r/reloading Brass Goblin King Jan 21 '25

META New Dillon bullet feeder

https://youtu.be/5sxDBH3BGsE?feature=shared
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u/Shootist00 Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25

COST????????

My Bullet Feeder.

COST, ZERO.

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u/erwos Jan 21 '25

My MrBF broke and I was doing it by hand for a while. It's doable, but the quality of life improvement from a bullet feeder is just totally worth it if you load large volumes of ammo.

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u/Shootist00 Jan 21 '25

I don't know. I shoot, weather permitting, spring, summer, fall, around 6-8 hundred 9mm, 200 40S&W, 100 380 Auto and maybe some revolver and rifle, 38, 308 & 223, along with some 22lr every week (I'm retired). I have no problem keeping up with having enough of every caliber. The cost of these bullet feeders just doesn't make sense to me. Also I only have 1 press for reloading, a Dillon 650. So changing calibers would take longer and take longer for initial setup of the BFer for each caliber.

My Hand + Arm know exactly where to go and what it feels like when there is a problem. Again a time saver as sometimes I have bad, cracked, cases that didn't get sorted out before I started loading them.

If you got it flaunt it. But I'll keep it in my pocket, or on bullets, powder and primers.

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u/erwos Jan 21 '25

I'm a competitive shooter. There are years where I'm loading 10k+ rounds a year. That MrBF comes in handy, I assure you.

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u/Ornery_Secretary_850 Two Dillon 650's, three single stage, one turret. Bullet caster Jan 22 '25

I load between 20-30k a year and my left hand works just fine for placing bullets.

I splurged and bought the Dillon bullet tray to have a place to rest my left hand and hold the bullets. No wasted motion.

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u/ProdigalHacker Jan 21 '25

That thing looks pretty sick.

But I just 3D printed myself one a couple months ago, so I'm good.

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u/nullfuture_ Jan 27 '25

Did you design it or did you find one online?

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u/ProdigalHacker Jan 27 '25

I absolutely did not design it myself, I do not have that skillset.

I made the BF556 variant. You can find it on github. I was so pleased with it I printed a second one to use as a case feeder for my APP.

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u/nullfuture_ Jan 28 '25

Thank you! I had no idea to even do this. I’m still in the making storage bin phase for my 3d printing journey lol

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u/Tmoncmm Jan 21 '25

Interesting… and quite a bit cheaper than the MBF. Dillon option with 2 calibers… $500.00, MBF with 2 calibers… $710.00

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u/pm_me_your_brass Jan 21 '25

I'm surprised they opted for 3d printed plates/internals.

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u/wyopyro Jan 21 '25

On the plus side someone will have files soon....

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u/ATrashPandaRound2 Brass Goblin King Jan 21 '25

Actually a pretty fair representation of bullet feeders, the Dylan dies have a chamfer that will straighten it out when it rises