Digital scale: GemPro 250 lifetime warranty. Accurate to 0.025gr or 1mgram. I use it to check powder drop measures and for rifle caliber. Accurate to 1 kernel of powder
Dies: all I have is LEE dies. Great for the money and as Accurate as any other dies.
Cleaning cases: After the SS wet wash, you will never look back. My Ultrasound bath is doing nothing but collecting dust.
Removing the indexing rod and it the press become a single stage.
Lee Classic turret safe priming: works great and nothing wrong with it
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- Thu Aug 17, 2017 9:27 pm
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- Topic: Which press is right for me question asked for the 100th time
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- Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:04 am
- Forum: Reloading Forum
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Re: Which press is right for me question asked for the 100th time
I dedicated my AP for 9mm Ammo, the most I shoot, some 150 rd each weekend. On LEE Classic Turret I do 45 ACP and all my bolt action rifles. For 223, I reconfig the AP to crank some.G.A. Heath wrote:If you keep things simple you can load one cartridge at a time on a progressive press. So if you want to load in bulk then a progressive press is the best way to go from the start. Otherwise if you buy a single stage or turret press to learn and then get a progressive later then you're wasting money.
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 6:37 am
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Re: Which press is right for me question asked for the 100th time
I have a fully decked Hornady AP. Getting it dialed right was the trickiest part, but once dialed. It would crank ammo at 20 9mm rds per min not including sizing/depriming and priming. Oh, and it needs more attention, like regular cleaning, lube and fixing issues with any of its "features".
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 6:31 am
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Re: Which press is right for me question asked for the 100th time
Thisrotor wrote:I went with the Lee classic turret. It's not that expensive and if you don't like it there is always Craigslist. From there on prices go up. I also use Lee dies and the Lee Autodrum for powder (very accurate). The only thing I don't like with Lee is the primer feeder and sometimes I just hand prime my shells after removing the deprimer from the deprime-resize die. Just depends how I feel. I don't rush through reloading as I am obsessive compulsive about safety. On the other hand, when ammo is on sale I buy it as the work involved is not always financially a plus with reloading. 9mm is so cheap does it pay? Perhaps. 38 special/357, 45 acp. Much more beneficial to reload. Even .380 acp saves money over commercial. For me it is more the hobby than the money. My wife wants us to be able to survive the Zombie storm without running out of ammo.
with. You can upgrade LEE turret classic (best press for the money) and you can do 5-6 rds per min, not including sizing and priming. It would do all the reloading you want for all the caliber you mentioned. I do 300WM with no problem. In a session for me (1hr) I can do 120rds to 200 rds.
Here are photos and videos of the LEE classic Turret with its update over time.
https://goo.gl/photos/rgtGdZGPo8i1SYZ18