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Thinking about gettin a pro 1000, in 45acp and one in 9mm. My biggest question is does the bullet feeder attachment that you can buy for it work ok with tumble lubed cast bullets?? Thanks for the input guys.
For my blasting ammo, and since I am now resizing my cast boolits, I usually don't use the FCD unless I am making ammo for my revolver, or I'm cooking up some match grade stuff. Granted, I've only done that once, and man, that was some sweet shooting ammo. The reason why I don't use it all the time is because rimless cases like 9mm, .40S&W, and .45ACP headspace at the case mouth, so putting a hard crimp on them can cause the case itself to go deeper into the chamber than it's supposed to and cause extraction issues. Now, the ammo I just made up for Andronicus I went ahead and ran that through the FCD on my turret press. On my .50AE loads, I don't crimp them at all. I tried crimping them once and man those bullets didn't shoot well for crap.Primal, do you use a factory crimp die in a seperate operation??? The pro 1000 is a thre hole press right???