Why I Like Lee Equipment

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Try resizing 5000+ military 308 rounds & form some of that brass into 250 Savage brass & 243 brass with their Reloader press, the one for $20. The press still works great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I first got married I couldn't afford to buy brass So I formed it. I still think that if I could put my 577/450 dies in it I could form it too but those dies are to big in diameter to fit in it. Great equipment I don't even look at other brands unless Lee doesn't make what I'm looking for.

 

[alucard0822]

their classic cast press can take the 1 1/4" dies also, I would have got one of those instead of my rock chucker if it werent backordered, I do some 22-250 and 270 forming from lake city brass.

 

[Liberty4Ever]

I have the Lee Classic Cast press. It's very nice, and extremely beefy. It's way more press than I need for depriming, full length resizing, swaging primer pockets, etc. I hope to use it to reload .50 BMG, but I don't have the rifle yet. I can't imagine anyone breaking this press or wearing it out, and it's made in the USA (which is now a rare thing for reloading presses).

 

[darwin-t]

I started with a Lee Turret press, bought a used Pro 1000 and have now stepped up the a Load Master. I love Lee equipment. The design of their equipment (especially the LM) is clever and ingenious. And it WORKS.

 

[BigSlick]

What presses are made outside the US ?

Lyman
RCBS
Dillon
Hornady
C+H
Redding
PW
Spolar
MEC
Forester
Corbin

are all made in the USA.

 

[RustyFN]

What presses are made outside the US ?

Lyman
RCBS
Dillon
Hornady
C+H
Redding
PW
Spolar
MEC
Forester
Corbin

are all made in the USA.

The last I heard some if not all of the RCBS presses are starting to be made in China. Not sure about the others.
Rusty

 

[Liberty4Ever]

OK. I shouldn't have said US manufacturing was rare for reloading presses. I was thinking about RCBS, and I thought I remembered one or two others moving overseas too but I'm not sure of my facts so I'll refrain from naming names. In general, it's becoming common to outsource products like reloading presses where there is a fair amount of manual assembly, but it does seem that the reloading equipment companies are resisting that trend better than most industries. Sorry I made it sound more common than it apparently is.