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Is It Time To Upgrade Your Press?

I'd love to. A nice progressive sounds great for volume loading banger rounds. How are they on precision? Do you get better quality rounds out of a single stage?
 
I never got into reloading. Ammo was always cheap and plentiful. I can remember a time when if a person had 100 rounds of ammo on hand others wondered why they had so much. If you needed more ammo just go to the store and pickup a box. It didn't matter what cal. it was you wanted , it was on the shelf.

Boy I sure wish those times were here again.
 
papa said:
I never got into reloading. Ammo was always cheap and plentiful. I can remember a time when if a person had 100 rounds of ammo on hand others wondered why they had so much. If you needed more ammo just go to the store and pickup a box. It didn't matter what cal. it was you wanted , it was on the shelf.

Boy I sure wish those times were here again.
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I love the news articles that go something like, "crazy gun dude was apprehended. A search of his basement turned up a cache of 200 rounds". hahahahahahaah.....I had 800 in my CAR the other day for a big family range day.....and I have never shot anything other than paper or steel. Just kidding, crazy-gun-dude apprehenders.
 
I've had a dillon 550 since '84 and had been loading 44mag, 264wm, 270win and isn't a precision for accuracy loader, but has been accurate enough for me. I never sort, weigh, except for powder. I bought another 3 or 4 years back just because I have a whole lot more calibers. The powder drops almost accurate charges. When I want to be more accurate I use it like a single stage.
 
Yes I also see no reason to upgrade from my Dillon 550b. I actually know a couple of gentleman who drag theirs around to matches and swear they are not any less accurate than single stage. I've never ever used a single stage I started out with a Dillon RL550b and I found no reason to move up I might get a bigger Dillon but that's just a want, it's not a need.
For mine I set my powder charge and its never wavered. I always stop and check throws about every 20th round and it is always the same. It's been that way since new.
 
benstt said:
I'd love to. A nice progressive sounds great for volume loading banger rounds. How are they on precision? Do you get better quality rounds out of a single stage?
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I bought a Lee Loadmaster. I don't think it's as easy as a Dillon...they are rock solid. BUT, if you are willing to put in a little effort, you are all in for about 1/3 the price. I have done about 7K 9mm. Maybe one bad round/100. That's usually when I have done something wrong or not been alert to a loose screw (press or head). My all up rounds end up within 2 gr of each other and .005 COAL. I have a good batch of Blazer brass so my case weights are pretty close round to round. I have noticed there are two weight populations on the Blazer I have. Will be awhile before I can tell if they shoot more accurately.
 
Going back to somewhere in the 70's IIRC, I loaded for many years with a "Lee" 3 hole turret press .... sometimes as many thousands per yr for various comps for both the wife and me. Then just a few yrs ago I bought the newer 4 hole "Lee" Classic turret press. Only used it for a couple yrs before we moved and wasn't shooting nearly as much as the previous yrs anyway. It was considerably more user friendly than the old 3 hole version. It had mostly to do with the 'auto-indexing' of the two presses. The 4 hole press was far more reliable in the indexing. Both made absolutely satisfactory ammo in every caliber I loaded. Mostly .357 and 9mm for the handguns, .270Win, .243. and 30/06 for the long ones.

Now they're both packed up along with all the rest of my reloading equipment. I guess it's not a real big deal for now .... components are just about as hard to come by as factory ammo.
 
jumpinjoe said:
Going back to somewhere in the 70's IIRC, I loaded for many years with a "Lee" 3 hole turret press .... sometimes as many thousands per yr for various comps for both the wife and me. Then just a few yrs ago I bought the newer 4 hole "Lee" Classic turret press. Only used it for a couple yrs before we moved and wasn't shooting nearly as much as the previous yrs anyway. It was considerably more user friendly than the old 3 hole version. It had mostly to do with the 'auto-indexing' of the two presses. The 4 hole press was far more reliable in the indexing. Both made absolutely satisfactory ammo in every caliber I loaded. Mostly .357 and 9mm for the handguns, .270Win, .243. and 30/06 for the long ones.

Now they're both packed up along with all the rest of my reloading equipment. I guess it's not a real big deal for now .... components are just about as hard to come by as factory ammo.
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Time to unpack it and put it up for sale. You could pay off your house. :LOL: :unsure:
 
Used Mequon Unitized Loaders for years, (the ones you needed a hammer for), then in 83 I went to a Lee Turret press. In 85 added a Lee Challenger 2000. State of the art-to infinity and beyond!
 
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