Lee Loadmaster and Pro 1000

They work good, as long as you have the patience to learn how to operate them correctly. Once you can work with the few eccentricities, you will not have many problems.
 
lcq said:
I have the loadmaster. most of my problems dissapeared after I took the case feeder off it.

Brian
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I'm still finding the case feeder and the autoprimer to be the most troublesome components of the Loadmaster...one or the other will screw up every dozen rounds or so. Doesn't loading a case into the press one at a time by hand slow you down to a crawl?
 
I run a loadmaster for many hundreds of rounds, or more, between issues. Generaly a couple of thousand, then I need to clean the primer feed path.

Case feeder works very well. A regular light dry lube on the part that pushes the cases out is all I ever need.

Correct setup is key, and the manual is good in that regard.
 
Once I get it set up and adjusted, my Loadmaster rocks. I can crank out about 600 rnds of 9mm/hr. The case feeder works fine once adjusted and lightly lubed with dry lube, and the primer feed must not "run dry".

Auggie D.
 
I hate to come off as a snob, but it just seems like the Lee progressives are a pain. I don't recall seeing a user yet who didn't couch his comments with "Once you learn how to.." or similar language.

I'd rather make ammo on a Dillon than tinker with a Lee.
 
acrashb said:
I'd rather make ammo on a Dillon than tinker with a Lee.
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One doesn't tinker, one adjusts and then makes ammo. Go to a Dillon forum and listen to the moaning about primer feeds etc.

For the price difference, I'll do some adjustment.
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I must be lucky. The only problem I've ever had with priming has come from insufficiently swaged rifle brass. I clean the slide every time I switch calibers, but that's often 5-10-20 thousand rounds later.
 
I don't know about lucky - most dillon owners have no problems, as do most lee owners - it's just that the people with problems get very vocal (on both brands). The cleaning you describe is pretty much what you do on a Lee, although I can't go that many rounds between cleanings because it's a gravity-fed slide and grit hangs things up.

Someday I'll try a 650 and see what the fuss is about. I'm sure they're nicely made.

To be more clear than the earlier post, 'tinkering' implies constant fiddling, as opposed to adjustment which implies "set and forget". The first would be nasty, the second is OK by me.
 
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