Brent Clark
Square Deal
Friday, March 27, 2020, 22:09

Bought a used Dillon Square Deal from Gary a week or so ago. Got it up and running. It needed some parts and cleaning but works like a champ.
It looks like whoever had it was a little confused, had it setup with .38 dies in 9mm toolhead, 9mm shellplate and the failsafe rod rigged to dump powder no matter if there was a case in that spot. The .38 sizing die was chewed up but Dillon sent a replacement. Few other small parts which about half of were no charge and a good cleaning/lube and it’s back in business.
I’ve loaded 200 each of 9mm, .38 Special, and .44 Special.
I like the press. Will probably use it for 9mm and pickup a setup for .45 acp. I have a 550B, not auto indexing, but affords a little more room to work and better die options. The auto indexing took a little getting used to. Easy to lose track of where things are at when getting everything dialed in.