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Offline OnTheFly

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I found a Dillon XL650 without dies; however, it is in the wrong caliber.  Actually I found two, but they are both for rifle cartridges.  How much would I spend to convert it to 9mm?  Ball park is good enough.

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2013, 05:37:09 AM »
I found a Dillon XL650 without dies; however, it is in the wrong caliber.


Missed it by that much :laugh:

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2013, 09:27:44 AM »


Missed it by that much :laugh:

Story of my life on and off the range.

Maybe SFG would have an answer to this...when he is done trolling the forum for videos of naked models shooting guns.   ;D

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2013, 11:24:47 AM »
I suppose after my last trick with the "Video of naked models shooting guns", no one will read my posts anymore.

If I bought one of these presses, I know I would need a shellplate for $27 or so.  What else?

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2013, 09:10:51 PM »
Go to the Dillon precision web http://www.dillonprecision.com site and look for the caliber conversion kits http://www.dillonprecision.com/content/p/9/pid/23804/catid/2/XL_650_Caliber_Conversion_Kit ~$78 plus your dies.

I am guessing that you have everything else that is required.
If not, a quick change kit will give you the tool head and powder measure.

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2013, 09:16:23 PM »
suppose after my last trick with the "Video of naked models shooting guns", no one will read my posts anymore.
Do we ever ?
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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2013, 11:19:36 PM »
Do we ever ?


Phantom,

"That hurt man.  It hurt right HERE!" he said as he pointed at his heart.  ;D

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2013, 07:54:35 AM »
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Maybe SFG would have an answer to this...when he is done trolling the forum for videos of naked models shooting guns.

My Relentless Forum Pursuit of Naked Models with Strayer-Voight Infinitis, Kimber Commanders, STI Eagles and other such Fine Defensive Devices is simply to purge this venue of Temptation for Young Men [Under 50], who would otherwise Lust for these Unreachables and then go into debt to purchase them in this Overblown, Pricey Market.

'Tis Noble Work, .....wot I'm doing.   Lonely, but Noble.

Now if the Fly would just set up the Opportunity, like he said.................

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Actually I found two
   Maybe you should tell us all where to find that Other One.................



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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2013, 09:28:19 AM »
Phantom,

"That hurt man.  It hurt right HERE!" he said as he pointed at his heart. 

Fly

Posting PORN And YOU Have a Heart ! ? ?????      :laugh:
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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2013, 10:48:46 AM »
Posting PORN And YOU Have a Heart ! ? ?????      :laugh:


Wait a minute I NEVER posted porn, but YOU guys opened the thread hoping to see it. Who's the guilty one here?  ;D

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2013, 10:49:36 AM »
 Maybe you should tell us all where to find that Other One.................

Moot point now.  Both presses are gone.  Oy vey! When will the madness cease?

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2013, 10:58:38 AM »
OTF, thank you for the tip they will look good in my cave....lol.

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2013, 11:05:49 AM »
OTF, thank you for the tip they will look good in my cave....lol.

Ahhhh, but I did not say WHERE I found them. 

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2013, 11:43:20 AM »
Just About Anybody.........

Can fill up old plastic ice cream buckets with 9mm reloads simply by monotonously, repetitively, repeatedly yanking the operating handle on a Dillon 650 Progressive.

Even a Trained Ape could do it.   [Underlying Thesis:   If I can do it, then it surely follows that a Trained Ape.........]

But...to sit down at an RCBS Big Green Supreme Single Stage Machine and proceed to meticulously craft micron-level uniform, jewel-like Little Brass-and-Copper Beauties..........Ah!!   Now we are Speaking of the Higher Arts.

[And I am NOT jealous of your Dillon 650.   Not one little bit.   Not even a micron's worth.............]

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2013, 12:45:20 PM »
SFG,

I hope to take one of your reloading classes.  I was out of town for your pistol courses.  I want to make sure I understand the minutia of reloading so I don't make a major mistake.  I want safe, reliable ammunition as my final product.  HOWEVER, I am not doing it as a hobby in and of itself.  I am doing it to cut round cost in half, but I want the process to be minimally time consuming.

Being CDO myself, I could see a large part of my time getting consumed by my obsessive ways and defeating my end goal...shoot more for less.

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2013, 12:51:09 PM »
My source DOES have a Dillon 1050 for 9mm in stock, but that is a little more than I planned to spend.

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2013, 03:01:50 PM »
Fly..........

Maybe another reloading class of some kind around early April.   [Spring Break.......Ahhhhh........is intervening shortly.]

We'll post it here, of course.

Lookin' forward to working w/you and Other Forum Guys.

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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2013, 03:34:28 PM »
I have to agree on the RCBS Rock Crusher.  It is definitely slower, definitely more labor intensive, and definitely much more rewarding.

I cranked out my first round, and immediately ran upstairs and shoved it in the wifes face like the scene from Cast Away.  She was not nearly as pleased as I was.


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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2013, 05:11:34 PM »
I have to agree on the RCBS Rock Crusher.  It is definitely slower, definitely more labor intensive, and definitely much more rewarding.

I cranked out my first round, and immediately ran upstairs and shoved it in the wifes face like the scene from Cast Away.  She was not nearly as pleased as I was.



I am sure I will feel the same satisfaction once I get my system up and running.  No doubt the thrill of producing a safe round of good quality will be thrilling to me too.  However, the REAL satisfaction will be a year after I have started producing ammo and there are 6,000-10,000 rounds downrange at half the price I would have paid buying commercial ammo.

Fly
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Re: Found a Dillon XL650, but in wrong caliber. How much to convert?
« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2013, 09:21:48 PM »
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I cranked out my first round, and immediately ran upstairs and shoved it in the wife's face like the scene from Cast Away.  She was not nearly as pleased as I was.

Odd..... was you wearing Hoppies #9