Anybody made the jump to a progressive press for reloading precision centerfire rifle ammo?

I’ve heard the progressives have gotten awful good???

Found a smoking deal on a Dillon. All my reloading as of now is single stage for precision centerfire rifle. But that could change with a good progressive press.

If i could make it faster id just shot it faster.... lol

I started using my 550 when the linkage on my old Lee single stage broke. Its all been accurate but I had not been shooting for extreme accuracy since then but do get sub moa groups and thats good enough im not chasing .25 groups these days and not sure if I could shoot them anymore anyway. I still weigh and tricked the charges for more accurate ammo. Its still much faster than a single stage.

I had planed on geting another single stage but don't see the point at this time

well sort of

technically that is my sons press

he has a Dillon 750 xl and loads 223 and 308 there was a mod that involved a thrust bearing to take up some space and make the carrousel go around smoother and flatter.

I load on a turret my 308 and 30-06 on my bench they both work fine

now I just buy him primers and projectiles and let him turn me out 9mm on the dillon

Know most of them f-class sub MOA @ 1000yd types are running. Dillon 750's now days , most with auto drives. Just push a button and go . Don't think you could really get anything too bad from something with the quality of a Dillion

Closet I got is my lil lee turret I'm using more and more

Interesting. I got a 550 for most of my stuff that I punch out in bulk, and a Rock Chucker for my CF bolt actions which I want to be more accurate.
I’ll have to try some 308 loads through the 550.

To go from trickler to auto drop is therapy involved?

There is a lot of used tools for sale these days.

Wolfdog what at you using for a auto drop?

Charge master light is what I use for everything, never really got over a issue I had with a traditional powder measure and some.bad loads so everything gets measured on the charge master

Why would it be any different in quality of load?

The only reason I have ever used a single stage was for loading for a specific gun reusing the same cases.

Because of it throwing the powder instead of weighing it. Now some people use a progressive press but don't have the powder throw attached and pour a measured powder charge down the powder thru expander die every rotation, in that case it should be the same, but you are also slowing down the process and defeating half the purpose of a progressive press.

I've used a progressive for some pistol rounds, but never for rifle. But I used to through charges through a powder measure and then weigh them on a beam scale, before I bought an electric powder measure like Wolfdog pictures. From my experience of years of that, it probably depends on the powder, some powders will through to tenth or twentieth of a grain every time, others not so much.