Comments on: USAMU Advice for Progressive Press Users

By: jimmy james

jimmy james — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 09:56:36 +0000

Probably good advice but I started on a Square Deal B Dillon progressive. That press is long gone and I have a 550, 650 and a Rockchucker. I’ve loaded (or not loaded as the case may be) more squibs on the 550 than all my other presses combined. Manual indexing has it’s advantages and disadvantages.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 07:35:19 +0000

One of the most useful things you can have when using a progressive press, (I run a tweaked version of the Lee 100 for 9mm ) is a GOOD lamp on a flexible arm.

I bought a LED cluster one from my local “light shop”, for about twenty dollars (Oz). It is sold as a “reading” lamp, designed to be clamped to a bed-head, thus a spring-loaded clamp that neatly attaches it to the shelving behind my press. The “goose-neck’ construction means it is easy to aim where I want it. I have just bought two more to attach to the tool shelf above my lathe. The lamp, being LED is low voltage, and has a “remote” power supply / plug-pack on about six feet of light cable AND an “inline” switch on the cable, near the lamp base.

I keep it aimed at the bullet-seating station, so that, as each case comes around, I can see quite clearly whether it contains powder, before I run it up into the bullet seating die.

I also carry a 12″ length of 8mm hard brass rod and a Copper mallet in my pistol range bag, just in case; Murphy was an optimist.

By: nick brungard

nick brungard — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 13:40:18 +0000

I started out on a hornady lock n load progressive but i only used it as a single stage till i got comfortable with what everything was doing.