Gaspari Bullet Feeder for the 650 & 1050

[DEJ/FL]

Just a note of interest, these are very reasonably priced and the customer service is OUTSTANDING!
http://www.gaspariusa.com/bullet_feeder.htm

Here's a video of it in action on a 650 loading 45GAP.
http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d132/djohnsonfl/?action=view&current=MOV00673.flv

Dan:coolgleamA:

[Phunahm]

Kewl Dunno why you couldn't use that in a 550 just seat and crimp in the same station unless theres something I'm over looking......:yesnod:

[sparky241]

yeah why not?sure would be nice

[BigSlick]

I like the idea of that for real.

I guess you could probably rig a collator on it for continual feeding

Beats hell out of $500 + to get one from Angus

[WalterGA]

If they'll design an electric collator with it, it might be worthwhile. With its current design, it'd be worthless to me.

[DEJ/FL]

Walter
Do you have something that keeps more than 100 primers in your reloading press?:confused:

I don't and if I have to stop and reload the primer feeder every 100 or so rounds, I can just a easily replace the bullet feed tube at the same time!:wink5:

Dan:coolgleamA:

[Phunahm]

Yeh I guess for a person that loads hundreds maybe thousands per night,but like me,A few hundred at a time and I'm not in a huge hurry I have to load the primer tubes and With the LM bullet feeder tubes it didn't take much time at all.It also looks like it has a collator of some sort for faster tube loading I like it...Im going to keep an eye on that :thumbsup: Nice catch Dan

[lcarreau]

If they'll design an electric collator with it, it might be worthwhile. With its current design, it'd be worthless to me.


With a Collator, that would be very cool, but I agree with you as it stands now.

-Lonnie

[WalterGA]

Walter
Do you have something that keeps more than 100 primers in your reloading press?:confused:

I don't and if I have to stop and reload the primer feeder every 100 or so rounds, I can just a easily replace the bullet feed tube at the same time!:wink5:

Dan:coolgleamA:

From my reloading experience with my 650, I find the above quote to be largely irrelevant to my reloading on my 650. I use a Vibra-Prime and load a tube in about ten seconds. AS IN THE LEE CRAPPY BULLET FEEDER, if I'm going to have to load 40 bullets in a tube, one-bullet-at-a-time, other than the novelty of watching a bullet feeder work and having something to post about in forums like this, what have I gained?

Now, if I can dump a few hundred bullets into a collator and go about my merry way, then a bullet feeder sounds like something sort of interesting.

[DEJ/FL]

From my reloading experience with my 650, I find the above quote to be largely irrelevant to my reloading on my 650. I use a Vibra-Prime and load a tube in about ten seconds. AS IN THE LEE CRAPPY BULLET FEEDER, if I'm going to have to load 40 bullets in a tube, one-bullet-at-a-time, other than the novelty of watching a bullet feeder work and having something to post about in forums like this, what have I gained?

I won't know you you could gain other than having to pick up ONE bullet to place in the case at the seating station OR just operate the press handle and let the feeder do the work!

Now, if I can dump a few hundred bullets into a collator and go about my merry way, then a bullet feeder sounds like something sort of interesting.

You may feel spending $600.00 is a better idea, but I perfer to spend $139.00 and put the difference into reloading componets!

Dan:coolgleamA:

[WalterGA]

You may feel spending $600.00 is a better idea, but I perfer to spend $139.00 and put the difference into reloading componets!

Dan:coolgleamA:

No, I don't want to spend $600, either, but, once again, your post isn't REALLY germane to this discusion, as to whether the one-bullet-at-a-time-in-the-tube bullet feeder is worth ANYTHING. (It's not, to me!)

And, of course, how one chooses to load primers into primer tubes also isn't germane to this discussion.

[Coloradoglocker]

While I too am enamored with the idea of a cheap bullet feeder for my 650, I'm not willing to spend the money for a collator model and the tubes just don't do it for me.

[DEJ/FL]

For those who don't mind spending less than 5 minutes filling a tube with 50+ bullets using the loading tray that is avalible and whos left hand gets tried of the repetition of picking up ONE bullet at a time, I was passing along some information on a product that works very well and there customer service is outstanding. Now that's being germane to the discussion!!!!

Dan:coolgleamA:

[WalterGA]

For those who don't mind spending less than 5 minutes filling a tube with 50+ bullets using the loading tray that is avalible and whos left hand gets tried of the repetition of picking up ONE bullet at a time, I was passing along some information on a product that works very well and there customer service is outstanding. Now that's being germane to the discussion!!!!

Dan:coolgleamA:

NOW we're getting somewhere! We are in total agreement, now! Maybe Gaspari will come up with a collator that'll work. I really don't want to spend five minutes loading a tube. (and then changing the tube, every fifty bullets!)

[BigSlick]

M&A makes seriously nice bullet collators. They are the OEM for Magma

I suppose you could pick up one collator, mount it up and fill feed tubes, but that would eventually be a PITA.

I'm not too sure I would go with a bullet feeder without a collator, just moving the work around.

I don't get too tired of placing bullets on a 650. If I did I would just take a break an go lift some weights so I wasn't such a girly man.

I like the design, I like the price, I'm just not too sure about loading bullet tubes by hand. In practice it prolly wouldn't be too bad, but erry time I used it I would be jonesin for a collator