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| < 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Pacific 360 Dies Fit on Hornady 366 |
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Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:27 am
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| Just bought some NOS dies (16 ga.) for a Pacific 360. They look identical to what's on a Pacific/Hornady 366. Does anyone know if these are interchangeable ? |
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Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:55 am
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Wed Sep 16, 2015 12:19 pm
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Wed Sep 16, 2015 12:28 pm
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OK, the shell plates are different on the 360 and 366, one having 6 and one having 8 hull locations.
Mike
p.s. but if you can not find a 16 366 shell plate, maybe you can mill out a 366 20 gauge plate or MAYBE Hornady has one in back stock.
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Last edited by skeettx on Wed Sep 16, 2015 12:32 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Wed Sep 16, 2015 12:30 pm
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Wed Sep 16, 2015 12:34 pm
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Yep
Should have seen that........ |
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Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:28 am
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Based on my memory (always risky at my age)  , I believe the only diff between the 360 and the 366 model is the 366 auto-indexes and the 360 doesn't. Everything else is the same. All you need are the 16 ga dies and the shell plate to convert the machine.
Considering the reality of our available 16 ga hulls now, I'm betting the 360 is probably better for reloading our favorite gauge. The auto-index feature on my two 366 DL models can be problematic when the pooh hits the propellers.  Fixing screw ups like buggered hulls, improperly seated wads, and bad crimps requires disengaging the auto index feature (relatively easy), then advancing or reversing the shell plate to remove the hulls from all the following stations, removing the screwed up load and fixing or rejecting it, then replacing the loads in progress (all of which is a PITA and time consuming). It would be far easier to avoid the screw up or fixing it before the shell plate is auto-advanced. Even so, fixing these problems on a 366 ain't nearly as quick and easy as it is on my MEC Grabbers.
You'll also probably need some more powder bushings. On that note, you might want to do what I did. I had two of my unused Hornady powder bushings machined out to accept the smaller MEC bushings. Once done, it's a simple drop in process that lets me very easily fill in the gaps to get very precise powder charges with my 28 and .410 366 DL reloaders. |
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Tue Oct 27, 2015 8:22 am
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| Will I have to work up a different shot colum recipe going from the Lee Loadall to a progressive press? Most everything I have done on the LLA has required a OSC to make the crimp right with the exception of a few loads. |
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