New Dillon 650 on the way.....

.....so I put my 3 Square Deals on the Bay. Now to spend some quality time watching You Tube getting some info on setting this new machine up.
Guess I've gone full circle so to speak. Still have the Rock Chucker I started on 50 years ago. Then had a Lyman Spar-T. From there to a Lee of some sort. Then, I went to a L-N-L AP. Drank the Blue Kool-Aid, sold the L-N-L and got a 550. Hated the manual indexing. Sold it and went back to a L-N-L. A friend wanted it more than I did and proved it with cash. He ended up with it. Went to a Forster Co-Ax. Love it for precision rifle and will never be without it. Then bought a Square Deal for 45LC, then another for pistols with small primers, then another for the 45ACP. Was about to buy a 4th for another caliber and I said, hold it, still can't load for my AR15 and AR10 at the rate I need to. So, yesterday I listed the Square Deals and today I ordered the XL650....whew!!!! I'm done now. NO! Will NOT buy a bullet feeder and auto drive...ain't gonna do it...No-Sir!

bds, I did. Plus some more stuff.

Thanks for the tip on the videos. Yep, bought a case feeder and all of the plates, powder sensor, strong mount, parts kit, primer tubes, tools, roller handle, tool heads, powder dies and caliber conversions. I think I bought everything except the powder low level warning sensor. I figure I can look at the measure and tell if I'm low on powder and save the almost $50.

My first L-N-L was a fine machine. It gave me no problems. It was just that the Dillon had such a vocal following, I just had to try it. Should have bought the 650, but went with a 550 because of Enos's recommendation. Hated it. Never did get the primer system bugs out and didn't like the manual indexing. The next L-N-L I got was just awful. Don't think I ever got to load 100 straight rounds without some type of glitch. Spent a lot of time on the phone with CS and in the post office sending and receiving parts. Their CS was fine, just couldn't get that thing to run. And while I'm on the subject of CS, yes, Dillon's is excellent, but I'd rather not ever have to call one. If I'm on a first name basis with them, something's way wrong. On the other hand, its great knowing that if I break something, even if it's my fault, another one is going to be in the mail with no hassle. Got the email a few minutes ago that mine will be delivered Saturday...excited.

Truthfully, I only break out the Rock Chucker for pulling bullets when/if I need to. For all of my single stage work, I load on a Forster Co-Ax. The Co-Ax is simply awesome, but doesn't pull bullets.

Well it got here. Wow! What a massive machine compared to the small presses I'm used to. ,Sure has a large foot print on my bench. First impression is that it is a really well built press. I had it delivered in a .223 configuration but decided yesterday that I needed to change to 45LC. I dove in with some pretty good instructions from Dillon and a couple of great videos from you tube. Had a bunch of other commitments catch up with me that I had to honor and didn't get back to it to make the conversion until tonight. The process wasn't near as difficult or time consuming as I feared. I have everything set up except adjusting the powder measure. All the dies are in place and adjusted and I'm really impressed with how smooth and effortless it seems to operate. I'll know more tomorrow night when I load some rounds.

Having a large, economy sized case of Tinnitus, I'm having a devil of a time hearing the audible, high pitched warning tone on the powder checker die. Does anyone know of a way to perhaps wire in a 12 volt LED light that would come on when the switch on the sensor is activated? That would be better for me than the little high pitched tone it has.

OK. Took 5 minutes get the measure throwing the weight charge I wanted to use. Loaded up the case feeder with 100 45 Colt cases, the bullet tray with 100 cast bullets, added 100 primers and started cranking. I had loaded all 100 before I really got used to the machine! This is nothing like I have ever loaded on. I can't believe how quickly I ran out of everything. I'm not sure I can buy components fast enough. Seriously, it was really smooth, the case feeder is amazingly quiet, everything "just worked", Happy camper here.