progressive press advice for 308

[Great-Kazoo]

550 OR 650 If you want real volume, the 650 since you're getting processed brass. If you want speed and something other then a single stage the 550 is the go to press.

NO you can't use a case feeder on the 550. WITHOUT a lot of modification. That would negate the cost of the 5 over 650.
My 1050 is a brass processing set up. The cost of tool heads becomes cost prohibitive ..
Yes you can use hornady lock rings on your dies to get them close enough for plinking rounds. IMO any time a dies (with lock rings) is removed then reinstalled. You need to check final adjustments.

[tmckay2]

Is it at least agreed Dillon is the way to go? I should clarify too. The brass won't be processed I just meant I am getting a lot of it and processing it all at once so I will have a few thousand pieces of brass processed. Thus, since I will get several uses out of it, I won't have to process primer pockets over and over again.

[cstone]

How many rounds do you plan on shooting each month?

Dillon 550, Super Swager set up for large primer, and a Giraud trimmer set up for .308. Having a solid single stage press just set up for sizing also helps. You could substitute the Dillon 1500 trimmer on a separate toolhead for the Giraud and it would move the sizing and depriming onto the 550.

Just resign yourself to always having brass in some stage of being prepped. If you have 1000 pieces of brass and you size and deprime 100 pieces every evening, you will have it done and the lube tumbled off in two weeks without too much effort. Then you can swage it all in a week and trim it in another week. In one month you will have 1000 pieces of brass ready to go on your 550. Unless you plan on shooting 1000 rounds every month, you will stay ahead of your use, after you put the first month of prep in.

Enjoy.

[Slapps74]

I can process and load a 1000 rounds of 5.56 in about 5 hours start to finish minus the wet tumble and dry, with my Dillon 650. I have the swager that goes in the press and a RT 1500 trimmer.

[Caithford]

I can process and load a 1000 rounds of 5.56 in about 5 hours start to finish minus the wet tumble and dry, with my Dillon 650. I have the swager that goes in the press and a RT 1500 trimmer.

I have the Super Swage 600, a 550 and the RT 1500 trimmer, and I can process and load 1000 rounds of 223/556 in about 5.5 hours.

[Slapps74]

I have the Super Swage 600, a 550 and the RT 1500 trimmer, and I can process and load 1000 rounds of 223/556 in about 5.5 hours.

Your just much faster than me!


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[Caithford]

Your just much faster than me!


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Hah! That wasn't quite my point, I just wanted to post what I've timed myself at with my equipment, so the OP has a comparison. Though I did necro the thread a little