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Ive been using father in laws reloading press and have to decided to buy my own. Im reloading handguns 357 45 44.I would like imput on wich press you guys like. I would like to get a setup where I could load up 100-200 rounds in 2 or 3 hours. 300-400 dollar range. thanks
 
I'm with Bushmaster, If I had $400.00 for a set up, I would go with a Lee Classic Turret Kit and get all the goodies that you need such as a decent scale, some dies, a tumbler and some brass prep thingy's. You won't need much for the brass prep, a lee trimmer and case length gauge for the 357 and 44 plus a primer pocket tool and champfer/deburr tool.
Hell, you could probably also get a Lee Classic cast single stage press with this budget too.

That set up would be all you need.

LGB
 
I can do the low end of that volume on my single stage RCBS Jr. and the high end and higher on the Lee Turret. For the low end of your price range you should be able to go with either setup plus most or all of your accessories and dies.
Take a run up to Fin, Feather & Fur in Ashland and you can probably pick up most of what you need there. Check the equipment for sale on this site and you may find everything you are looking for; if not you can probably get it all in some combination of new and used on eBay.
 
With close to 45 years of reloading experience, I have learned a few things about presses. My suggestion to you would be to buy a used Dillon 550B press. You can find quite a few online from Ebay and Gunbroker. I'm suggesting used since they may already have some of the dies and caliber changeover accessories needed by you and you will keep your initial cost down. You can not beat Dillon's no B.S. warranty and Customer Service help even if you didn't buy the press direcly from them. To top things off, Dillon is the easiest to set up and run progressive press on the market in my opinion. :)
 
I have a Lee Turret and think its great for pistol rounds you can normally chuck out about 150 or more in an hour using 4 die stations. For rifle loading including 223 I switch the Turret to load like a single stage press, since the brass has to come off the press for case prep.
 
I would suggest getting the Hornady Lock-N-Load AP Press with the upgraded EZ-Ject system seeing this also gets you one thousand (1000) FREE bullets so that helps reduce your costs for shooting. That's $300 worth of FREE bullets you won't have to buy!! For each of the additional Hornady dies you might also want to buy will also get you another 100 FREE bullets times three(3) calibers -- grand total of 1300 FREE Bullets!! It will also allow you to load much faster than a turret press seeing you are shooting pistol rounds. This press goes for roughly $375.00 mail order, but is an excellent progressive that competes with the Dillon XL-650 press for about half price with the FREE bullet deal!!

But, IF you like a really nice turret press instead, I would suggest the Redding T-7 turret press for pure quality reloading of pistol or rifle rounds! Hands down the best, most durable turret press on the market. If you ever want to swage, or fire form rifle brass for another caliber, nothing has the strength of the Redding in a turret press!

Get your equipment off the Internet from MidwayUSA, NatchezSS, MidSouthShootersSupply, or the big box stores like BassPro or Cabelas for they usually have them on sale. Supplies like primers are next to impossible to buy in quantity, but if you can get small amount locally then be sure to do so and stock-up slowly.

Now just pull the handle ;)
 
I just got my Lee Pro 1000 today to team up with single stage. Obviously can't comment on it but from all I've read I be doing more tinkering to keep it running right. That's fine with me. Price was under $165 delivered from Graf.
 
My vote is for the Hornady LnL. I have one and love it. It is easy to change calibers. If you don't have to do a primer change it can be done in less the 3 minutes. 300 rounds and hour is not hard to do, more if you push a little.
 
Ive been using father in laws reloading press and have to decided to buy my own. Im reloading handguns 357 45 44.I would like imput on wich press you guys like. I would like to get a setup where I could load up 100-200 rounds in 2 or 3 hours. 300-400 dollar range. thanks
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Is that for everything? powder, primers, bullets?
You can do 2~300 rnds pretty easily with a single stage LnL and a small 30.00 Lee single stage. The problem you'll run into is getting good quality dies. For the .45 I'd get the Lee FCD. How much equipment can you "borrow" from you inlaws???
 
I have been using a std (old style) Lee turret press for over 10yrs now. For the kind of $$$ you have to spend you could set yourself up with everything you need to do the job correctly and have money to spare.
Will
 
Lyman Turret

I recently got a Lyman Turret press in a trade. I have been using it to reload some pistol rounds and have been very happy with it. My first press is a RCBS Rock Chucker and I was surprised how much faster it is over the RC. That being said, I still deprime and then prime using an RCBS hand primer before I do the final steps in the Lyman.
 
well the main reason to get my own loading system is that our marriage has gone south.
anyhow i appreciate the advice guys i like both progressive and turret just have to decide.
 
my recomendation is that you take your money and buy a good single stage press and assesorys. Lyman sells an orange crusher package and rcbs sells a rockchucker package and hornady sells there lock and load single stage in a kit.. These are all high quality units and a good start on a loading setup. Once youve got the loading process down pat and then if you feel your not loading fast enough step up to a hornady lock and load ap or a 55o dillon. Personaly i dont see much of advantage to a turnent press. For the most part there no faster then a single stage as you do one operation at a time. Sure you have your dies set up but with a hornady you just snap your dies in and out anyway and that isnt much slower then rotating a turrent. Hornady also sells a kit to convery the rcbs and lyman to a lock an load die set up and even lees new single stage has about the same setup.
 
I would have to agree with the recommendations for the Lee Classic Turret Press. I am extremely happy with mine. Since it appears that you will be loading multiple calibers, the ease and convenience of the seperate Lee turrets makes changing calibers a breeze. It also won't cost you as much as the other brands. Welcome to the world of reloading. Good Luck
 
I have had a lee classic turret . very nice machine . sold to neighbor, and dont have to be embrassed. I purchased two hornady LNL AP . the bullets offer made it seem cheap to me. After i figured out, things to do and not do, with help from the Hornady tech service, it is one smooth machine, Since i load 44 mag, the 1000 180 grain hollow points will give me a life time supply of jacket mag bullets.

I decided on the second machine becuase I hate the hassel of changing form large to small szie primer. I use same powder, titegroup on both machines.
 
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