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Interesting mix of views. I have a Lee three hole turret press, an RCBS Rock-chucker and a little Lee single die press. I have owned most of the others over the last 40 years, including a Wamadet. If I could only keep one, it would be the Lee Turret. I load a lot of calibres amd the ability to keep all dies correctly set and change over in seconds is invaluable.
Fred

If shooting is more than a passing interest and not too narrowly focused you will probably end up with both anyway.

I'm with the others here, a good quality single stage press is the place to start, it will load accurate ammunition in every calibre and give you a good grounding in all of the various aspect of reloading.

Something like the Lee Classic cast iron press is quite capable of loading .25 moa ammunition, it cost around £120 and although you could spend a lot more on a press you won't necessarily load any better ammunition.

A turret press is the ideal tool if you're loading a lot of rounds for pistol/gallery rifle or feeding a hungry AR15. I've loaded many, many thousands of this type of ammunition on a Lee turret and it's a job to beat.

The drawback with a turret is that it's not the ideal tool to Full length resize the larger rifle calibres and it's easier to make a mistake - You notice that your powder measure has bridged over and not dropped a charge - was it just that round or the last five? Hmm!

I used a Lee three hole turret press in my early days of reloading all though I never used the auto index feature. What I found was that the turret lifts slightly when the ram is at the top of its stroke. I moved it on when I bought my Lyman single station and Iv never felt the need to own any other press for the reloading I do. I have recently acquired a arbor press well earlier this year actually I use it with LeWilson neck bushing and seater dies for my .308 the 7.62x39 and my 6.5x55 rifles.

But if you are just starting out I would all ways recommend a good single station press.

bigfathairybiker wrote:When you change from a de-capping/sizing die to the bullet seater die which you have set up previously, do you have to set the die position up every time or does it lock the adjustment.

When using my single stage press (use a turret for pistol calibers), I find that even with the locking ring set it is rarely spot on from the time before...so I tend to set up the seating die each time using pre made dummy rounds and the calipers til it's spot on...only takes a few minutes...

You need these with a single press IMO. They're 100% reliable.

HALODIN wrote:You need these with a single press IMO. They're 100% reliable.

+1 I have these on all my dies now and love them.

First time I have seen them can you buy them in the UK. You learn something new every day.

Yep, speak with Jon at JDReloading.

http://jdreloading.com

I checked it out it looks to me like they only work with the RCBS rock chucker press.

They work with any press using a 1 1/4"-12 thread. Hornady, Lee and RCBS certainly fall in to this category. Which press are you looking to use them in?