50BMG presses without the kits

legi0n said:
apparently Lee Classic Cast press works for 50bmg
if you have the dies, this might be the way
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Firehoser said:
Lee Classic Cast Press will accept large dies and comes with adapter for smaller dies.
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Well I ended up ordering one of these from Brownells (about $60-90 cheaper than anywhere I could find in Canada, even with the exchange). I know that it's not some big and bada*s 50bmg press, but for the amount of shooting that I do, or more accurately that I have time to do, this press should be just fine.
 
photog_shooter said:
Well I ended up ordering one of these from Brownells (about $60-90 cheaper than anywhere I could find in Canada, even with the exchange). I know that it's not some big and bada*s 50bmg press, but for the amount of shooting that I do, or more accurately that I have time to do, this press should be just fine.
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Just be careful when sizing your casings with the Lee press to not end up kissing the die and press with your forehead when the handle breaks. The handles breaking is a common occurrence. Lee is great for warranty, but won't cover injuries as far as I know.
 
alberta tactical rifle said:
Just be careful when sizing your casings with the Lee press to not end up kissing the die and press with your forehead when the handle breaks. The handles breaking is a common occurrence. Lee is great for warranty, but won't cover injuries as far as I know.
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The handle is MADE to fail, to protect anything else that may be damaged by hamfisted operators. Just like a fuse protect's the electrical circuit.
 
zuke said:
The handle is MADE to fail, to protect anything else that may be damaged by hamfisted operators. Just like a fuse protect's the electrical circuit.
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Ah lemme see here. A "press" is a mechanical device that compounds the energy put onto the handle through mechanical advantage or multiplication in order to apply force to in this case re-size casings.

If a handle breaks during "normal" operation, which I have both seen and experienced on several occasions with this particular press when being used to size 50 cal casings as said press is advertised to be capable of, it is not at all like a fuse, it is a design defect that injures people.
There are FAR better ways to engineer in a safety feature such as a sheer pin in the linkage being 1 example, or even having the handles bend, which they do not, they sheer off, so I find it very hard to believe that Lee engineered a weak point into their handles.

IF in fact the handles of reloading presses were engineered to break if reasonable operating force was applied, why is it that other makers of similar presses never have handles sheer off?
 
I bent my Lee handle on an exceptionally belligerent 50 case. I just replaced it with a 7/16" diameter piece of steel rod.
 
*MALICE* said:
I bent my Lee handle on an exceptionally belligerent 50 case. I just replaced it with a 7/16" diameter piece of steel rod.
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Some of the 50 cal casings can be a royal ##### to re-size. Some of the surplus brass floating around has been shot out of M2s that obviously were not headspaced correctly and they can be very belligerent for sure. Brands of sizing lube and press can really make a difference on those ones.
 
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