easyrider604
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"Um, no...just different"
Does somebody on here load rifle ammo with a Lee 1000?
My Pro1000 was in 45 acp but you could get this press with .223 dies.
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My Pro1000 was in 45 acp but you could get this press with .223 dies.
The longer you are in the game, the more equipment you will acquire. The quality of your gear will likely increase as well over time. I use an RCBS Rockchucker, a manual RCBS scale, and several different brands of dies, mostly RCBS and Lee. I load about a dozen different cartridges. While it's great that reloading allows you to build ammo for less than the cost of factory stuff, that is not its major appeal to me. It might be different if I shot a zillion rounds a year, but I don't. Obviously, I couldn't come close to producing 300 or even 100 rounds per hour. I enjoy the process of reloading, including all of the brass prep. I take my time, get a lot of satifaction from the results, and enjoy hunting and target shooting with the ammunition I end up with. My advice would be to get started with the basics, and add accessories as you need, want, or can afford them. Unless you feel you have to produce 300 rounds per hour to make it worthwhile, it definitely is not going to cost $1500 - $2000 to get started.
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"Um, no...just different"
Does somebody on here load rifle ammo with a Lee 1000?
Sorry, I thought he meant a real press!
Seriously, it and a single stage press would probably work for him, but I would buy the single stage first, and a manual before buying anything else.
I agree with everyone about manual. Good reference to refer to especially after getting load info from the net.
Before I started, I read so much stuff about reloading, I couldn't read anymore and proceeded to read some more. Obviously, my main concern is safety.
If you're willing to go slow, single press would do great. Speed will cost you $$$ or big time $$$ depending what kind of progressive you want to get.
As I mentioned somewhere in this thread, it likely set me back $1.6k (all new) to have everything I needed to reload 9mm. OVer a course of a month, I searched for stuff I needed only to realize I needed to buy this and that b/c I forgot. HAHA... I'm very close to paying my setup off thanks to casting my own bullets. I started reloading last October and will do it all over again.
BTW, I personally do not enjoy reloading. It's boring and too repetative. My only complaint is I can't load a huge inventory of 9mm. I don't have enough brass and too cheap to buy more (have to save $$$ somewhere). I'm a brass chicken now. While others are still setting up their targets at the range, I pick up brass.
Before I started, I read so much stuff about reloading, I couldn't read anymore and proceeded to read some more. Obviously, my main concern is safety.
If you're willing to go slow, single press would do great. Speed will cost you $$$ or big time $$$ depending what kind of progressive you want to get.
As I mentioned somewhere in this thread, it likely set me back $1.6k (all new) to have everything I needed to reload 9mm. OVer a course of a month, I searched for stuff I needed only to realize I needed to buy this and that b/c I forgot. HAHA... I'm very close to paying my setup off thanks to casting my own bullets. I started reloading last October and will do it all over again.
BTW, I personally do not enjoy reloading. It's boring and too repetative. My only complaint is I can't load a huge inventory of 9mm. I don't have enough brass and too cheap to buy more (have to save $$$ somewhere). I'm a brass chicken now. While others are still setting up their targets at the range, I pick up brass.
