Lee Classic Cast Press $38.99 on May 30th

[Idano]

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[DaveInFloweryBranchGA]

Idano,

Don't sweat it, it happens. If they didn't put that information on there, I'd be labelling them a bait and switch outfit about now.

Regards,

Dave

 

[wolfe28]

I missed out.

But they got me on the mailing list, so I'll find out about the next one when it comes around. Sooner or later, I'll get mine; the rep I talked to said this happens a few times a year.

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[Joemyxplyx]

Follow up to "I just got mine"

The press arrived today - 1st June. Two days after I ordered it. Graf and Sons are fast.

Idano, I somehow knew they only had 50 presses for their 50% off on their 50th anniversary sale. I called at 8:00 CST and got through by 8:05. I don't know when in the queue I got through but it was a frantic few minutes. Someone said they had sold their 50 by 8:17.

Thanks again for the heads up. I am now set up to reload .308 Win. I got the Lee dies and case trimmer at the same time as the press along with Hornady LnL die bushings and a conversion bushing. Thanks to DaveInFloweryBankGA for the LnL info. I would have never known the LnL bushings would work in the Lee without Dave's heads up.

I already have a Lee Classic Turret for .45 & .38 reloading, but when Dave said: "For those that have turrets and progressives, this makes an ideal companion press to your other presses. For that price, I'd jump on one if I didn't already own one. That's an awesome deal."

I read this and jumped on the Lee for decapping and full length resizing. As well as having a side press to work up loads on.

I also got a rifle powder charging die for the Lee Classic Turret. I think I'll equip a turret with an RCBS X-Die, the powder drop and Lee bullet seater. The X-Die is supposed to extend the case life on an M1A from 4 or 5 shots to over 15 reloads. This should put me into the serious rifle ammo making business.

Thanks to everyone on THR for the education that got me from a newby in February to a pretty serious reloader by June.

Thanks again to Idano and DaveInFloweryBranchGA for helping me to get into the serious rifle reloading game for less than $100.

 

[Joemyxplyx]

Why a turret and a single stage at the same time

SSNVet asked

I have a classic turret press. Please help me appreciate how having a companion single stage will help...

I could leave it set up with a unniversal de-capping die and then pop primers before I tumble.......but why?

I could use it to swage mil. surp. But couldn't I do this on my classic turret?

It could provide more leverage for full length sizing large cases. But isn't the my classic turret robust enough to do this?

If I can pull off a little creative accounting, I hope to get a .30-06 bolt action rifle this summer. But I figured I'd only neck size my fire formed brass.

Am I missing something?

The way I see it the single stage is for decapping and full length resizing using case lube. After FLR (full length resizing) the case lube has to be tumbled off, so it makes sense to do the decap, FLR, prime and clean with a single stage then use the turret to powder charge and bullet seat later. I'm also hoping to use an X-Die on the turret without lube when reloading brass I've already sized once.

Also, I think it would be easier to make up test loads on the single stage instead of screwing with the the Lee Pro AutoDisk powder drop for a run of 10 loads of each variant of powder weight.

Just my thoughts on the matter FWIW.

Best,
Ben

 

[jr81452]

that, and those of use who are "fussy" about our rifle loads love the single stage presses.