WANTED: RELOADING OUTFIT

As complete as possible. Anyone upgrading or got one they don't use much

I have recommended this to several friends and co-workers who have very limited funds for hobbies. All have been very happy with it as it has all tools needed except dies and case trimmer gauge.

I've got a Lee 4-holer with an extra turret that I could let go. It's practically new, I just couldn't get used to that system. Fortunately, I kept my single-stage press so I can keep on working. I also have a Lee 'safety Powder Measure' that I've outlived. It's cheap, both in price and quality, but it seems to be accurate enough. $50 and I'll ship it all to you.

Derald

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i can say the Lee hand press is a good deal. I recently sold a complete set that would have gave you most of what you needed. The Lee hand press is the cheapest press you can get that works well

If you want a very nice set, and can spend some money. Look and the ROck chucker kit.

# As complete as possible. Anyone upgrading or got one they don't use much # anymore? # I just reload in whatever I'm wearing at the time... There are special outfits you're supposed to wear? HOW COME NOBODY EVER TELLS ME THESE THINGS!?! Does Cabalas carry it in my size?

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Charles Winters suggested you avoid second-hand stuff unless you get a chance to see it first. That's not bad advice and if he hadn't gone to such great lengths to point out his version of best, I'd just roll up my tent and wander off into the desert. Instead, I'm going to tell you (and anybody else who might be interested) how I came to reloading. Like you, I asked advice from those whom I thought might know more than I. Almost invariably, they told me to use RCBS or Dillon or Redding equipment. My claims that I only wanted to load a few cartridges at a time seemed to float off into the nether world of cyber-space. No one seemed to read anything but the simple statement that I wanted to start reloading. In my three-score and eight years, I've occasionally had the unfortunate experience of starting something that I later lost interest in. Those experiences taught me that it might just happen again with reloading. Since I don't have apipeline into Bill Gates' bank account, I elected to go cheap at first, expanding to bigger and better stuff later if it became worthwhile. So I haunted the classified ads until I found another soul who had tried his hand at reloading and decided to give it up. He had a Lee Anniversary kit plus some RCBS dies, a couple of pounds of powder, some 357 bullets and cases and four boxes of primers. He wanted $100 for it and I talked him down to $80 out the door. On the way home I bought a Speer loading manual and spent the evening reading it. The next day I loaded 50 rounds of ammo and went to the range to shoot it. Since then, I've loaded several thousand rounds with that outfit and my only complaint has been due to my own fumble-fingers dropping cases full of powder on the floor as I load them into the press. So I started looking for a turret press that would allow me to load a fired case onto the ram and leave it there until it had all the components in it and the bullet seated. THAT would solve the problem of powder all over the floor... I thought! Another unfortunate product of those three-score and eight years is my inability to learn new things and new ideas quickly. I found that I was indeed loading the fired case onto the ram, I was punching the primer out and then pressing a new one in, I was expandding the case properly too. But entirely too often I also found that I was pouring the powder toward the case rather than into it. I couldn't get it through my thick skull that I was supposed to pour the powder when the ram was at the top of the stroke. Not only that, but due to the neccesity of being very extra careful about what I was doing and when I was doing it, I was actually loading less ammo than I had before. Now, that's not the fault of the press or of Lee Precision