Lee 1000 auto prime blew up about an hour ago *PICS*
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Yup, my 1050 primer magazine detonated with 100 LP primers in the early nineties, I received a piece of something in the corner of my right eye (wasn't wearing eye protection, yeah, I know) my fault, no damage to the machine other than the inner primer tube was split, I still use the machine today. If that had happened with Lee junk I would be blind!
You will never regret buying quality. I deserve and demand the best equipment.
When was the last time (only time) anyone won anything using Lee equipment? Lee is expensive, dangerous junk.
Dillon, the best warranty in the business.
The 1000 yard group record was held by a Lee hand tool many years ago. That's the only one I can think of.
1) only if you weren't wearing safety glasses, an offence which carries its own penalty.
2) in addition to another poster's item, one of our successful CGN long-range shooters does quite well with Lee collet sizing dies. Many action-shooting competitions are won by Lee-created ammo. Many are not, and I gave mine up for smoother performance, but calling Lee "expensive" is silly, and "dangerous" is not correct. The OP was using Federal primers, which Lee recommends against, which he identified on the 2nd line of his post.
Lee themselves put a disclaimer on all their priming systems except the new XR regarding the danger of using Federal primers.
My point regarding the primer magazine explosion is that in spite of not wearing eye protection I wasn`t seriously injured (the force of it did send me into shock and I passed out in the house) because of the design and construction of the Dillon. Yes I should have had protection on, my fault, but I would be blind had I used the same machine as the op. Thank you Mike Dillon.
Which action shooting competitions are won using lee presses? I've been in action shooting since 1982, no-one that is successful uses lee.
Would you not agree that anything you pay for junk makes it expensive junk, hence lee is expensive junk, IMHO. The lee moulds and dies I had went to the Goodwill, not worth selling.
If lee presses were any good commercial loaders would use them. They don`t.
My opinion is that lee is dangerous junk based on 50 years experience. In that time I have found nothing made by lee that worked . Nothing.
Your experience and opinion may differ; tough shyt! I stand by my statement.
You will never regret buying quality. The thrill of a cheap price gets old real fast.
punkrockboy
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Maybe you should learn how to use the equipment properly.I have been using it for years without issue, and one a long range shoot last year with my Lee made ammo. Sure, there is better quality stuff out there, and maybe when Im retired, I can afford to drop a couple grand on reloading equipment, but for now, I'll use what I can afford that allows me to get out to the range as often as possible.
Your remark indicates merelyu that you have been lucky so far. I speaK from my experience, yours may differ. Good luck using your lee junk.
I agree totally. 50 years experience means nothing sometimes. I have met so many people that have such a lack of dexterity and problem solving skills that I couldn't believe how hard it was for them to grasp something I was showing them. Then there are people who in six months can learn to do a task that a 30 year veteran is still having problems with.
Yup,Lee and Federal do not get along.The Autoprime I had and never used mentioned that in the instructions I believe.I have been using a RCBC bench primer for many years and I don't use Federal primers as a rule.Was the primer that let go made by Federal?(EDIT: I see that it was,well the warning was in the instructions for a reason)I'm glad this didn't turn out worse. Mur
milshooter
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I use Lee and RCBS, hand prime only for the last 22 years and have never had a problem with any brand of primer. Never like the idea of using the ram to seat a primer anyway, just my 2 cents.
Not everybody can afford the mercedes of loading equipment, Lee is portrayed as the Kia of reloading equipment but have had no issue with their dies or presses for my semi auto's.
Now, their $30 powder measure IS A P.O.S, lots of leakage out the side disc, and that's where the rcbc measure comes in.
Not everybody can afford the mercedes of loading equipment, Lee is portrayed as the Kia of reloading equipment but have had no issue with their dies or presses for my semi auto's.
Now, their $30 powder measure IS A P.O.S, lots of leakage out the side disc, and that's where the rcbc measure comes in.
spideysteve
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More like the Lada ... If anyone remembers that thing ...
Sorry to hear it dude ... Man that sucks a5$ !!!!!
Glad you're relatively ok though ...
Personally I use CCI primers exclusively ... Typically I get them at a decent price from Henry N on here ..
How easy it is to discredit someones' experience and opinion, regardless if it is much longer and comprehensive, when it conflicts with your own limited experience and opinion. How easy to dismiss the thoughts of someone who has somewhat limited dexterity and problem solving skills compared to your own.
I must cofess my dexterity and problem solving skills are very limited compared to shooters of your caliber (pun intended).
I guess IPSC back in the early days, 1982, must have been much simpler and easier to master when compared to modern IPSC/IDPA/Action Pistol competitions especially for someone with such limited dexterity and problem solving skills as my own, so even given these handicaps it is easy to dismiss the fact that I was Ontario Provincial IPSC Champion for six of the ten years I competed, 1985-88, 91 and 92, won overall the Michigan State Championship in 1985, and dominated the Ontario League matches for those years. I can only speculate how well someone such as yourself with your far superior dexterity and problem solving skills would have fared in the same circumstances, the trophies, medals and prizes you would have collected.
Speaking of prizes back in those dark early days of IPSC the large matches all had large prize tables, my Dillon 550s and Square Deals were all won as prizes.
NONE of the prizes awarded were lee junk! None.
We old fart IPSC shooters discovered very early that if your gun and ammo didn't work you wouldn't win or even finish a match. Your gun had to work every time. Your ammo had to be perfect. We used what worked, if it didn't it was discarded.
How I managed to accomplish what I did back in those dark days using Colt 1911.45 acps, cast bullets and limited dexterity and problem solving skills must seem astonishing to shooters nowadays who could undoubtedly achieve the same performance using lee junk. I bow to your superior skills.
When lee junk came on the market I had been reloading for several years and I found the low price very attractive as I was a highschool student with very limited income so I purchased a bullet mould for my .45-70 Winchester. I was dismayed with the cheap quality and fit compared to the two Lyman moulds I already owned and very disappointed with the bullets it produced, so much so that I never bought another. Through the years many other lee junk moulds were given to me and I found that their quality had gotten worse if anything, they went in the trash and more recently to Goodwill in Newmarket. Because of this experience I never bought a lee loader of any type, obviously far too complicated for me. Other items from lee junk have proven to be p o s as well, most recently an undersize sizing die in .38 super, the threads stripped out of the decapping stem the first time it was removed. Just junk.
These are my opinions and mine alone and easy to dismiss and denigrate given my admittedly old age, inferior dexterity and problem solving skills compared to yours.
If you don't like my opinions, why are you reading them?
Ont BB #206
How easy it is to discredit someones' experience and opinion, regardless if it is much longer and comprehensive, when it conflicts with your own limited experience and opinion. How easy to dismiss the thoughts of someone who has somewhat limited dexterity and problem solving skills compared to your own.
I must cofess my dexterity and problem solving skills are very limited compared to shooters of your caliber (pun intended).
I guess IPSC back in the early days, 1982, must have been much simpler and easier to master when compared to modern IPSC/IDPA/Action Pistol competitions especially for someone with such limited dexterity and problem solving skills as my own, so even given these handicaps it is easy to dismiss the fact that I was Ontario Provincial IPSC Champion for six of the ten years I competed, 1985-88, 91 and 92, won overall the Michigan State Championship in 1985, and dominated the Ontario League matches for those years. I can only speculate how well someone such as yourself with your far superior dexterity and problem solving skills would have fared in the same circumstances, the trophies, medals and prizes you would have collected.
Speaking of prizes back in those dark early days of IPSC the large matches all had large prize tables, my Dillon 550s and Square Deals were all won as prizes.
NONE of the prizes awarded were lee junk! None.
We old fart IPSC shooters discovered very early that if your gun and ammo didn't work you wouldn't win or even finish a match. Your gun had to work every time. Your ammo had to be perfect. We used what worked, if it didn't it was discarded.
How I managed to accomplish what I did back in those dark days using Colt 1911.45 acps, cast bullets and limited dexterity and problem solving skills must seem astonishing to shooters nowadays who could undoubtedly achieve the same performance using lee junk. I bow to your superior skills.
When lee junk came on the market I had been reloading for several years and I found the low price very attractive as I was a highschool student with very limited income so I purchased a bullet mould for my .45-70 Winchester. I was dismayed with the cheap quality and fit compared to the two Lyman moulds I already owned and very disappointed with the bullets it produced, so much so that I never bought another. Through the years many other lee junk moulds were given to me and I found that their quality had gotten worse if anything, they went in the trash and more recently to Goodwill in Newmarket. Because of this experience I never bought a lee loader of any type, obviously far too complicated for me. Other items from lee junk have proven to be p o s as well, most recently an undersize sizing die in .38 super, the threads stripped out of the decapping stem the first time it was removed. Just junk.
These are my opinions and mine alone and easy to dismiss and denigrate given my admittedly old age, inferior dexterity and problem solving skills compared to yours.
If you don't like my opinions, why are you reading them?
Ont BB #206
A little defensive are we? Sorry if I hit a nerve. I apologize. Sometimes the truth hurts. I called it as I saw it and that's what this forum is about. OPINIONS. Take it easy fella.
