what press do you use?

MartyK2500 said:
I want to replace my Lee cast for forster.
With Lee i have many 0.5 thou runout ammo with the avg being 0.75/1.00 thou runout
I think runout would have more to do with dies than press, but do agree that a better aligned press could maybe generate even better averages
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This is one of many planned upgrades I will be doing in the future.
Right now I'm running 650 and Redding Big Boss.

Cheers,
 
Another vote here for RCBS, my first and only press is my Rockchucker I bought in early '77 from SIR Mailorder. Still going strong and will most likely outlive me by a fair margin.
 
MartyK2500 said:
I want to replace my Lee cast for forster.
With Lee i have many 0.5 thou runout ammo with the avg being 0.75/1.00 thou runout
I think runout would have more to do with dies than press, but do agree that a better aligned press could maybe generate even better averages
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With the Forster, the die and the shell holder are able to float a little, for perfect alignment. Also the spent primer catcher is the best that I have seen, I have never picked a spent primer off the floor since owning this press. :)
 
You guys are tempting me!
Overspent already my 2018 budget for tools and guns, only spending on powder and bullets till end of year.
If amp annealer doesn’t get me with their mk ll comming out soon, that forster coax will be there early 2019
 
I was getting 4 thou or more with my turret press and now down to around 1 with the same dies so it did help me but the lyman turret presses aren’t necessarily known for making match quality rounds.
 
MartyK2500 said:
You guys are tempting me!
Overspent already my 2018 budget for tools and guns, only spending on powder and bullets till end of year.
If amp annealer doesn’t get me with their mk ll comming out soon, that forster coax will be there early 2019
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Haha. We are in the same boat again. MKII is on top of my list as well.
 
Lee breech lock challenger, Lee breech lock hand press and picked up a Lee C frame from WSS liquidation. The challenger has served me well, the hand press does light duties occasionally and the C frame hasn't come out of the box yet.
 
I use a Lyman turret for pistol, and an RCBS Rockchucker for rifle.

I had an RCBS turret, but there was way too much play in the head. It worked well, but it bothered me. The Lyman turret was a big improvement.
 
I use an RCBS Partner single stage. I originally got it back when I lived in an apartment and didn’t have much room. Now I have a house and much more room but I just never saw a need to make a change. It does everything I’ve asked of it and has done several thousand rounds at this point without issue.
 
Mr. Friendly said:
so, any thoughts on why there's a lack of love for Lyman? they've been around for ages, so I would have thought they'd have similar market penetration like Lee, but no, literally nothing it seems?
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When I was a teenager getting into reloading I was buying a mix of Lee and RCBS, but my best shooting buddy was getting set up with an all Lyman kit. 30 years later I still run my Lee and RCBS, plus some Hornady, while he was switched over to Lee and Dillon. I suppose he might still do his low volume bottleneck cases on that Lyman Turret, but I don't even remember him mentioning the last time he fired a rifle.

I have long wondered how Lyman remains in business. They are a laggard in everything from product innovation to advertising. They still have a reasonable penetration into the bullet casting market, but otherwise I don't know anyone who thinks of Lyman as a primary contender in the field of reloading equipment.
 
Really, nothing is perfect. I have a wide assortment of brands. Take what i like of each brand, based on speed and precision.

Handloading need not be so by hand anymore. When your starting out, measuring with a 19th century scale is fine. Now we have electric dispensers by several companies.

Turrets seem to lose fans with their priming systems, yet many people post threads complaining of primer and bullet feeders in progressives.

I used a Rcbs RC for years, one older than most members here. Now i use turrets, with their priming systems. Lyman and Redding. Taking cases out of the turret to prime defeats the precision and time advantages over single stage.

For now the RC is slaved to a Lee decapping die, but i will never sell it.
 
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