Lee turret reloader

[stevo]

Is $350 a decent price for this entire setup? She shows what all is included in the vid.



Stevo

[stevo]

Damn, no one?

Stevo

[soap]

that's a good deal if it really comes with all those extras.

[dee]

Might be a good deal you may look up a bit on the loader itself Lee had a few that were prone to breaking after some use.

[Sleeper]

you would be better off with the rcbs starter kit imho. Ive got the lee classic turret aka the nicer of the lee turrets. It all boils down to how much are you going to reload and what.

The down fall to these presses to me is the lack of adj on the powder drop. Mine uses pre drilled discs with varied volumes. You are stuck sometimes as there is a big jump from say 22-24 gr. Im going to buy a hornady/rcbs electric powder dispenser to solve this problem. I want more precision.

[Gtracer]

you would be better off with the rcbs starter kit imho. Ive got the lee classic turret aka the nicer of the lee turrets. It all boils down to how much are you going to reload and what.

The down fall to these presses to me is the lack of adj on the powder drop. Mine uses pre drilled discs with varied volumes. You are stuck sometimes as there is a big jump from say 22-24 gr. Im going to buy a hornady/rcbs electric powder dispenser to solve this problem. I want more precision.

I use a Lee Pro Perfect Measure Drop...seperate from the press and it works great. Speeds up the process great and only cost $40-$150 depending on brand. Plus, I have heard the electric drops are not as accurate as you would think.

With my drop...on the . every time!

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[Sleeper]

Exactly my point gt. It defeats the purpose of having w turret when you are putting the powder in off the press imho. Might as well just get a great single stage vs a ok turret.

[Gtracer]

Exactly my point gt. It defeats the purpose of having w turret when you are putting the powder in off the press imho. Might as well just get a great single stage vs a ok turret.

Take the rod out of the turret press, you have a single stage without the work of changing dies...

Better than a single stage in my opinion, by just removing the rod.

[futant]

Exactly my point gt. It defeats the purpose of having w turret when you are putting the powder in off the press imho. Might as well just get a great single stage vs a ok turret.

Im just starting out, and I really wanted a turret for the speed, but i decided to go this route (forster coax and quality individual tools)

I am glad i did. For 3 reasons mainly :

quality ammo is worth taking more time for (didn't think id ever say that!)

setting up a turret to go fast, will take a little time, and could even be more error prone than just plain doing a good job.

flexibility , and not having to buy turret specific stuff (pidgeon holed IMO)


definitely don't bother if you won't dispense the powder on the turret press, because without that youll just be handling the cases more often anyway like a single stage. thats the only way it saves any time at all

[futant]

Take the rod out of the turret press, you have a single stage without the work of changing dies...

Better than a single stage in my opinion, by just removing the rod.

I can change dies in 2 seconds on my forster. I don't though because i prefer to process big batches , one step at a time. call it QA

[Gtracer]

I can change dies in 2 seconds on my forster. I don't though because i prefer to process big batches , one step at a time. call it QA

I do one step at a time, and then twist my turret 1" to the right and BAAM, next step please.

I load 10MM, .223 and 500 and have yet to have a problem. All of my measurments are within .001 everytime, so I would say that it is just as accurate as what you are stating.

I actually have a single stage as well, bought it when I picked up my 500. I thought it woudl be more accurate due to less flex but wow, I was suprised that it did just as well as my turret.

[GSXRK5]

I use a Lee Pro Perfect Measure Drop...seperate from the press and it works great. Speeds up the process great and only cost $40-$150 depending on brand. Plus, I have heard the electric drops are not as accurate as you would think.

With my drop...on the . every time!

http://www.amazon.com/Lee-Precision-...powder+measure

I have this one as well and it works well with certain powders. But I can tell you with H110 powder is able to drop from the side and cause inaccurate powder charges. Recently found this out loading 300blk. Although with Varget, H4198 no issues.

[Gtracer]

I have this one as well and it works well with certain powders. But I can tell you with H110 powder is able to drop from the side and cause inaccurate powder charges. Recently found this out loading 300blk. Although with Varget, H4198 no issues.

I use H110 in my .500, have seen the leakage out the side, however it is much less than the auto disk and considering that you put the case mouth up against the funnel; there is not risk of any extra spilling it.

I put a stainless tray under mine and just collect the spillage. I also check every 5th case for charge and it is 100% consistent so far for over 500 rounds. The powder falling out the side is not coming from the charging cylinder; it is falling from the space between the powder funnel and the charging cylinder.

I use cylindrical powder as well as double base smokeless powders and they all work well. The one thing I did notice, is Lee's instructions as far as the markings on the charging cylinder.

They say if you want 23.4 then you need to turn it to the 2, then three full rotations more, then put the marker on the number that you want that is marked on the charging cylinder. Make sense?


Either way, I just twist, measure, twist a bit more to dial it in, and then start pounding out charges.

To each his own though I will always believe in the Perfect Powder measure, others have their choices that they believe in. The one and only way to really find out is to buy, try, sell, buy, try, sell...