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The only Lee equipment on the bay is in america. Add in shipping at £30 and duty and its no cheaper especially if there are problems with it

I would avoid the Lee Turret press. It's the perfect tool for reloading pistol calibre cartridges but not recommended for accurate rifle rounds. I'm on me second Lee turret press, the first one cost me about £50, I loaded more than 60,000 rounds with it and then the government gave me £30 for it so I bought a new one.

This is the Lee press you need for rifle rounds.
http://leeprecision.com/classic-cast-press.html

The Lee hand press is a useful tool but not to use as a main press - ideal if you are camping and I use mine to set the bullet depth at the range when I'm working up loads.

I have the Lee cast classic amongst others and it is still my 'Go to' press. I only got it as an interim solution and never changed it.

Amy wrote:The only Lee equipment on the bay is in america. Add in shipping at £30 and duty and its no cheaper especially if there are problems with it

...I take it you never look on Ebay's european sites?

That was on ebay uk. All items were to be shipped from US

I would go with the cast press. The turret one I had for a while and it works, and the ammo shoots OK, but it's not the best and a little flimsy. If I was starting again I would avoid it.

Here is what I have found with electronic scales. Both the $5 and the $300 types.
Turn them on and put on your test standard.
Now turn on the flouresent light, or a vacuum cleaner, or the telly, or the neighbors car that needs a tuneup.
The readout will change. Every time. Sometimes by as much as 5g.
Electronic interference just tears them up.
Well unless you have it heavily grounded and incased in a faraday cage.

I will not use one for measuring powder.

I have never seen what everyone says the problem is with a Lee scale?
I use one of those and a old Lyman/Ohaus 500 all the time.

Burner wrote:Sometimes by as much as 5g.
Electronic interference just tears them up.

That is quite worrying, either people are knocking out some very poor quality equipment, or you need to look at your mains power wiring.

I work with analytical balances all day in my day job and have more gauge R&R and capability data than I care to count and have yet to see an interference issue (including ones plugged into and installed on our in-house built assembly machines which are full of AC motors, DC power supplies, you name it, if it was going to cause interference it will!). We control powder weights (albeit metallic powder) to +/- 0.003g (3mg) and liquid to less than that (typically +/- 2mg).

Either that or I am just spoilt by having 0.1mg Ohaus/Sartorius balances at my disposal (£1700+). tongueout

Also, a point worth noting is that when it comes to weighing things this light, even small draughts can play hell with electronic balances (not sure about mechanical ones). All of ours which I described above all have draught shields, we also try and dampen against micro-vibrations and adjust them to keep them flat/level as it can all have an effect.

Buy RCBS Beam Scale and one of the Target Master powder tricklers!! :goodjob:
Ideally ask Allan to "tune" you a beam scale!

They are fast reliable accurate (only as limited by the beam scale accurancy) and way to cheap for the value you get! :shakeshout:

I have loaded over 2000 rounds on mine in the last year - with an accuracy to within 0.05 grains

And Yes I have a BAMF electronic scale to!


Its mobile - if you ever want to do load development and have a "quiet" area to dispense some quick loads to modify or fine tune a load!
Take along prepped and primed brass
Throw in a Lee hand press

and you cooking with gas! party2 :shakeshout: