almost all my cases are loaded. Weather is poor and I have not been shooting. I have a bunch of .22 Long Rifle cases to load and decided I am going to load a .22 caliber lead round ball in some and see what I can do to develop a quiet indoor load.

I have cases loaded with 38 gr. and 45 gr. bullets but like I said, haven't been shooting. When it clears up I will be out on the Range as I have 4 or 5 different calibers to test.

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I have a pre-B SD for 45 acp as well. I doubled up the primer bar return spring for function and reliability. Never had one break. I seem to go through a lot of the plastic primer tube tips. I load 45 acp, 45 Colt, 41 Magnum on the SD. I agree it is a little involved to change calibers, I deal with it by loading in batches. When I get down to a couple hundred loaded rounds I will process all the empties. Few months ago was 41's Will take me a while to go through 1600 rounds with a FA 97 and Taurus Ti 41. I'm only about half way through my loaded 45 acp's, but am getting pretty close to needing 45 Colt. I have a lot more 45 acp brass than Colt and shoot acp more than Colt and 41, the rotations is usually one batch acp, one 41, three Colt. I have two old Lee 1000's, one for 32 H&R/327, one for 44 spc/mg. One came to me free as parts in a box the other I bought from Jerry Miculek in the 80's, he probably won it off of a prize table. loaded 50k acp's on it, before the SD, when I was shooting IPSC.

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I have both a 550b and a SDB and oddly enough, I ve not changed calibers in either. Both were bought used and came with some extras. The 550b came with two tool heads and powder measures Ad few caliber conversion kits in calibers I do shoot. The SDB came with three or fou caliber conversions so far, I’ve only loaded 9mm on the 550 and 45 acp on the SDB. I don’t like the thought of changing primer feeds over, so that has kept me from experimenting too much. I have a bunch of prepped 223 brass and a lot of bullets and powder. I should swap the 550 over to load a few ammo cans of blasting ammo up, but I honestly don’t shoot my AR’s that much anymore. I should do the same with my 300 blk brass and get my sbr out more than I do too. I’ve been shooting more .45’s lately than anything! Mostly 45 colt and S&W loads but a fair number of acp’s as well

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I like the ability of the 550 to use other brands of dies and while it doesn’t shorten the stroke, bending the handle like the Inline Fabrication handle puts it in a much better position for my shoulder.