BillBloggins
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I got it set up for .45, just finished off my first hundred.
This thing pounds out the rounds, scary fast compared to my Lee Turret you can also see in the picture. One thing that is a trade off is that you do not have the feel that you do on the Lee turret- the Lee has a stationary shell holder and you pump the lever for every die. So for 1 round on the Lee you need to pull the lever 4 times. The Hornady completes a round every single throw of the handle. As you have 5 operations going on at once on the Hornady feel is diminished, you cannot feel every operation on the individual dies like you can on the Lee.
You also have to keep your eyes peeled for any issues as you have 5 concurrent operations going on. It took awhile to get in the groove, it will take some time to get totally comfortable on this press. Real easy to position a light on this press to illuminate and validate your case fill. Also, I used to hand prime off-press using a handheld tool but this takes a long time. I enjoyed it, but too slow. Priming on the press is going to take the most getting used to as the feel of the primer properly going home is subtle on this Lock-n-Load Hornady progressive. And a couple times in the hundred I missed a primer and the round ended up with a gaping blowhole and Bullseye powder was a-leaking all over the place. Time to pull out the bullet puller.
If you see yourselves shooting lots of pistol/ .223, 5.56 this press is your answer. And a big draw also is that you get 500 bullets for purchasing this press with a Hornady deal they have going on, and these are high quality Hornady jacketed bullets- equals about $150. And it is good in Canada too.
This thing pounds out the rounds, scary fast compared to my Lee Turret you can also see in the picture. One thing that is a trade off is that you do not have the feel that you do on the Lee turret- the Lee has a stationary shell holder and you pump the lever for every die. So for 1 round on the Lee you need to pull the lever 4 times. The Hornady completes a round every single throw of the handle. As you have 5 operations going on at once on the Hornady feel is diminished, you cannot feel every operation on the individual dies like you can on the Lee.
You also have to keep your eyes peeled for any issues as you have 5 concurrent operations going on. It took awhile to get in the groove, it will take some time to get totally comfortable on this press. Real easy to position a light on this press to illuminate and validate your case fill. Also, I used to hand prime off-press using a handheld tool but this takes a long time. I enjoyed it, but too slow. Priming on the press is going to take the most getting used to as the feel of the primer properly going home is subtle on this Lock-n-Load Hornady progressive. And a couple times in the hundred I missed a primer and the round ended up with a gaping blowhole and Bullseye powder was a-leaking all over the place. Time to pull out the bullet puller.
If you see yourselves shooting lots of pistol/ .223, 5.56 this press is your answer. And a big draw also is that you get 500 bullets for purchasing this press with a Hornady deal they have going on, and these are high quality Hornady jacketed bullets- equals about $150. And it is good in Canada too.