Lee Turret Press
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:00:00 GMT
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I picked up last night from my local gun shop a new
Lee 4-Hole Turret Press with auto-indexing. As usual, Eddie got it
for less than it would have cost me by mail-order. I was able to load
the .44 Magnum Cowboy rounds that I shoot in my 1894P in twenty to
thirty seconds per round. This is two or three times as fast as I can
do it with my old single-stage press, though it's not quite a fair
comparison since with this press I skipped cleaning the primer
pockets. The auto-indexing is a little flaky, but for $70 it works
well enough. Me like 'em.
With a single stage press, I resize all the cases, then clean the primer pockets, then prime all the cases, then flare all the cases, then charge all the cases (throw powder), then seat and crimp the bullets. With this press, I do it a round at a time. The case comes out of the loading block, goes into the press ram's shell holder, gets resized, primed, flared, charged, and a bullet seated in three upstrokes and one downstroke of the ram. The only thing I'm missing is a powder thrower connected to the top of the flaring die. That would save me a few seconds per round. I also want a 3-hole turret for .44 Magnum. I'll use the 4-hole for .444 Marlin, where I use a separate crimping die.
for less than it would have cost me by mail-order. I was able to load
the .44 Magnum Cowboy rounds that I shoot in my 1894P in twenty to
thirty seconds per round. This is two or three times as fast as I can
do it with my old single-stage press, though it's not quite a fair
comparison since with this press I skipped cleaning the primer
pockets. The auto-indexing is a little flaky, but for $70 it works
well enough. Me like 'em.With a single stage press, I resize all the cases, then clean the primer pockets, then prime all the cases, then flare all the cases, then charge all the cases (throw powder), then seat and crimp the bullets. With this press, I do it a round at a time. The case comes out of the loading block, goes into the press ram's shell holder, gets resized, primed, flared, charged, and a bullet seated in three upstrokes and one downstroke of the ram. The only thing I'm missing is a powder thrower connected to the top of the flaring die. That would save me a few seconds per round. I also want a 3-hole turret for .44 Magnum. I'll use the 4-hole for .444 Marlin, where I use a separate crimping die.
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