Press For Portable Reloading Kit

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Does anyone here have any experience with this press?

Lee Reloader Press

I spend a fair amount of time on the road for work. Places where there is not a lot to do in my off time.
Usually for a week or two at a time. I am considering putting together a portable reloading kit.
I usually clean size and de-prime my brass after a range trip. So I would only be priming charging and seating the bullets.
Mostly .223 308 and 30-06.
I'm concerned that this little press might not be precision enough to make accurate ammo.
I could just by another full sized single stage press. I have a Lee Classic Cast and it has served
me well for several years.

Thanks!
Terry
 
terry_g said:
Does anyone here have any experience with this press?

Lee Reloader Press

I spend a fair amount of time on the road for work. Places where there is not a lot to do in my off time.
Usually for a week or two at a time. I am considering putting together a portable reloading kit.
I usually clean size and de-prime my brass after a range trip. So I would only be priming charging and seating the bullets.
Mostly .223 308 and 30-06.
I'm concerned that this little press might not be precision enough to make accurate ammo.
I could just by another full sized single stage press. I have a Lee Classic Cast and it has served
me well for several years.

Thanks!
Terry
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It's mostly the dies that make you ammunition accurate. I had good luck with the Lee 2001 press years ago so I recently bought one to mount on a B&D workmate for the range. I also picked up a Lee hand press. Figured I could use it to crimp if needed. Hand press might work really well for seating.
 
Wilson dies and a arbor press..............everything you need to reload can be stored in the glove box of your truck............
 
I have used the RCBS Partner. It is a first class press.

The little Lee is smaller and lighter and is what I would have suggested as a portable. I have several of them, dedicated to various tasks. One is used to seat match ammo.
 
Have been using a Lee portable for years.
Not my first choice to FL size rifle brass, but other than that it gives yeoman service.
My match loads seat to under 1 thou. TIR, just the same as they do from a bench mounted press.
 
ruffbird said:
Try one of these, portable, makes good ammo, & quiet!
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I bought a Lee hand press last year because I couldn't fly enough .458 ammo to Australia. I could take all the bullets and brass that I wanted though, and bought ADI powder and Federal primers locally. The Lee hand press is so light that flying it was no problem and so cheap that leaving it there wasn't a big deal. I saved a few thousand bucks in a few hours with a 40 dollar tool

I don't see why more people don't use the hand press. People who don't have room for a bench, or want to load at the range or cabin, or beginners just starting out. If you move on to a bench mounted press later you're not out much. Im going to get another one.
 
The only thing you will need to be careful of is the transportation and storage of the powder. Keep it locked in an acceptable container (with some sort of humidity control)
 
Here is another option:

I have one of these but haven't used it much, seems to work great though.

Very rigid, portable, light weight and user friendly. The total weight of the press is about 6.75 pounds, it's 10.125 inches in length, and with the C clamp removed is 1.5 inches thick. It has a ram stroke of 2.5 inches, making it ideal for loading most target ammo at the range. Will resize up to 30.06 length cases including short mag. Has 2 rams - 1 for resizing and 1 for seating bullets with straight line Wilson dies. Comes with removable heavy-duty C clamp.

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I can full length resize 375 H&H with my Lee breechlock hand press. I sit in front of the TV and use it to decap brass before wet tumbling it and also resize and case mouth flare pistol brass with carbide dies. I also have a Hornady hand primer and do that in front of the TV as well. Saves a lot of time when it comes to doing the actual reloading with a single stage press. I also size cast bullets with it. That's not the most convenient thing to do with one but it does work. It really gets a work out in the winter becasue my reloading shed is not heated.
 
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