Considering getting into reloading and need help.

[SamLalib]

Hello folks, so this is my first post on here and i am looking to get serious with the hobby and have decided that i would get into reloading my own ammunition.

I will be mostly reloading .30 carbine for my m1 carbine and 9mm for my JRC. I consider my self a volume shooter so i think i will be needed a progressive press.dget

I do not have a big budget and i really dont know enough to make a good decision in regards to what press and brand.

Could anyone point me in the right direction.

I was also looking a getting a Lee Pro 1000 Progressive Press Kit since it fit in my budget and would like to get your oppions on this product and what i would need extra aside from the dies and consumables to get started.

thank you for the help.

Happy holidays.

sam

 

[zuke]

There's also the LEE Classic Turret, and the Loadmaster

 

[Canuck223]

I do not have a big budget and i really dont know enough to make a good decision in regards to what press and brand.

Could anyone point me in the right direction.


thank you for the help.

Happy holidays.

sam

Rethink your budget.

Done right, you pay for your reloader once.
Done wrong, you pay in time and replacements and upgrades until you've cost yourself far more.

How many years will you be shooting? Done right, your tooling will repay you over and over.

You know the guy with the wife everyone talks about?
The rather homely. #####y, fishwife creature that he loves and adores, but everyone else avoids?

That guy loves his Lee Pro 1000 and will tell you in great detail about how it's under rated.

 

[mildcustom2]

Tagging along.

I am just eating into reloading too so I can feed my new Smith and Wesson 500 I just purchased.

Purchased a brand new RCBS Rock Chucker Supreme press for 140$. Meets my needs since I'm not planning on using it for volume. I'll be reloading .308win, .338 lapua and 50 BMG on it. Hopefully it will do the 50 BMG as I have been told from every bit of information I've read on it.

 

[SamLalib]

Rethink your budget.

Done right, you pay for your reloader once.
Done wrong, you pay in time and replacements and upgrades until you've cost yourself far more.

How many years will you be shooting? Done right, your tooling will repay you over and over.

You know the guy with the wife everyone talks about?
The rather homely. #####y, fishwife creature that he loves and adores, but everyone else avoids?

That guy loves his Lee Pro 1000 and will tell you in great detail about how it's under rated.

Ok, you are not the first telling me this, and yes this does resemble my wife. What would be your suggestions for a progressive press. If possible, could you go in detail on what kinda kit or add on's needed.

thanks for the help.

sam

 

[Canuck223]

Ok, you are not the first telling me this, and yes this does resemble my wife. What would be your suggestions for a progressive press. If possible, could you go in detail on what kinda kit or add on's needed.

thanks for the help.

sam

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?127691-dillon-lee-hornady-progressive-comparison

Here is one comparison for your consideration.

My opinion is biased. I'm one of the resident Dillon fanboys.

I also tend to look at the time spent reloading as one of the costs involved in the sport. Every minute I spend reloading tends to be a minute I can't spend shooting.

For my volume of shooting, a progressive was the only sound decision.
One with a case feeder was mandatory.
Automatic indexing wasn't optional, so that excluded the Dillon 550.

That left the Dillon 650 or 1050.

(I had a Hornady and knew it wasn't a step up so scratch it off my list)

The 1050 wins hands down for me for one reason above all. Only the 1050 can swage the primer pockets at the same time as you are handling the brass. Every other press requires you to address crimped primer pockets as an off press operation.

People about it's higher price tag. Set up for one caliber it's approx 2K vs 1k for the 650.
They about the 1 year warranty vs livetime.

The real test is to ask 1050 owners if they regret the cost, or would consider downsizing to the 650.

 

[SamLalib]

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?127691-dillon-lee-hornady-progressive-comparison

Here is one comparison for your consideration.

My opinion is biased. I'm one of the resident Dillon fanboys.

I also tend to look at the time spent reloading as one of the costs involved in the sport. Every minute I spend reloading tends to be a minute I can't spend shooting.

For my volume of shooting, a progressive was the only sound decision.
One with a case feeder was mandatory.
Automatic indexing wasn't optional, so that excluded the Dillon 550.

That left the Dillon 650 or 1050.

(I had a Hornady and knew it wasn't a step up so scratch it off my list)

The 1050 wins hands down for me for one reason above all. Only the 1050 can swage the primer pockets at the same time as you are handling the brass. Every other press requires you to address crimped primer pockets as an off press operation.

People about it's higher price tag. Set up for one caliber it's approx 2K vs 1k for the 650.
They about the 1 year warranty vs livetime.

The real test is to ask 1050 owners if they regret the cost, or would consider downsizing to the 650.

Wow, that was exactly what i was looking for. Thank you. Half way trough the article and i think i know where i am headed.

sam

 

[paperslayer]

I definitely agree that it takes a wealthy man to buy cheaper equipment. I am also a Dillon fan.... would own nothing different. I am quite satisfied with the performanc of the 550... I can load roughly 500 rounds per hour. I could load faster, but that is my output. I can't sit here and tell you that a Lee or XYZ brand is better/worse, because I haven't played enough with them. I went with Dillon because John Parsons, one of the only licensed reloaders in Canada at the time used them, sold them and swore by them. He is also the one that talked me out of spending more money on a the 1050, even though he used several in his production.

If ammo his ammo can be commercially sold after having been made with a Dillon, I figured it was a pretty safe bet and there has been no turning back for me.

 

[rubberdown]

Call it what you will, but I like my Lee Pro 1000 presses. I have 1 set up in 9mm and have done about 500 or 600 rounds with it. I have one in .45acp as well and I have done about 600 rounds with that one, hell I did just over 400 yesterday without a single hiccup.

 

[TRaTSeRiF]

I'm also a potential newb. Has anyone used the 1000 on rifle cartridges like 5.56 or 7.62x39?

 

[Spawn-Inc]

Call it what you will, but I like my Lee Pro 1000 presses. I have 1 set up in 9mm and have done about 500 or 600 rounds with it. I have one in .45acp as well and I have done about 600 rounds with that one, hell I did just over 400 yesterday without a single hiccup.

hell ya! i own 3 of them for 9mm, 38/357 and 45acp. they all have had primer issues, and i have gotten to the point i feel like smashing them, but i didn't. for the cost i'm very happy.

having 3 trays of primers preloaded and brass on hand, i was able to do 500 rounds in 1 hour in 9mm. nothing went wrong, primers fed great.

if i win the lotto, i will get a dillion 1050, but otherwise it's just not worth it to me.

 

[Canuck223]

hell ya! i own 3 of them for 9mm, 38/357 and 45acp. they all have had primer issues, and i have gotten to the point i feel like smashing them, but i didn't. for the cost i'm very happy.

having 3 trays of primers preloaded and brass on hand, i was able to do 500 rounds in 1 hour in 9mm. nothing went wrong, primers fed great.

if i win the lotto, i will get a dillion 1050, but otherwise it's just not worth it to me.

Got a picture of your wife? You might serve to prove my point.

You are bragging about having three of them, and at the same time setting the bar as high as making 500 rounds in an hour without a catastrophic malfunction best cured with a sledge hammer.

 

[rubberdown]

The Lee Pro 1000 may have a few little quirks when you get it and learn how to use it, but after a little time and patients, and not really any money out of pocket, they are a great press for the money. Like I said, I have 2 already set up, 1 in 9mm and 1 in .45acp. Being that they are priced as good as they are and come setup with everything you need for 1 particular round, I decided to get one for each round soooooo I can bolt it in place, weight my powder on the first few cases and then start cranking out rounds. Total setup time for me is under 5 minutes since I never change the dies.

IF I get my .223 AR I will get a third press for that round as well.