BP cartridge reloading presses

[Mad Mucus]

G'day...

For .45Colt I use a Lyman T-mag II turret press with Lee dies, a Lee Auto Prime hand tool, a brass adjustable volume powder measure with funnel, a 3' droptube with funnel, a turned Tassie oak dowel rod for compression, a home-made 1.25" plywood 50-hole loading block... and complete each full step before advancing to the next.

Still experimenting,

Mucus

[Oregon Bill]

L.I.B.! Just looked at the Lee Web site and ran the little clip of the Classic Turret in action and lo and behold, it auto-indexes. I had no idea. I'll be ordering one pronto. Thanks for all the replies pards.

[Tommy tornado]

My suggestion is to order through Midway.

[Marshal Tac]

I started out 25 years ago learning to load on an RCBS Rockchucker... I lost count how many thousands of rounds I loaded on that old machine.

I stopped loading when I went into the Army, and didn't pick it back up until about 3 years ago, when I had my own house and some space was made on the back porch. I stepped back into it by picking up a used Dillon SDB set up from a pard at work. I loaded on it for a couple of years with great success and few complaints, until the Mrs. decided to pick me out a new press for Christmas last year. She ended up getting me a Dillon 650 with case feeder, all the bells and whistles, a new bench, and spare tool head set up for my "other guns' (press was purchased in .45 Colt, and spare tool head was in .45 ACP).

I could not be happier with this set up. It is extremely FAST and works wonderfully. I load 777 and smokeless on it, and have picked up a couple of additional caliber conversions and tool head set ups for it since then. I will likely never buy another press.