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I was tossing around a lee and started looking at a hornady classic lock n load kit. Yeah is it more dough. But there throwing in the kit there 9th edition manual plus a rebate for 500 bullets. 320 reg price minus the manual for 40 and 500 bullets for 130 brings me down to a lee classic price. What do ya think?

How are hornady die sets?

If you purchase a set of dies you also can get 100 bullets for shipping n handling fee.....
 
I bought a Lee Loadmaster and a Hornady single stage press at boxing day for the same reasons you mention above...check to see if the rebate for the bullets is still available..I thought it ended on January 1 st. you have to send in original receipt and UPC from the box as well as 20 dollars us for the bullets. Its not a bad deal if you can still get in on it...the only thing I didnt like was the fact that they could substitute other bullets if the ones you picked werent in stock...both manufacturers make good products as far as Im concerned...each company has their fanboys as well
 
It really depends on what you want to reload. If you want to load for full size bullets or magnums, get the bigger and heavier press so its less work. For medium size rifle or smaller a medium press will work fine.


I have several presses and often resize with the larger one and stuff bullets with the smaller one.


Hornady dies work well, they also will send free replacement pins if you break one.
 
No doubt Hornady is better than Lee.
I have product from both and both have their place.
But my single stages are a Forster Co-Ax and a Rockchucker.
Not that I don't like the two your looking at but my decisions were at a different time and I'd probably choose them again.
 
Well I picked up an rcbs jr2 press appears to be used very little a few weeks ago then a rock chucker ended up on my step with a powder thrower 5-10 scale and just about everything else I'd need except for a tumbler dies and consumables..... Getting close. Now to build a compact bench to mount everything.
 
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Well I picked up an rcbs jr2 press appears to be used very little a few weeks ago then a rock chucker ended up on my step with a powder thrower 5-10 scale and just about everything else I'd need except for a tumbler dies and consumables..... Getting close. Now to build a compact bench to mount everything.
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Keep the top well braced and solid right at the lip so that pulling the lever doesn't result in flexing the frame and bench top back and forth. Nothing worse than feeling like you're pulling on a rubber band. It's also lost energy from you that'll result in your arm tiring that much sooner if there's much flexing at all. Plus a truly solid and rigid frame means that you feel more of what is happening through the lever which may save you from a mashed casing now and then.

Figure on lots of shelving for bottles of powder and boxes of ammo and plastic storage trays to act as draws for dies, small tools and press related accessories. So before you make any shelves go and buy some cheap plastic storage boxes that are roughly shoe box sized and make the shelves deep enough to match the length of the boxes.

Or go crazy and get a couple of used kitchen drawer units to use as pedestals for the work top for storing a bunch of the stuff.

Hint, if you use the plastic "shoe box" sized containers as drawers I found that most need a 14 to 16 inch wide shelf. But Ikea has some boxes that sit neatly on 12 inch wide shelves in a few different sizes. And best of all they are quite cheap and decently thick and tough. If you have an Ikea near you the model name is "Samla".
 
Op, I was in the same shoes as you. I had my mind set on the lee loader, but then I saw the Hornady classic kit. The Hornady is a great kit! The press is really good quality, the powder drop is very accurate, hand priming is great, one-shot lube works awesome, the scale is accurate and I love the bushings. You could never have too many bushings, they allow you to quickly lock your dies in place without measuring each time. As for Hornady dies, they are great too. I've loaded 9mm, .243 win and .300 win mag with mine so far with zero issues. A single stage is fine for loading pistol cals. It really doesn't take long.

Hornady started get loaded 2016, so if I were you I would get the press so you get the 500 free bullets (shipping takes a while, be patient), then get some of there dies and you get 100 free bullets on each set.
 
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