Hung out with a friend today helping him set up his Dillion 650 press. It's different from my Hornady. I like the case feeder, their primer mech is superior, the indexing is perfect. The powder measure sucks, I don't like the separate seat and crimp operation. It's a wash. Both units have nice features, both will run fast enough to pay for themselves. It's been said before, choose red or blue and pick 'em.
We were building 45 ACP rounds today. I think we should seat them a little longer and add some powder. We had some pretty extreme velocity fluctuations and the seal wasn't as tight as it could be. I did get to shoot a Glock 21 today. I got to be the guinea pig, the load was mild and I had no worries. It was a Gen 2 model that feels like a 2x4. It's hard to make a double stack .45 that I can fit my hand around, Glock fails, even with the new short frame models.
With my 9mm I had an awesome day. The lower recoil meant that I hardly noticed it after running through fifty full house .45 loads. Today was a real breakthrough. I could tell that my sights are a little off. POI is to the right. At 25 yards, I had to hold about 4 inches left to hit the center of the target and I made a nice little cluster right in the middle of the target. When I had a miss, I called it even before my sights came back on target. I'm super happy with how I shot today and super excited to be adding .45 ACP to my reloading abilities.
