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Dave, the game is up.

Everyone knows about the selectiveness of your memory "loss".

Right oomans, we've been re-reading our Lymans' 49 on our journey through the tunnel to Paris and surfin' t'interweb fora for more advice on reloading. We also had a nice chat with the oomans at Norman Clark's in Rugby afore we left too: we popped in for a 7mm bronze brush and left with a pile of advice on reloading.

We think we're going to get a turret press with 4 stages on it, but disconnect the auto-advance and use it as a single stage press, performing one operation at a time to keep things safe and simple. Once we have done a hundred cases, we can manually pop the turret round a stage and perform the next operation a hundred times and so forth. In the future, we can also get a second turret and dies, and swap between calibres by swapping over the turrets. That way we can leave thing set up and not introduce lots of faffing about associated with changing dies every time.

We think Lee dies will be suitable for us, but we're still undecided about which brand of press...

Badger: I have a RCBS single stage press and a Lee turret press which pre-dates the 4-die models by many years. I can't remember exactly when I bought it, but I have lived here for 24 years and it was old when I moved in. All my reloading, for several calibres, is carried out on the Lee press. The cast, single stage press is used for re-forming brass---I shoot a lot of obsolete calibres. I also have a small, single stage Lee press which is fitted with a Lee universal decapping die and used for that purpose only. After shooting, brass is decapped and goes into an ultrasonic cleaner. I don't use a tumbler any more, although I have one. Shiny brass doesn't work any better than matt finish and the ultra-sonic cleans inside as well as out. ( I also shoot a lot of black powder loads). When dried in the airing cupboard, brass is re-capped and put into stock, unless it needs annealing first.
Beware the urge to full length re-size. If the brass only goes into one rifle, it is usually completely un-necessarry and just work hardens your expensive brass.
Fred

Here you go, oomans, this is the beastie we're trying to feed...

Nice!

Very nice Badger, see now that wasn't hard was it?

Blu

I'd still go with the Breech lock press system, you'll only be using 2 or 3 dies per calibre and it's a lot more solid/steady than the turret.

If you do get a turret get the cast version as a. it's a lot more solid and b. it's higher than the standard turret so longer rounds like .308 etc. will clear the dies when the turret rotates.

Nice Bang Stick BTW

Thanks oomans, a cast turret press is moving up the list.

Who makes good brass for 7mm Rem Mag ?

Nice looking rifle.

Brass wise, I like Remington.

Nice looking shooter. Presumably you have a tunnel range.
My 7mm brass was some nice new (dirt cheap) Sako 264 Magnum brass passed through the Lee full length 7mm Mag sizer die and then trimmed and loaded. It works a treat.