What kind of press(es) do you use?

What type(s) of press(es) do you use?

  • Mass Production Progressive

    Votes: 29 14.8%
  • Simple Progressive

    Votes: 71 36.2%
  • 4-6 Head Simple Turret

    Votes: 58 29.6%
  • 6-8 Head Complex Turret

    Votes: 11 5.6%
  • Single-Stage Press

    Votes: 111 56.6%
  • Multiple Single Stage Presses

    Votes: 43 21.9%
  • Lee Loaders! (there's something else?)

    Votes: 8 4.1%
  • Lee APP + Other (post what "other" is)

    Votes: 17 8.7%
  • All of the above

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • I use an Ideal loading tool made in 1928 and nothing more is needed! Herrumph!

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    196
  • Poll closed .
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I use an older Lee Challenger single stage and recently added a Lee APP....love that thing so far. I'm looking at moving the Challenger into semi-retirement soon and getting a good turret press like a Lyman or Redding.
 
3 Lyman orange crushers,and a T-mag turret.

Turret does handguns. One of the orange crushers stays setup with decapper,the other two get used in tandem for rifles. They all get used enough that they get cleaned,wiped off,and lubed pretty durn regular.
 
Actually I just stopped reloading. Had to sell all my centerfire guns because I was going into assisted living and they didn't allow guns. A friend bought my last revolver and bought my Dillon 650.

I really like that press. I had all the bells and whistle on it including auto case feeder. I could easily run over 800 rounds per hour. I would practice and then reload for the week's matches. I could just keep up with enough ammo per week but it was a fun machine.
 
Actually I just stopped reloading. Had to sell all my centerfire guns because I was going into assisted living and they didn't allow guns. A friend bought my last revolver and bought my Dillon 650.

I really like that press. I had all the bells and whistle on it including auto case feeder. I could easily run over 800 rounds per hour. I would practice and then reload for the week's matches. I could just keep up with enough ammo per week but it was a fun machine.
God bless you friend. My shooting buddy and I were just BSing about our houses and how our age was impacting maintenance and their value in the current market but where would we go bla bla bla. I mentioned housing for the elderly. He thinks even if you could keep guns where could one reload for them in a small apartment. Given our increasing liberal society it could be a problem.
 
GeoDudeFlorida
I learned when working on tractors as a kid, a quality machine/tool doesn't have to be expensive or fancy or new or the latest-greatest whizz-bang; it just has to do what it's designed to do every time you use it.
[/QUOTE]I totally agree---with tools and firearms (S&W revolvers and 1911s).[/QUOTE]

I have worked with hand tools all my working life and I don't purchase tools by the name, the color, who uses them, or the cost. I have purchases tools from Harbor Frieght up to Snap-On and MAC. I buy tools that do their intended job well...
 
Forster Coax for bottle necked rifle cartridges
Hornady LNL progressive for known-good pistol loads, but I re-size and de-prime on Hornady single stage
Lyman turret press for pistol load development.
 
Started with a Hornady single stage.
Currently use:
Hornady Single stage: Small batch loading (30-06), load development.
Lee Classic Single stage: Universal decapping die, less mess with punched out primers, inexpensive versitle tool
2 Hornady LnL progressive presses. One set to large primers, one set to small.
Dillon SDB .40 press. Because you can't be a real reloader without a Dillon :D (Tongue firmly in cheek)
 
I have a Redding T7, a RCBS JR. and a Dillon 550C. The Dillon 550c is sweet. I switch between 45acp and 9mm a lot. I like the advantage of the 550c for it's simplicity and it's ease and quickness of change overs with an optional tool head. My 550c has truly uncomplicated my reloading hobby and made it more enjoyable. I don't need feeders. I need something I can set up quickly and produce the caliber I need. That's the speed in my 550c.
 
I consider my Dilon 650 a simple progressive even though it has a case feeder. I consider a mass production progressive to be an electrically or pneumatically operated press.

I have a RockChuck too, I just hardly ever use it.
 
Redding T7 for pistols and decapping. CH single stage (2) and MEC Marksman. 2 handgun calibers and 17 or 18 rifle calibers.
 
I load my pistol ammo, 223, 308 and 30 Carbine on a Dillon 550. The RockChucker is the workhorse on my bench and loads my hunting and Varmint ammo. My Benchrest ammo is loaded with Wilson Dies on an Arbor press.

I would love to have a Star Progressive, just because...........
 
My needs are rather simple. My LNL AP does all I need it to do using anywhere from 1 to all 5 stations.

I still break out the RC IV every now and then,,, if for nothing more than a change of pace.
 
Rockshucker
Dillon 450
Dillon 550 before they had owners manual- quit using after got rid of UZI
Lee pro 1000
Lee turret 3 hole
now using lee 4 hole classic
 
set up on the bench
1) T7 - considered simple turret? as was, what I checked.
2) Lee breechlock challenger- using for odd simple tasks the T7 is not allocated for.
3) but didn't record in - Lee ABLP - decap wonder for pistol cartridges, love the case collator.
 
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