Whidden Click Ring Dillon 550 Full Length Resize

Concentricity refers to how straight the bullet is on top of the loaded round.

A bullet that is straight will enter the rifling in the barrel that way which will result is superior accuracy.

What About 1000 Yard Shooting Expand Will this system really load ammo good enough for 1000 yard shooting Absolutely.

The ammo that I will be taking to the World Palma Team Championships and World Long Range Individual Championships will be loaded on this machine.

John Whidden Heres Why It Works Expand All contact surfaces are vitally important to the function of a reloading press as they are for any tool, be it a rifle or a wrench.

The mounting flange around the toolhead that engages the frame of the press has to be machined to ensure that it keeps the toolhead itself in the correct position in the press.

By machining all of these critical surfaces at one time from a block of aluminum leaving no surface untouched we can manufacture to incredibly tight tolerances.

Consequently, factory toolheads are made as a large batch of castings with little specific attention paid to surface alignment and finishing.

This braces the plate when force is applied to a casing on the opposite side.

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I know there are numerous threads out there about the different ways to load on the 550 and multiple people say they do it, but I just dont want to make any silly mistakes.

My goal is to basically use this press as a single stage unit, I dont understand the point of spending the money to buy a single stage when I have this great dillon machine basically collecting dust.

I intend to purchase the whidden floating tool head along with the uniquetek tool head clamp system.

Whidden Click Ring Dillon 550 Full Length Resize

I have read so many threads that advocate neck sizing only, and just as many that suggest full length resize.

If there is any part of this discussion that relates specifically to the 550b or anything I need to know I would appreciate you pointing it out to me Not trying to waste anybodys time just cant afford to waste money right now.

I have reloaded pistol and.223 with this press before progressively but as I said my goal in using the dillon is just to save buying a new single stage NOT to try and speed up the process by loading multiple cartridges at once.

I do what German Salazar has advocated and size in two steps.

He said that the only problem hes ran into is that if you dont use each station the the shells can size differntly because of uneven pressure across the shell plate.

I dont know if the Floating Tool Head Compensates for that or not.

I also know that he loads most of his rifle ammo on a single stage.

Id say try it. If nothing else youll be set up for progressive.308 for 200 to 300 yards.

My ammo is easily capable of less than 12 MOA, and Ive got the Fclass classification and X count to prove it.

Clean the primer pockets and run them through the Giraud trimmer.

I do not have any special tool heads either and I likely cannot shoot well enough to tell the difference.

The only stage I dont use for the Dillon is the powder throwing stage.

I follow the same routine (although I use the Dillon Powder measure system).

I run BL-C2 powder, and it flows extremely well and consistent.

I measure every charge anyways, but put them together if they are within -.1 grains as my rifle shoots these charges extremely close (to 600 yards).

For further out, I measure to the gnats ass or Hognuts (lol).

Never measured it (nor do I have the equipment to do so), but rifle performance is never hampered by this method.

At the time, I was trying for max output, so I was running a trimmer on the press.