Progressives ( mainly the lower cost ones ) have more moving parts and slack that means generally looser tolerances and less control which in reloading usually equals inconsistent loads . Not to mention powder measers can be finicky.

Now if you do the deal where you find a load that has a wide node .. meaning you don't get much velocity or precision loss between say 45.6-45.8 grains of power or 1.750-1.755 in length the. You can definitely get perfect ammo from a progressive and a auto power drop just because all that's within that loser tolerance.

But if you have a really finicky load where you can't be off my much at all then yeah a cheaper progressive won't do wall for you.

But that being said a lot of these guys using dillions and stuff for precision ammo are also shooting them in $5-10k guns that a 1" group at 100yd would constitute a barrel change and building ammo with components that just pain work so they have alot more room for errors since there rigs aren't as picky..kinda

His prison album!

Some of those who were caught and pleaded guilty were given probation as a punishment; as little as a year. They should have been deported back to Somalia.

Morning all, 49 with light rain

and the kings 15th, lol

I don't see .999 anywhere, is it on the obverse side?

Found this nest while we were out on the lake fishing in a six ft tall stump 30 ft from the bank. No overhead cover. Full four ft of stump open. Wood ducks here are being out competed for the better nesting cavities by black bellied whistling ducks. And the whistling ducks all leave before season so you cant kill them. We see 100 to 1 whisling ducks to tree ducks now. Wood ducks used to be thick.

The call on the right is a trumpet call, not a striker. The stick in the middle is the striker. JLH frogwood striker. It makes that aluminum pot call sing

You reckon that game warden and the photographer was comin by for more than the cookin?

I am an old man and have too many traps to use in 1 season, BUT, there was a time I didn't and was always playing "trap mechanic" during the summer off season. I bought used traps with softened springs and replace the ones that I thought were needed, mostly all BG types. Now we have guys "softening # 2 CS springs" to weaken them for muskrat and mink and 4 coiling other predator type CS traps. Because we have a wide variety of furbearers here and not really great numbers or access to large #'s of any one species I have a variety of all types and sizes of BG's. I may not use many 220 size for 5-10 years due to the fur price, work schedule, family responsibility, user group conflicts etc.. As example after moving back to NE from MN in '84 I stored all my 220s (which I used almost exclusively there for water/creek bank traps) due to pheasant dogs being everywhere on the countryside here. Didn't need the hassle even though the dogs weren't on the right side of the fence. Resurrected them in the late 90's - early 2000's as the Pheasant boys got less and less. Some of those 220's were safety locked for 10 yrs. and showed no noticeable metal fatigue. So now when I prep for a coming fur season all larger BG's (120's -330's) are stored unset, but anticipated users are prepped by setting the safety and stored about 1-2 weeks before planned use. In the fields/water when pulled they are clipped with the safety as soon as I pull them for any ride/time in the truck and they stay like that for up to 4 months. At the end of the season (sometime in May) all BG's get unclipped and stored. Only exceptions for me are a few 330's and 280's I use on beaver damage calls as some are in the water 250-300 days/yr. Don't use any Belisles but believe those are about as good as it gets for a BG now-a-days as design and spring strength have proven their worth to others. My experience.................................................. the mike

Tend to agree with 160User especially without any visible hook, trouser leg stretchers