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    Might be loading 50AE...

    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...

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    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

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    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...

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    Then it will work. David

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    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.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check