Dillon 750 tips and tricks for precision reloading

[Music] someone had asked you know what do you do to your 750 that allows you to load precision rounds and i will tell you that uh for me personally i don't do a whole lot there are some things i tweak and i'll show you the reality is the 750 and for that matter the 550 and 650 load really good ammo but if you are looking for really good precision ammo you will have to tweak some things so let me kind of start at the bottom and keep in mind i'm running an auto drive and you know that's just going to change you know me pulling the handle but it also means i have to be a lot more careful with my machine it it is a tremendous amount of power it sounds stupid but i mean the torque on this thing is crazy you can't hurt yourself you can break fingers and you can break the machine or components so if you're running an auto drive be extra careful you do not have the ability to feel with the handle if something is about to break so just make sure you know what you're doing and you feel comfortable with it that being said let me just start with the actual shell plate now the actual shell plate there's nothing different about it other than the bottom has been honed i take it to some 400 grit wet sandpaper on a piece of granite so it's nice and flat and i'm not looking to completely take everything off the bottom but i'm looking to level it until i can put it in here and there is no wiggle or wobble and then obviously when it's installed there is just the slightest amount of tension that allows it to rotate and that is going to help give you the most consistent results you can also see if i zoom in here you can see that there are thrust bearings right there or a thrust bearing which is a set of washers with a bearing in between i will put a link in the description below because a lot of people don't know how to order these but it's pretty simple on amazon other little stupid things is these tabs you know they come standard on i think it's the 10 50 or 1100 or both they don't come standard on these presses which is really a shame but a buddy of mine you know grabbed me a pair when he bought some and i've always been thankful because you don't realize how much you're going to pull these pins in and out and it doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong necessarily but the ability to not have to just grab that brass uh retainer is is really nice so that's all i do on this stage and as far as the tool head goes i use the arm and off uh tool heads which i'll show you one that's less encumbered here and these are out of slovenia i believe and they do um it's similar to the wooden tool head in that it creates a floating you can see that these you know these move it is a floating tool head design the reason i like the arm and off and i like the wooden you know it's nice enough but here's what kind of gives me the the edge with the arm enough is that for one it's drilled and tapped for five all five stations so it really lets me dictate where i want to put my dies the wooden is only tapped for two i believe maybe three on the 650 i can't remember and uh but his uses a roll pin and that means that you have to drop your ring on top then screw your die in which means you cannot remove the die without losing your setting now the nice thing and i'll show you here like i've got a d capper that's all set up exactly where i want it at any given time i can screw it in send it all the way down and then simply put the retainer screw through that hole and it threads right in so the setting never changes because i will always send this all the way down to bottom then come back to the first rotation that lets me put a screw in i know that's where i set it because that's how all my dies are set and i know that i'm always returning to the exact same setting unfortunately you can't do that with the wooden and you know for me that's an improvement now i do know some guys with the widden who don't use the roll pins they have pulled them out and then they get a smaller like almost like a tiny nail or a small a really small allen wrench and they'll make little sections and they'll just drop it through the hole on the wooden into the wooden hole which essentially does the same thing as these screws do so there are workarounds obviously if you have the mechanical skill with the wooden you can drill the rest of the holes out so you can you can make a wooden into kind of what this is which is five stations and easily removable resettable dies but i happen to get these and i like them i'm also a sucker for the blue and red color the blue tells me it's my brass prep the red tells me it's my loading uh tool head so you know not that i can't figure it out by looking but it's just easy to glance at the press and say okay i know which one's in there and not worry about it so that's that's all i do with the tool heads uh not everything gets free floated obviously this is my gauge pin okay and that's an actual gauge pin not a mandrel if you look at one of my other videos you'll see that i do a whole review on this die and it's fantastic because it lets you use actual uh gauge pins instead of mandrel so it gives you a ton of flexibility and in my case i'm actually running a carbide gauge pin which is even more amazing powder i'm just running a standard dillon powder die it has the standard dillon powder funnel in it and then i am running an area 419 funnel okay and then uh you know a long time ago i made a video that showed this but it's just uh it's just a piece of two inch pvc that i put a little bit of tape on to shim it up it fits right inside that rim on the area 419 and i love being able to dump deep in here and not worry about anything bouncing out so i can dump it it's going to bounce if it does stay contained nothing is going to come out of there everything comes funneled down you can see that i have it on a slight angle because of my bullet feeder and that's okay the funnel is going to come right up to the base of this the way i have it adjusted occasionally it might just move it just you know just a hair up or down but it never falls out on me and my powder all goes in 100 of the time so for me this works really great and even though it's touching my bullet feeder the reality is that my bullet feeder does not interfere with it it just slides right there i am doing a rubber band onto two onto a paper clip and then around the die itself and that just helps ensure that the bullet feeder is pulled back down every time because it can get hung up once in a while there are parts on ebay and some other websites that you know are modified so you put a ring around here and it uses a spring that holds on to another piece that mounts up here i just find that the rubber band does the trick for me and the side benefit is that it has because it's just a paper clip i've got this hanger right here so when i'm doing brass prep i can just remove the bullet feeder and then it just hangs right up there out of the way on my case feeder and i don't have to worry about where it is so that works for me i'm just running a newlin seating die right now it's on again a free-floated die and and that's about it my my priming is pretty standard i have tweaked my press a little bit to allow for a deeper uh primer setting i would not recommend everybody do that because you have the ability to break your press or or you know blow primers if you're not careful but standard dillon priming will seat it about two or three thousandths deep i have had great accuracy with that i just happen to like my primers a little deeper and find for me that it works a little better uh as far as the case feeder it's just a standard case feeder although i do have the magnum uh upgrade in fact if you you'll see in a minute because i'll show you how i do brass prep on the 750 and it's pretty amazing but the the magnum kit for the case feeder comes with an upgraded this whole thing gets replaced and then you get an upgraded feeder tube for magnum cases and in the video you'll actually see i forgot to swap this out when i did the video and you'll see a couple of my 284s fall out of it i have since obviously gone back to the standard tube while loading my 284 so mistakes do happen you just have to watch out for them and you know there's other things you have to swap out if you're going to a magnum as well but i'm not going to get into that i just running a standard mr bullet feeder here nothing too crazy uh mr bullet feeder however does not like big bullets or long bullets so like anything from about us well i think some of even the six millimeters have some trouble and uh you can see that i have a custom piece that i've made for my mr bullet feeder and that will properly flip all the big bullets just the way we want them you cannot achieve that with any of the other mr bullet feeder parts not even with the um what is it called like an upgrade kit or something like that it's like a 90 dollar kit none of those parts will flip 107 mils or you know bigger bigger bullets so you know you might get lucky with certain bullet weights or designs but i will tell you the hybrids in particular don't flip well so i had to make my own so that's it that's what i do with my 750 and uh you know it works for me so hopefully if you get one and you want to make a few changes that helped and i hope it'll work for you

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Published: Sun Sep 06 2020