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No pics so far, it's still in the drawing board and planning stage. I don't even have any prints drawn up for it yet. My machine shop is not even yet functional.

Someone has to find a better way to size these brass. I crunch about 1 in 5 of them with the sizing die. The neck collapses. I am using redding dies on a custom Dillon 650 setup I built. Anyone have any suggestions on what's causing the brass to collapse?

Nope, I figure 200 yards it should be quite accurate enough. If not I need to rework my approach some.

After I got home I read our exchange on a desktop with more detail than my "smart" phone has. The blanks for my project are made by green mountain. The stainless 1/12 .224 blanks cost me about $150 if I recall. It's been over a year since I had a chance to look at it. I am back on the bandwagon sinc...

Ok, gotcha. I am at work now so my responses may be a bit short. I am planning on making a custom rifle from the ground up. Maybe making a form 1 suppressor for it as well. So turning a blank is really part of the plan. I suppose I could pay someone else to do the work, but why? I am a machinst by t...

I am not sure you understand, I pay about $150 for a 1.25" diameter stainless barrel blank. No chamber, no threads, no contouring at all. Just a 30" long straight piece of stainless that has been gun drilled and rifled. That was the best price I could find. I would say if you can find a good price o...

Well, given that I am doing the work myself I would have to defend those "smiths that get a heckuva markup". I see few ethical people making a killing in this business that the very govenrment that requires their own lisence seems to be trying to regulate out of existance. Barrel blanks cost about $...

1 in 12 twist.

Looks like I am back in the game! I will have a working shop by summertime for the first time in 6 years!! I have ordered a reamer and headspace gauges and I already have the barrel blank. I plan on making everything from scratch and working on this as a suppressed rifle, so we shall see how it turn...

The case feeder tray would likely be a seperate item. Right now we are working on the caliber conversion parts as Dillon sells in one kit. I feel pretty comfortable with what we have on the test machine. We just need two things, one is a list of people who want info, the other is to get the parts we...

Yeah my buddies got the program done and ready to go, I have one prototype for testing ready. It needs some minor modifications and I produced some custom locater buttons and some parts for the case feeder. More work to go, but I should have a working test bed in a couple weeks. I know how it is, so...

I am taking names of those interested in a caliber conversion kit for the Dillon 650. A freind and I have made some prototype parts and will offer them soon I hope. While we are still in an R&D mode, we would like to gauge how interested folks are in this potential product. Thanks a lot!

Usefull data, thank you. Just for my own edification, what is the grainweight of the SS195 bullet? This was the lead free hollow point version right?

Do you have an aproximate total of what you spent? Also contact info for your smith? If I could simply buy a finished gun instead of having one built that would be better of course. I still think I can come up with a magazine well adapter for this that would take FiveSeven mags.

Of course now I want to know who did your work so I can have them do it for me too! Nice.....

I plan on building a bolt action 5.7 when I get the parts and money. But I am not sure if I will build for the public.

A weapon with a buttstock that has a barrel length of less than 16" and an overall length of less than 26" qualifies as a short barreled rifle. Short shotguns are similar except their barrel lenght is 18" or less. Also once you have attached a buttstock it will always be considered a rifle thereafte...

My go-to forum for NFA questions is subguns.com . Many smart C3 people over there.

How many shots did it take to drop that pig? Thats cool.

Thanks! Thats what I thought, but I could not assume you were not using an NFA length rifle barrel.

Mister Freeze wrote:wasn't the 4.6 'caseless?'

I don't think so. While I have only handled one, it was several years ago and I don't recall anything about caseless ammo at this demo I was at.

To have relevant data you need to include barrel lengths. How long of a barrel did your AR57 have?

Sounds good! I may still go that route. If I can find enough time I will do something from scratch though as I have some pretty specific criteria.

Has anyone loaded with the Dillon 550 on the 5.7 round? How well does it work with this caliber? I am a machinist and am considering making a 650 shell plate, but wanted some feedback before I take on this little ( expensive) shop project. Would love some real use feedback.

Thanks for the offer, but given that I am a gunsmith myself, I would like to have my own set of gauges and reamer. But we might be able to work together a bit. What sort of action did you decide to use?

I am with you on this. Though I am personally planning on building my own gun from scratch. I may even go as far as making my own action. I know I will be profiling the barrel. As to those who ask why do it, my answer is twofold. One, because I can. Two it would make a neat suppressed rifle with hig...

has anyone built one of these before? I am seriously thinking of making one for myself. If it flys I might make some for my sisters family to use on varmint guns. I figured I would ask here rather than re-invent the wheel, maybe someone could help me save time and steps in manufacturing. Maybe someo...

I have an AA piston kit on my gun. I also use it with a suppressor but since my state does not allow SBR's, I needed to perm-attach my can onto my barrel. I can say a few things about this, the supressor does not like short barrels. I have an SWR wolverine. On a 10.5" barrel I got baffle strikes. I ...