Excited about Christmas gift

[PapaG]

I usually find it hard to suggest what my wife could get me for Christmas. This year my inspiration came during a particularly frustrating loading session on my Grabber that I bought used in 1980. I shoot a lot of trap and some skeet.
I found a MEC 9000 on a forum and we looked at it, settled on a price well below those on eBay and other sites. Looks new. Feels new. And.....as we were loading it up the seller says, "You might as well have this stuff, too." Hands us a tub with 1500 primers (boxed, wish I could say that for RC), a hand full of powder bushings, wads, a Hornady electronic scale, and along with it a big bag of AA empties.
The old Grabber will be cleaned up and offered to the club members as a "learning tool". I estimate a quarter million shell have gone around its plate.

 

[FROGO207]

Everyone wins. The way it should be. MEC equipment is always good stuff as well.

 

[kudu]

You can send an old press to MEC and they will refurbish it, at least they used to. I have 4 Grabbers, one, the ..410 was a refurbished that I bought off a buddy of mine 25 years ago. I maybe have 25,000 shells thru that one.

 

[rfwobbly]

Congrats on the find !

You'll want to get a cafeteria tray to place under the 9000 before bolting it to the bench. You'll quickly find that the 9000 drops powder and shot even when a hull is not present. As the song says, "You better not pout, you better not cry..."
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[SARuger]

I got a used MEC 600 as well. In really good condition!

 

[kingmt]

Congrats

 

[Armored farmer]

Congrats papaG
You can get started wearing out another Mec.

I have them in 12, 20, 28, and 410.

We need to meet up for a round of trap sometime.

 

[PapaG]

Kb, that would be fun.
9000 is mounted, tuned and cranking out shells equal or better than Grabber did near forty years back. Had to put in new o ring wipers as the tightwad dust slides out more than I like. Now, get ready for next year's trap, skeet and combo leagues. Figure by April I will have twenty flats of 1 oz 8s, five of 1 1/8 9s, and three or four of 7 1/2s for handicap.
Also in the works is making a high rib for the 1964 Superposed. Key stock, aluminum bar stock and double sided tape....but that ain't reloading stuff.