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Tailflash
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Retired since this last February, so am getting back into shooting/reloading.
I have two Dillon RL550 Progressive Presses that are separately set up for Small & Large Primers, because it's a PIA to swap & adjust primer feeds. I also have two Dillon Rapid Trimmers that are set up & precisely measured for trimming .223 & .308, and each are on RCBS Partner Presses that I can just swap out the entire press & trimmer on my reloading bench in minutes (without having to dink around with swapping & measuring trimmer dies). The last item is my old reliable Lyman Spar-T (6 die) Turret Press that I've had since I was a teenager. The Spar-T Press is my workhorse for all resizing/depriming operations and for reloading those oddball cartridges on occasion. I don't use the Dillon RL550 presses for depriming/resizing as all the brass that goes into those presses has first been deprimed/resized/trimmed & highly polished before they ever touch these presses.
Fun Fact: There is no such thing as 5.56x45mm or 7.62x51mm (or 5.56 NATO or 7.62 NATO) Reloading Dies; just .223 Rem & .308 Win.
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Tailflash
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Speaking of Shotgun Shells, who remembers a time when there were smaller No.57 & No.157 Primers that you had to check for when reloading; otherwise, they'd need the larger No.97 or (current) No.209 primers? I still have a bunch of old empty shotshells that take the smaller primers, but when I eventually run out of those primers, I remember us kids (age of 13 or 14 back then) would just force/ram the larger 209 primers into the smaller primer pockets; problem solved! Back then, Remington held onto the smaller 57/157 primers, whereas Winchester & Federal had moved on to the 209 primers.
I still have a bunch of old CCI primers that I intend to use up:
I still have a bunch of old CCI primers that I intend to use up:
