Turret vs Classic Turret

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I'm going to use some money I got today to start reloading. I have a good solid bench and lots of once-fired brass for my first calibers (303 brit, 7.62x54R, 8mm mauser). Later I will be reloading handgun rounds. I want a press that will handle both.

I am looking at the Lee Deluxe Turret Press Kit. From Higginson it's $150, comes with the press, powder measure, scale, primer pocket cleaner, cutter, and case chamfer. I really like the idea of just swapping turrets.

Is it worth getting the Classic Turret Press instead? The safety prime system seems handy. This doesn't come in a kit though, so I'd need to buy everything separately and I'll lose the savings. I'm a student on a tight budget so if something isn't really worth the money I don't want to get it right away :)

Any suggestions?
 
Go Classic. I have a Turret which has been great and have had only a few problems. Going to keep it for rifle loading, and get a progress press for handgun loading, but the classic is just much more "solid", apparently.

I can do about 200 rounds an hour at a fast pace. 150 comfortably.
 
I've never used a normal Lee Turret Press but I own the Classic Turret.

The Classic is a nice machine. I load 40 S&W with it and I can do about 100 rds in 50 min.

Rifle calibers I do on my Challenger Press but I will be buying another turret for 7.62X39 soon.

Craig
 
TheIndifferent1 said:
I'm going to use some money I got today to start reloading. I have a good solid bench and lots of once-fired brass for my first calibers (303 brit, 7.62x54R, 8mm mauser). Later I will be reloading handgun rounds. I want a press that will handle both.

I am looking at the Lee Deluxe Turret Press Kit. From Higginson it's $150, comes with the press, powder measure, scale, primer pocket cleaner, cutter, and case chamfer. I really like the idea of just swapping turrets.

Is it worth getting the Classic Turret Press instead? The safety prime system seems handy. This doesn't come in a kit though, so I'd need to buy everything separately and I'll lose the savings. I'm a student on a tight budget so if something isn't really worth the money I don't want to get it right away :)

Any suggestions?
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if you want to do both , classic is the ONLY way to go- right off the bat you mention relatively long rifle rounds- with the "standard" you have to remove the indexing rod to load almost anything longer than pistol rounds( can't say about the 223 because i never tried it) that's a pain- i've always found the old priming t to be adequate ,( that's what it comes with) since you're only doing 1 round at a time anyway- and get a set of dial or electronic calipers as well- get your shellholders as a kit , and you'll save a couple of bucks there- just forget about women, booze and food for a while and you'll be surprized at how quickly your money mounts up
there's also one other reason for going classic- it's a 4 holer, which gives you an extra station to put a crimp die in- yes, i know the standard has a 4 holer version as well, but it's just a mod of the old 3 holer- you really want the extra "throw" length of the classic
 
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From what I can see on the Lee website, both presses have the ability to swap turrets. It is nice to have the dies set up in a turret & just swap them.

I don't know if they are interchangeable between machines though.
 
yes, both do swap turrets, provided you do 4 hole to 4 hole- i've got a herd of 3 hole that would be useless if i made the mod- the 3 holers also fit the lee 1000 , which uses a lot of the same parts as the standard- the loadmaster uses a different turrent entirely
 
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