Thank you. I'll order one when it comes back in stock. For giggles, I went downstairs, adjusted the M Die to the .225 section, and ran 15 pieces of brass through. Then I seated flat base VMax and 55 FMJ-BT bullets and checked for tension by trying to set the bullets back. I'd press against the bench hard enough to dimple the wood 5 times and measure set back, of which there was none. Looks like I have some experimenting to do.
I’m a big fan of the Sinclair die. You’ll love it.
First time through the press I run a universal decapping die followed by Sinclair. I anneal and trim after this pass.
Next time I do a FL w decapping rod and expanded removed followed by the Sinclair. I get really straight ammo.
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I have used M&S processing for the past 5 years. Very reasonable in price and fast. All brass is processed to SAMI specs, I've never has a bad case out of over 5000. easiest way to do it if your dealing with 1000+ cases
Tumble
Size
Tumble
Trim
Into 650
Deprime
Charge
Seat
Crimp
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I run my match grade 308 stuff across my 650. EVERYTHING goes across it. Screw the single state crap. I do weigh every charge though on the 308 stuff. Everything else I did extensive ladder and ocw tests with it and it can be up or down as much as 0.2 grains and still be MOA or sub, that’s 556 stuff.
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Just an update on my brass prep setup now that I have it in operation...
Tumble range brass.
Lube brass in cookie sheet with alcohol+lanolin spray.
I got two toolheads for the XL650. First looks like this:
1. decap with FL size die raised to only expand mouth and decap
2.
3. Dillon rapid trimmer and FL resize
4.
5. Lyman M expander die.
Tumble again.
If primer pockets haven't been swaged, do that on Dillon swager.
Second XL650 toolhead as usual setup:
1. universal decap to clear flash hole
2. install primer and powder charge
3. powder check
4. seat
5. crimp
This works awesome. So glad I discovered the homemade lube spray. Brass prep is so fast.
Thanks for everyone's input!
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