Reloading Setup

[Froogal]

I guess I'll just stick with my LEE single stage. It does everything I need it to do. If I got done any quicker, I wouldn't have anything to do.

[Major 2]

Guess I'm going to upset someone and I'll apologize now but I recently read this comment on one of the forums that I visit that stated that 'Lee was the Harbor Freight of reloading' or words to that effect. I've never owned one of their presses but have had other Lee products and believe it to be a fairly accurate statement.
Another quick story. When my father inlaw passed an uncle gave my wife this suggestion. When you are looking for a casket at the funeral home ask to see the most expensive one and then the least expensive one. Then go up one from the least and buy that one. That's what my wife did. Everyone was fine with her choice except the funeral home.

"Lee was the Harbor Freight of reloading' or words to that effect "

I suppose there are points to that statement ...LEE did have a cast Aluminum based entry model for about $80

But the LEE Classic Turret is cast iron base with steel parts and solid.

[R.M. Conversion]

For that volume of reloading, I'd go Dillon 550.  I think you don't need an auto-indexing press with 5 stations for this kind of work.

[Major 2]

I also have a Lyman T-mag II , set up for 30/40 Krag

[Baltimore Ed]

Have 2 dillon 550s [given to me] and 2 T- magIIs. One Dillon is 45acp/AR only, the other is currently for 300Hamr , the 2 Lymans vary, one has been reloading my 45 Schofield-.455 and .45special from last weeks match. The second has .38 dies on it. I have multiple Dillon measures and quick connect gizmos on them so I can easily change dies and change measures and start cranking out loads. I prime on these press. Another thing is that I don't switch primer arms, I leave the large primer one on all the time. They work fine with small primers.

[Cliff Fendley]

I'm all blue press when it comes to loading volume.

[6MT]

The Lee turret works just fine. I manually index mine since the silly plastic bits gave up the ghost after only a couple of rounds. (A weak spot about this press.)




And I prime on this press....



And charging might be a bit of overkill to some.



Yes, my processes take time. And the precision I obtain probably is too much for the levers and revolvers in my stable. But I really enjoy reloading. As much as shooting.