It looks to me like its the table top flexing under the press.
New Lee Precision products for 2012
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It looks to me like its the table top flexing under the press.
But of course Lee will claim THEY invented it and Bonanza copied it! Nonetheless, it looks like a nifty unit.
I like the puller, it would be fast and easy.
I would never pay money for the interchangable press bases. Pretty easy to make yourself.
The trimmer looks nice but you would still have to remove the case from the shellholder to dump out the brass shavings, and I wouldn't like the brass shavings getting all over my press either, so 'no' to the trimmer for me.
He mentioned on the factory crimp / seater die that the crimp is applied only after the bullet is fully seated. That might be a nice die in calibers for which I use a factory crimp die already as it would save a step. The volume I load in these calibers is pretty low so time saved isn't really of concern, so I doubt I would bother with it.
I would never pay money for the interchangable press bases. Pretty easy to make yourself.
The trimmer looks nice but you would still have to remove the case from the shellholder to dump out the brass shavings, and I wouldn't like the brass shavings getting all over my press either, so 'no' to the trimmer for me.
He mentioned on the factory crimp / seater die that the crimp is applied only after the bullet is fully seated. That might be a nice die in calibers for which I use a factory crimp die already as it would save a step. The volume I load in these calibers is pretty low so time saved isn't really of concern, so I doubt I would bother with it.
But of course Lee will claim THEY invented it and Bonanza copied it! Nonetheless, it looks like a nifty unit.
However you can't deny Richard Lee's innovation. He probably has more reloading patents than everyone else combined.
Even Dillon was paying royalties to Lee for the Dillon powder through expanded die. I think that patent has now expired and many other companies now have powder through dies.
Very true. I have a basic Lee press and mostly Lee dies and will prob. get a Lee Cast turret press as I'm doing more handgun shooting now. For value for money, Lee can't be beat, even if their stuff isn't as "belts & braces" as some of the others. Richard was certainly the master of shameless self-promotion, though. I can't quote off the top of my head at the moment but I've read some smug statements from him to the effect that, "ours is the best and all the others are over-priced crap" which is not quite true! (I will admit to some serious drooling at the Dillon 550 my neighbour bought a while back.)
I heard about the new bullet puller back at the beginning of March when I found my kinetic puller wouldn't pull the .223 bullets for my old Martini-action Hornet. I e-mailed them and said that since they already had a good collet die, why not make a press-mounted bullet puller and they replied:
Stuart
