Echoing Hoser - not *needed* for carbide; but I easily tack on +50% production by lubing on my LNL AP or SDB. I kind of hate one shot as a lube, though, so I do the Lanolin sprays.
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Oddly enough a 223 case with the base cut off fits that spent primer hole snug, with a tap of a soft hammer, enough it will never fall out. Mine had 100K on it and the oly time that case was out of there was for 10K pm's
Absolutely.
While not a fan of 1 shot for rifle, It's a great lube for pistol brass. Spray on, size & load. There's none of that light film you get with dillon case lube, or the home made stuff.
Question about the 1050 and 1100. Are the powder drops that they use any better than those for the 550? I have persistent issues getting a consistent measure of powder. I typically see +- .1 gn variation sometimes .2 on some powders. The marketing materials for the 1100 say it'll produce match grade ammo but wonder if that's true if it doesn't throw a consistent amount of powder like the 550.
As far as I know they're all the same ignoring a powder bar return design change about a decade or more ago.
I think the Dillon Powder Measure Tips thread <-(Click this) may be of some help.
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Looks like the variation of +- 0.1 that I'm getting is "good" from reading that thread.
When I'm loading pistol rounds I don't really care so much about the 0.1. With 223 I care more especially when I see higher standard deviation numbers on the chronograph.
What kind of effect on target have you seen, chasing SD?
Particularly with OCW-type load development, I've noticed that SD doesn't really have much correlation with group size (I did find better correlation with ES, which makes sense, given that most people don't measure group size as mean radius). As an overall trend, higher charges/pressures produce lower SD, but my velocity loads don't correlate with my accuracy loads.
It's so pronounced in my experience that I might even define an accurate load/node as one which is insensitive to SD. Which implies to me that the negative impact of poor node selection is far more detrimental than the impact of varying velocities.
FWIW: I find my Hornady measures are more accurate with Varget & friends than Dillon.