Who is using a Dillon progressive for 223?

[Skinny Shooter]

I've been using a rockchucker for years but one of these days I'm getting a progressive.
My normal routine is to lube inside the case neck and the outside of the brass, then resize the brass.
Afterwards, the brass gets dumped in the tumbler to clean off the lube residue.

How do you do that with a progressive?
I've watched vids of guys doing the entire reloading operation at once.
Isn't there an issue with excess lube on the brass?

[Rapier]

Owned a 550B for many years. You clean your brass first with the progressive.

I use RCBS lube and a lube pad. I roll the case on the pad with light lube first then pick the case up and stick it mouth down and rotate it while pressing down. That simple act leaves a little lube just inside the neck's mouth. I use a good bit of 2230 powder, very fine grained, and have no issues with clogging from excessive lube. I reload for three AR guns and a Mini-14. I usually wipe down the AR's ammo with a dry rag after it is loaded to make sure there is nothing on the outside of the neck/shoulder area. The Mini is a "if it fits, it shoots" gun, way more forgiving of a grain of powder or two.

I usually wipe the necks as I put the loaded ammo in the MTM boxes.
Ed

[Skinny Shooter]

Ed, I've tried wiping the brass after resizing and there always seem to be a film of lube left over.
I would have thought that would make it more difficult for the brass to grip the chamber when a round is fired.

[Rapier]

The little lube that is left is not a real problem for civilian style shooting even when I carry a gun in my tractor mount, dusty and dirty, it still functions OK. But were it a life or death deal I would probably wipe it all down with acetone or alcohol after loading so there was no sticky residue for the dust to latch onto.
Ed

[Catfish]

Skinny, if you get a Dillon you will soon find yourself building a room on your house just to store your ammo in. I`ve been loading on a 550 Dillon since the 1980`s. Their powder measure is very accurate with ball powders and as good as any with stick powder. ( I`ve never found one that worked well) The quality of the ammo you load will be as good as with your Rock Chucker, I`ve proved that to a loa of non belivers. I usually don`t worry about the lube, but I have been know to wipe it off and even tumble it.

[PJgunner]

I've been giving some thought toadding the set up to load .223's on my Dillon. The lubing and sizing of the brass has been where I held off doing it. I think the best was may just be doing the resizing on my Rockchucker, tumbling th brass to remove the lube and do the finish work on the Dillon. It's a couple of extra steps but I think I'd rather do it that way than have to either wip off all those shells at the end or have to tumble loaded ammo. I don't think that's such a good idea. Might be interesting to call Dillon and ask what they think.
Paul B.

[Skinny Shooter]

Paul, that's exactly what I was thinking but...
So many people do the entire sequence on the dillon machines that if something was going to happen I'm sure we would have heard about it.
I'm still used to tumbling after resizing though so not sure what I'll end up doing.