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Mbaker78
06-07-2014, 02:24 PM
A friend of mine just acquired a shiny new desert eagle on 50AE and he wants me to see about loading for him...

I have a lee pro1000 (I'm happy with it, don't hate) and I was wondering if anyone knows if it'll be able to load this round. I know that the overall case length is shorter than 223, which I already load on this press, I'm just not sure if there's room for dies or not and was wondering if anyone had any personal experience with this setup...

Happyguy
06-07-2014, 11:15 PM
Dillon makes a specific shell plate for the 550 and when I look at the Lee site they don't list a shell plate or caliber conversion for the 50 AE. David

Mbaker78
06-07-2014, 11:20 PM
It's a lee #11, I already cross checked it. From reading on other forums it looks like it'll work, but I'll have to manually feed cases I think, not really the end of the world...

Happyguy
06-08-2014, 05:56 PM
Then it will work. David

Mbaker78
06-08-2014, 06:53 PM
Excellent, luckily I just scored a couple pounds of H110 for 300blk, and still have a bit of imr4227 left over from my last batch.