In this video, you'll see how easy it is to work up powder charges (work up or down to the charge weight you want for a particular load) on the Hornady Lock-N-Load AP Progressive reloading press. The unique case retention spring design makes it easy to insert and remove cases from any station on the press.
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What type of digital scale are you using… if you can name of the scale. Thank you
That’s just a cheap jewler’s scale that I bought on ebay. I think it cost about $20 or so.
Have you noticed any variations in COAL using the Hornady LNL press when starting and completing a loading session. I noticed a 0.010 low to high varaition. I also noticed that at the end of a session teh COAL is longer with out any other cases on the shell plate except the very last case of the run. Any suggstions to minimize teh variatio? What are teh spects for variation on COAL, I have seen +/- 0.005 is acceptable.
Tim- Yes, I have noticed more of a variation when “running up” and “running down” the stations. If you have everything dialed in properly and are using good dies, then I would suspect you should be able to maintain +/- .005″ variation. Depending on the bullet profile, you’ll need to use a comparator to find out true variation (especially with rifle bullets). What kind of bullets are you seating, and what dies are you using? Are you seating and crimping in one operation? What seating plug are you using?
Answers to those questions will help me to help you
Gavin,
Your videos and great explanations convinced me to buy a LNL and case feeder. I use a Lee Classic Turret and wanted to move to a progressive. I can say that the Hornady wasn’t as plug and play as I would have liked, but once working it does run well. I had a few missing parts but a call to Hornady solved that.
I know you are not a help line, but I ordered the Powder Funnels expander die (no instructions from them) and while it looks great, it does not work well for me. I’ve only tried it on 38 Special cases and it seems way too tall as you have to just thread the powder measure a few turns. It crunched a few cases for me so I just went back to a separate expander die. I couldn’t imagine it would ever work with a rifle case. I really liked the powder-through capability of the Lee setup and I was hoping to be able to use a powder cop, bullet seater and then crimp die.
So, my question is do you have any thoughts around how the Powder Funnel worked for you or any videos to that effect? People say the Hornady powder-through expanders do not expand enough so I do not think that is an option.
Thanks,