Press Counter

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I have a Dillon 650, and was wondering about putting a counter on it to keep track of reloading as well as use on press. Does anyone use one? I saw several on EBay for around 35.00 and wasn't sure about getting one. Strange started out with a $566 press, that has now gotten close to $1000.
 
I didn't put one one my 650. I load until I'm out of cases. Doesn't matter to me how many I load.
 
I have 3 of them and never use them anymore. Dillon doesn’t make/sell them anymore. Save your money.
 
There was just a thread about press counters a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=775973&highlight=Counter

The object is not to make a permanent record of every round you ever reloaded.

The object for me is to dump a bunch of brass in a bowl and run them through the press until I have enough to match the number of bullets I have to reload with!

Then re-set it for the next time I want a brass count in a batch.

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I have a counter on my automated press, counts up total of rounds and counts down from 100 primers. Also have one on my automated rollsizer.

That said I don't have them on my manual presses. I found out a long time ago there are 100 primers in every box and it is easy enough to count them when your done.
 
Does anyone know what the number of primers that are left in tube and disc, after the primer low alarm goes off, roughly? On the Dillon 650. I know it is quite a few.
 
Does anyone know what the number of primers that are left in tube and disc, after the primer low alarm goes off, roughly? On the Dillon 650. I know it is quite a few.
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What Jmorris said. I will also add that if you are loading bulk, add primers when it goes off so you don't have a hole or two empty on the disk, and end up charging unprimed brass. In my RL550 I run about 3 after the alarm goes off, then drop in more primers. The first time I tried this with my XL650 I had a case or two with no primer. Lessons learned.
 
E-Bay is an evil anti-firearm ownership empire that funds the people who want to take your firearm away from you.
Can't imagine why you want to count anything, but industrial punch presses use counters to count part numbers. Same thing. Try an industrial supply shop.
 
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