how presses do you own

4 for me but planning on an other.

1- 650 with bullet feeder for 9mm and.40
2-550 for large primer .45/44mag eventually
3-Lee single stage to process full resizing .40
4- RCBS 4x4 that i used for 38-357 15 years ago but now in a box( will prefer to set the 550 for those)

Finally, i really want the 1050 with mr. Bullet feeder and motorized but that's a 3k investment.
 
Had 9 but now down to 7. Most are dedicated to 1 cal or 1 purpose except for the Lee Classic Turret. 31 different bullet molds.
2 Dillon XL650's, Lee Classic Turret. Lyman and Mec 600. The rest are lee for bullet resizing and depriming tasks.
 
Dillon 650 for 9mm and 223,300aac
Dillon 550 for 45-70,45,308,44,357
Lyman Tmag 2
Lee 12 gauge
Lee 20 gauge.
Lee single stage cast
Rcbs rockchucker
•Lee hand press for in truck out hunting and range load development.
Star lubesizer.
Rcbs lubamatic
LYMAN lubesizer
And in the way are Mec 12 and 410
 
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I have two presses right now. I have a progressive Dillon 550B that I do almost everything on, from rifle to handgun. I also have an old style Lee single stage Precision $30.00 single stage press I use with a universal de-capping die for removing military crimped primers: that die has a much stringer pin in it and I don't have to worry about my sizing dies getting a broken pin.
 
One... I started with the Lee 50th kit as well, then bought the cheap Lee C frame press for light tasks... sold them both and bought a Lee Classic turret... currently the only press I have, but I don't do any precision rifle. Need that little C-frame unit back just for bullet sizing... Then I want a Loadmaster...just cuz:)
 
I have a Rockchucker, a Coax, a Lee handheld and a 700 Versamec. If i was to go back to loading a lot of 223 or get into pistol rounds, I'd have no hesitation getting a progressive for them, likely a Dillon. But, I'd do a lot of research on it before going to buy it. I'd probably want to try before buying, fortunately, I live in an area where doing that, would be pretty easy.
 
Just 1 old Lee classic turret press. Its all i've ever used and it works just fine. I guess if i ever tried something different maybe i'd upgrade, but this one works fine for me. I only do rifle stuff and only a handful of calibres and probably not in the huge quantities some of you do.
 
I have 5 Lee Pro 1000 presses, I bought 3 new and 2 used with lots of extras. I use 4 of them for pistol, and all are set up ready to do all the time with powder and primers usually left in the machine, 9mm, .45, .44mag, .357mag. I use the 5th one as sort of a single stage setup and have done some .223 rounds but have yet to test them out. I guess you could call me lazy (or smart) as I would never want to head out to the shop and spend 30 or 40 minutes just switching over and setting up making sure powder measures and bullet depths are all correct. This way, I take whatever press I want to use off the shelf and bolt it to me welding bench in about 30 seconds and start pumping out ammo.

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No you are not crazy for wanting a second press reloading pistol shells is a lot of work on a single stage because of the volume one shoots a pistol. Most times at the range I will shoot two hundred rounds so something much faster than a single stage sounds like a good idea. I have two stars and a CH for reloading pistols two rcbs presses for rifle shells one is a progressive and a ponsness warren and a pacific hornaday for shot shell reloading.
 
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