Thread: Progressive Press Choice

Originally Posted by johnd

The best tip I can give you, if you buy a progressive press is to spend some extra bucks and buy a heap of primer tubes. If money was less of an issue than time I would opt for a 1050.
If you are going to load 1000 cases at a time .....(very doable), just as you are getting into the swing of things, your 100 primers run out or the buzzer goes off to be more precise. Every thing stops while you piss about and "pick up" another 100 to fill the tube.
This will actually take you longer than to punch out another 100 rounds ( seriously )

Buy 10 primer tubes, prefill them all ready to go and you should easily have your 1000 rounds loaded in less than a couple of hours

As above, if money is not a problem and you "REALLY" want the fast as it can get the Dillon 1050 is the top you "can go" in a small "manufacturing plant", a 650 fully kitted (brass and projectiles feeder) will also fit your bill keeping in mind the "Primer tube" matter, however as we speaking "as" if you don't have money problem then buy an Dillon electric primer tube feeder, a primer pocket swagger and setup your single stage press for trimming your brass when the time comes up…
Man, so many options, the hornady will work as good as the dillon but the extra accessories dillon offer will make a difference… even thou the extra accessories will work fine combined with your Hornady press if the is your choice...

Hard decisions...