Guns, Bows, Shooting Sports, and Hunting Progressive Shot shell reloaders

[BIGNASTY]

Looking into stepping up production of Shot shell reloading, with the number of shooters & ammo amounts my MEC 600 Jr just ain't keeping up with the volume unless that's all we want to do in our Spare time.

Many companies making Progressive units some are hyd. operated or manual, these are a few that our group of shooters have been looking at. Anyone that has other ideas? Please feel free to send a link or contact info. If any have personally used any of these machines please voice your opinion. Hornady also makes a unit, but has suspended production for some reason.

http://reloaders.com/

http://www.dillonprecision.com/#/content/p/9/catid/1/pid/25239/SL_900

https://www.mecshootingsports.com/p-386-9000gn.aspx

http://www.spolargold.com/spolar.htm

http://shop.rcbs.com/Products/Presses-and-Kits/Shotshell/The-Grand.aspx




Thanks BIG

 

[BIGNASTY]

This is the way reloading should be :-laf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk2C13G7PVY




another brand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jukwFwD4cRU

another brand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWMvJhn2kw

 

[JLEONARD]

I don't see any safety devises on any of those. Did I miss them?

 

[BIGNASTY]

I don't see any safety devises on any of those. Did I miss them?

SAFETY DEVISES??? like for what? to make sure each position did what it was supposed have happen?


I met with a guy at the gun store that took me to his house to show me his set up, its the same one that we have decided to go with (Ponsness Warren, Patriot)

The only thing that kind of bothers me is the finished round ejection into a bucket below the bench in the video. All of these type progressive loaders eject the loaded round the same way. I just felt uneasy about the round dropping into the bucket, it could hit the primer on one of the other hull rims and go off. I don't know if its ever happened ? or if it even could with the amount of force from where its ejected to the bucket below, it was just a thought.

Other than that he pointed out a few of things that he looks at for before he steps on the foot switch in his case (it can be foot operated or by hand with a toggle) One is that you have to manually put the wad in place, two is that the primer has dropped into position to be seated for the next round, three is that you can see the powder actually fall from the machine to the hull, and four you can hear the shot as it falls from the loader to the hull.

He said it takes a bit of practice to get the sequencing down for all the steps to confirm that they did in fact occur, but after the learning curve it goes very smoothly. He gave me the opportunity to load a hundred rounds for him. I did like he said and made sure each position did what it was supposed to, then he loaded a hundred rounds, It went twice as fast as what I had done, he has loaded and used these types of machines for a few years so im sure that he's going to be much faster at it than I.


BIG

 

[JLEONARD]

I'm thinking more to make sure you don't accidentally load a finger.

 

[KBurgoyne]

I don't think the primers can be set off as long as you take the nails out of the bucket first. If the primer is seated correctly it will be just under the rim. If you want to feel better, take a primer and hit it with a hammer. It is surprisingly difficult to get them to go off. I don't care for the auto drive. You have to count on the machine to do everything right, and cant feel out the problems. This will largely be cured by the learning curve. One of the things I really like about the Dillon is the forward push to seat the primer. It lets you feel the primer in and you can tell the good from the bad without looking. The sl900 is set up the same way and has a side eject for the shells. Keep in mind I don't load shells so what the hell do I know. If you like what you saw go for it. Then again the fully loaded Dillon setup is a lot less expensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNebDLWxr-M

 

[BIGNASTY]

To late!! We got the Ponsness Warren. I can understand concerns about the things mentioned, I think they all will have their own good & bad points. I went shooting Sporting Clays and did some other Skeet & Trap shooting with a group of OLD FART'S used up a few hundred rounds of ammo. Not that ANY of these machines wouldn't have done it just as fast or almost as fast but it was nice to know that within an hour my Shot Shell supply was full again.