This is how I load as well. All stations working with consistent pulls/pushes is the best way to get consistent ammo. To mitigate the last 3 rounds in a session (powder, powder check, seat), I’ll still re-size in station 1, but pull it before priming. That helps keep COL within tolerance.
I don’t want to start a debate on powder measures, but as I have a Dillon on order, I’d like to know what you don’t like about their measures.
Not wishing to debate either. Been there, done that. To those who do not agree with me, we just have to agree to disagree.
That said...I went through hell with Dillion over a couple month period when I bought my Dillion gear about 10 years ago. The measure that came with the package, their standard size, simply would not drop anything close to consistent with anything but ball powder. That would be fine, but at that time I was loading 300 win mag and 300 RUM. They needed stick powders..which the Dillion measure flatly would not do. I called them, they recommended the Belted Magnum measure. It was supposed to allivate all the problems with large stick powders that the standard had.
It didnt even come close to working. It would drop charges up to 1.5 grains low, and worse, sometimes over a grain higher. No rythm or reason to it. I called Dillion again. They recommended all kinds of fixes, polishing the metal in the hopper, funnel, slide..etc, and then coat with car wax....
Did all that....NADA function.
Next, shim the tool head. Did that, and while it didnt fix the measure issues, it had other advantages. So I kept that one.
The last thing they told me to do...tape a fish filter pump to the hopper and rig a pedal to give it a vibration blast every so often. At that point, I had lost it, and we went round and round in a very heated conversation over the phone.
I never called them again. That's what I call lousy engineering if one must resort to that kind of crap to make a product work.
Ya...I dont use their measures on anything, ever. They are less than useful, and in the case of the magnum measure...downright dangerous.
Everything else about Dillion I love, but they need to pull their head out of their neitheregions, bite the bullet, admit their measures are pure crap, and come out with a new design.
They kinds sorta have admitted their measures are crap. They recommend a Redding Measure on their website for stick powders. That at least is a start.
but owning both I think both camps can say they worked out of the box or have to tinker out of the box. These things are man made tools I think wulf is the closest to fair review and feature parity of both.
