Inline Seater on Progressive press?

[gzig5]

Has anyone tried an inline seater on a progressive press? I'm wondering if they will work. I have a Hornady Lock N Load and would like to try an inline seater like a Vickerman or the RCBS version but am concerned that the case won't go in far enough. I've read where it is common to need an extended shell holder and on a progressive, that is a no-go. I know that a couple of my dies just about run out of threads on the LNL to get close enough to the shell plate.

 

[riflewoman]

I used to use a Vickerman to seat 308 target loads. It needed to use a shell holder extension when seating or the stem closed off the window. This was in an RCBS junior.

 

[people]

It works fine you may need to put the lock collar on the bottom of the tool head.

 

[jonbearman]

Possibly the forster inline die as it uses a standard shell holder.

 

[searcher]

People: What type of inline seater did you use?

 

[memilanuk]

If by inline, you mean like a Redding Competition or Forster Ultra BR... yes, they work fine in a progressive (use mine in a Dillon RL550B). Wilson... not so much

 

[gzig5]

If by inline, you mean like a Redding Competition or Forster Ultra BR... yes, they work fine in a progressive (use mine in a Dillon RL550B). Wilson... not so much

I was mainly interested in the Vickerman type die where the bullet is loaded from the top through a slot in the die body. I've used the Forster in the LNL and it works but the Vickerman seems to be caliber specific, not case specific and I would only need the one seater for the five or six .224 cals I load for.
http://vickermandies.com/html/products.html

I had to resort to the Forster .223 die to seat bullets for my .222 loads because the RCBS die doesn't have a sliding seater sleeve. The flat base bullets were tipping going in and the runout was horrible. They loaded fine in the .223 Ultra seater, just had to crank it way down.

 

[amlevin]

Vickerman seems to be caliber specific, not case specific and I would only need the one seater for the five or six .224 cals I load for.
http://vickermandies.com/html/products.html

Sounds a little like the Hornady Custom grade New Dimension dies where the chamber sleeve is short, just indexing on the shoulder. Any .30 cal die should work on any case with the same shoulder angle.

That said, I prefer the Forster Ultra BR and Redding Competition Seating Die. Results are great and just putting the bullet on top of the case like all other dies means I don't have to "relearn" when changing dies.