Continues to amuse and impress. Latest? That goofy looking little powder measure.
To summarize the saga.......about 6 months back, I made the call to resume reloading for rifle after several decades of dependence on factory ammo.
Put out some feelers for equipment and found a guy who was no longer loading much, had been given a loading setup by an uncle, so had two of everything. He offered me a bunch of it for not much moolah......so I took it. Included a Lee breech lock press and about 2/3rds of what had been a Lee reloading kit. One of those was the little powder measure.
Took one look at that......vs. the RCBS Uniflow I wound up with.....and dismissed it as total junk. Just a bunch of injection molded plastic and junk metal.
But then yesterday, spent way more time than I thought I ought to trying to get a repeatable powder dump from the Uniflow. This from a coarse stick powder. The problem being that big wide cylinder that requires one to cut those coarse powder grains off to meter it. Then took notice of the Lee......with it's small diameter, but deep measure, and set it up too. To my surprise, it worked really well. In fact, as good or better than the Uniflow. Just a simple little piece of junk......that was working.
But that seems to be the case with a lot of their stuff. Simple, and inexpensive case trimmers. Dies that include that goofy little power scoop.......that likely as not is not far off from giving you a decent load.
One of the thing's I've kept over the years, something my Dad bought but never used, was one of those Lee Powder scoop kits. A collection of cc scoops. That would be one thing, but it also included a paper slide rule chart of sorts that you use to determine powder charges. When you consider the time.......nearly 50 years ago, utter brilliance.
Not for everyone, but that Lee stuff does get the job done if the job is to make something decent to go bang.
To summarize the saga.......about 6 months back, I made the call to resume reloading for rifle after several decades of dependence on factory ammo.
Put out some feelers for equipment and found a guy who was no longer loading much, had been given a loading setup by an uncle, so had two of everything. He offered me a bunch of it for not much moolah......so I took it. Included a Lee breech lock press and about 2/3rds of what had been a Lee reloading kit. One of those was the little powder measure.
Took one look at that......vs. the RCBS Uniflow I wound up with.....and dismissed it as total junk. Just a bunch of injection molded plastic and junk metal.
But then yesterday, spent way more time than I thought I ought to trying to get a repeatable powder dump from the Uniflow. This from a coarse stick powder. The problem being that big wide cylinder that requires one to cut those coarse powder grains off to meter it. Then took notice of the Lee......with it's small diameter, but deep measure, and set it up too. To my surprise, it worked really well. In fact, as good or better than the Uniflow. Just a simple little piece of junk......that was working.
But that seems to be the case with a lot of their stuff. Simple, and inexpensive case trimmers. Dies that include that goofy little power scoop.......that likely as not is not far off from giving you a decent load.
One of the thing's I've kept over the years, something my Dad bought but never used, was one of those Lee Powder scoop kits. A collection of cc scoops. That would be one thing, but it also included a paper slide rule chart of sorts that you use to determine powder charges. When you consider the time.......nearly 50 years ago, utter brilliance.
Not for everyone, but that Lee stuff does get the job done if the job is to make something decent to go bang.
