Wish they would have done this years ago, and wondered why they didn’t have one. I bought the RCBS one for a single stage and have used it for years. It works and I like it, just wish Lee made one a long time ago. I’d try it but really couldn’t justify it as what I have works and not buying new gadgets is one way to save money reloading.
Can't justify it? What kind of reloader are you that you can resist buying a new toy! A new smarter generation I guess.
Well I'm not rich, but I find it hard to resist new toys that promise increased reloading comfort, speed, or efficiency, and at prices under $100. I'm part of the old dumber generation looking for better faster tools .... you know, so much to reload, so little time left.
Lets see.....I started with the old RCBS press mounted swager when I was given a 100 LC 7.72 cases from 1970....old hard stuff that was hard to swage. Some even sheared off and left rings of brass in the pockets that made proud primers and I experienced my only slamfire in 35 years of reloading. I called RCBS.....they said to send in my button and 5 pieces of brass I was swaging. I did.....they sent me a new button and both their new reamers for the Trim Mate I had.....and I got by. But I never liked the hard release of the button from the case that required a hard bump of the press handle, and banging that cup hard against my R.C. casting....that always unnerved me....no danger to me but I had visions of eventually breaking the press casting.
Then a few years ago I bought a huge box of LC 7.62.....and....I bought RCBS's new bench swager.
Much, much easier to use that the old one. No bumping required. But you still have the occasional hard brass that resists swaging. So I did a ritual......swage, then a quick bump on the reamer (TrimMate) then the pocket uniformer. Excellent, and I could use my progressive and even prime on it without the usual annoying stoppages due to caught primer edges. But fast? Not hardly.
Happy with it, but then the Lee APP came along.....and it had a swager accessory and more important it had a
CASE FEEDER! Initially I was stoked, then turned off, then I actually forced myself to read carefully the directions......hey! it works.....and it's so fast....and you can adjust it for more swage until it opens and rounds it enough to seat as easy as commercial brass. Hey! And guess what? The APP also deprimes very fast, case fed, even crimped military brass. (got to do that first, right?)See below.:
So what did Lee do? They improved it? Because the one I have doesn't look like their new one.....
heck the new one doesn't even use a shell holder....has a case "centerer"
No I haven't got one yet.....but I'm the old stupid can't resist a new toy generation, so I will.....now I have something fairly cheap to add to my Christmas list that my wife and kids pester me about every year. And now Lee Precision adds another swager.....the Ram Swager?......well I guess not everyone bought an APP!
