I think this wound work on a Hornady LNL.
It all depends if your measure can go into different positions. Then powder check, seat, crimp in that order. Set up a second die head with your measure in position one. Set up a first die head for sizing and priming, and maybe expanding depending on your powder measure funnel.ģ.
It probably can if it is totally case activated.Ģ. I would see if your powder measure can go in any position.
If you want to break up your process into two passes in two presses.ġ. With the experience you guys have had, what would you advise? Trust the press to load powder correctly, or use the LockOut die, and crimp in my second press. In all these years that has never happened. As for an "empty" round, I'm loading in an air conditioned closet, so there shouldn't be enough moisture for the powder to "clump" and clog. There is no way I know of to get a "double-charge" on the Pro2000 because after powder is loaded, the round is automatically moved to the next station. Or, I can re-install the LockOut Die, seat the bullet in the next station, and crimp all the rounds in my single-station Big Max press.I can either avoid checking the powder level completely, or remove the case with powder and look into it.What I need is a dental mirror with a light. The case is to long and too small, and there is no way to get a light that shines down to the bottom, and no way to get my eyeball where it needs to be. My "problem" is that there is no way for me to look down into the 38 Special case to see the powder. That's the best I can measure it with my calipers. As a temporary measure, I installed my 38 taper crimp die in that last station, and used it to remove the expansion, bringing the brass diameter at the end down to 0.3755" did (+/1 0.0005).I ordered a Redding Profile Crimp Die last night, which will arrive in a day or so. So, I removed the LockOut die, moved the seater die to that now empty station, and was left with one empty station. It's from years ago, but there was no empty station on my die plate for a crimp die. Apparently I used to use a re-sizer die, an expander die, then the powder load, then my Lockout Die, then a seater die. Yesterday I switched over to 38, disassembling all the dies and cleaning, and re-setting everything. But during all this time, I stopped reloading 38 Special for my Model 52 and revolvers. I've used it like this for the past year, and my finished rounds look like they came out of a factory box. So, instead of the LockOut Die, I set up a mirror so I can look down into the shell casing and verify that it has the right amount of powder, not too much or too little.
I grudgingly gave up on the RCBS "LockOut Die", as all of you convinced me that seating and crimping needed to be done in separate stations. Little by little, so many things were improved from feedback here, from Terry at Magnus Bullets, and from Dave Salyer. The biggest "negative" is that the Pro2000 is "only" a 5-station press.įor two or three years now, I've only been using the press for 45acp. I see tubes of primers, and my brain sees a "pipe bomb". Primers go in plastic strips, not tubes, which is important to me. I enjoyed it back then, and still enjoy it. I used to use an RCBS Big Max single station press - still have it, still like it, but I decided to move to a Progressive press, and bought the RCBS Pro2000 a few years ago.
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