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- From: scot@hpfcla.fc.hp.com (Scot Heath)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Shotshell reloader advice?
- Message-ID: <C00533.BsH@fc.hp.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:01:46 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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- In article <1992Dec27.034051.27426@bbxrbk> you wrote:
- : My wife was kind enough to give me a rather nice shotgun for Christmas
- : (a Beretta Onyx 686 - nice wife, eh?) and I'm now in the market for a
- : shotshell reloader. I currently reload on a Dillon 550B and Square
- : Deal, and am leaning towards a progressive (or semi-auto) reloader.
- :
- : Looking around in the catalogs I can see MEC, Lee and Hornady. The
- : MEC Grabber and Hornady 366 look about equiv, but the Lee line doesn't
- : seem to have a progressive. I can't find a reference to the
- : Ponsness-Warren, but I recall it as being a fine loader - any
- : references and prices out there? Any shotshell loaders I've missed? (I
- : haven't called Dillon yet - but didn't think that they were on the verge
- : of release of theirs).
- :
- : I'll be using mostly Federal AA hulls, likely 700X and will be
- : producing 2 3/4" target loads.
- :
-
- Russ,
-
- First, nice .sig.
-
- Second, there is no such thing as a Federal AA hull. There are Federal's
- and there are AA's (Winchester). The Federal is a straight walled case and
- the AA is a tapered wall case. You typically can't mix wads designed for
- the two different cases but Windjammers seem soft enough to work with
- either.
-
- I'm sending you a copy of a recent post of mine regarding this question.
- Since I posted, I bought and set up an automatic APEX-91 loader from
- Hornady. So far, I am fairly impressed. I'd definitely recommend it over
- any of the MEC's and over the 366 to a non-366 owner. I really does offer
- some advantages over the 366. I'm going to order a set of dies and
- relagate my 366 to 28 ga. duty.
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- Good Luck,
-
- Scot
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