Hornady Lock N Load progressive questions

[alemonkey]

I've been thinking about picking up a progressive press in the next couple of months. I've been using a Lee turret press for a while and it works well for pistol ammo, but it seems to have enough slop in the turret that OAL is inconsistent. This can cause problems with rifle rounds, especially in my AR where I like to load them as long as possible while still feeding through the magazine.

I had always thought I would get a Dillon RL550 when I went progressive some day, but after researching it the price of the caliber conversion kits seems pretty high. Outfitting a Dillon press for 4-5 different calibers could get very expensive. Does the Hornady require as much of an investment as the Dillon to convert calibers? I already have dies for everything, so I'm wondering what else would be required.

 

[bluetopper]

One shell plate for each caliber and die bushings for each die, that's it I believe.

 

[REL1203]

Oddly enough, I just this last week upgraded from a Lee Classsic Turret to a LnL. I really liked my LCT, and still am gonna use it for rifle, it was painful to sit and do 1,000 pistol rounds at a time (and I reload for 9,40, 45, 357). So far, i love my LNL. I did a couple hundred 357 and 45 last night, shot most of them today, no issues.

Each calibur you just need the shell plate and some die bushing as Parisite said. Plates are $30, bushing are about $3 or so each, so really not to expensive.

 

[Crunchy Frog]

I bought the LNL in part due to the reports on caliber changes being less expensive.

I agree that extra bushings and a shellplate are the only items needed but you will probably want to buy a separate powder measure die body for each caliber. I ordered two from Midway today, cost about $24 each.

 

[alemonkey]

Thanks guys. That pretty much seals the deal for me. Now I just need to save up the dough...

 

[Whiskey11]

And as a random aside, you will be supporting the Nebraska economy too since Hornady is headquartered in Grand Island

I bought my LNL AP at Cabelas in Omaha and don't regret the purchase at all! It pretty much comes with everything and caliber changes are very straight forward!

/wave from Omaha

 

[alemonkey]

Yeah, that's definitely a factor in my decision too. I would use Hornady stuff even if it wasn't local just because it's very good quality for the price, especially their bullets. I've shot 3 gun with the Hornady guys before and they're good people.