Red Dot

[fiver]

am i the only one that can make a Dillon drop powder where i want it to?
unique, 700-X, 4895, 322 they all drop as good or better than from a regular powder dump.

anyway an old guy once told me as a reloader you always need something.
you either have too many of one thing or too few of another.
i figured i wasn't gonna get too worked up about it until i got down to the last 8lbs. or sleeve of something.

 

[richhodg66]

I have enough 700x and Unique to likely hanfle the shooting I'm gonna do for life. I'll prpbably get that Red Dot. Been a few years since I've used any.

 

[richhodg66]

There was also a ĺot of shotgun primers and some shot. Kind of more inclined towards those, really. I can see me getting more into Trap, sure is fun. Can get as many Federal hulls as I can carry anytime I go to the range. Probably ought to just start loading trap loads and have a few thousand on hand.

 

[richhodg66]

Not Red Dot exactly, but when I absorbed my hoarder dad's stuff, I got a mostly full cardboard keg of Alcan 120.almost no data to be had, never very popular it seems. Someone on a forum said it burned like Red Dot. The few pistol loads I found for it backed that up and I shot up close to four pounds of it over several years in all kinds of things. Great stuff. Metered better than flake powders tendto do, accuracy was good. I'd grab more of it if I ever found some.

 

[fiver]

the new style federal top gun type hulls need a much taller wad than the old paper base hulls.
the pink win. SL wad will work, the bright green copy has a slightly larger gas seal to work with the larger diameter hulls.

 

[fiver]

you and me both on the 120.
i'd throw it under the Alcan wads i got just for the fun of it.

 

[richhodg66]

Oddly, I did not load a single shotgun shell with that Alcan 120. Sure worked well in all kinds of pistols and cast rifle loads.

Tose Federal hulls load and crimp real nice, better for me than AA hulls do.without looking it up, Winchester 209s, 19 grains of 700X, the Claybuster clone of the 2S3 Federal wad and one and an eighth ounce of #8s seems to do pretty well for me. I really think shot is gone be the limiting factor, the stuff is three bucks a pound if you buy it retail. Considering geting a shot maker.

 

[fiver]

don't do it....... LOL.
frustrating, then you get it down pat and your lead stash disappears.

i use a ton of the federal hulls.
they changed them again though, we kind of nicknamed the new ones the 'lifesaver' hulls because when you look down in there it looks like you could lay a lifesaver down in the ring at the bottom.
they go concave with a 1-1/8oz wad now, and load more like a Rio or cheddite hull than the old gold medal.

 

[richhodg66]

They'loaded qell for me, and the bin at the range is always full of once fired free for the taking.

 

[300BLK]

am i the only one that can make a Dillon drop powder where i want it to?
unique, 700-X, 4895, 322 they all drop as good or better than from a regular powder dump.

I ran at least (3) 12# kegs of 700x through a stainless Colt Gov't 45 by way of my Dillon 550 and never had an issue.

 

[L Ross]

One of the last things I need is more lead, powder, or primers, but I'd still grab that 700-X. $150/8 lbs.? Like a duck on a June bug!