I finally decided that I needed both a Dillon 550 set up for 45 ACP and a set of .45 ACP dies for
doing 625 and similar speciality/development loading of that cartridge. Looked at getting another
set of regular dies.....then a lightbulb (slowly, slowly getting over my lifelong "cheapskate" outlook)
came on. Buy a set of Dillon dies for the 550, remove the RCBS dies which have loaded literally
several hundred thousand rounds of this cartridge in the predecessor D450 and this 550 for the
specialty/development reloading - and gain the benefits of easy cleaning that the wonderful
Dillon dies bring to the party. So, I did it.
Installed them day before yesterday, and loaded 30 rounds to test (Brad triggered this commentary)
and see if the new die setup is going to work in my tightest chambered DW 1911s. If they run there,
they will run in anything I have. Ran fine yesterday, so now I can sit down and load up 500 or so rounds -
knowing they will work.
Been where Brad is, and didn't want to do it again.
And the Dillon dies are far less likely to shift on you, something that conventional dies can do
pretty easily. Been there, done that.
Bill