 rounds of 223 at a time, so the prepare takes a while, Take Care, JLG.