Anyone use a Turret Press????

JonB

JonB

Halcyon member
Glaciers said:
... it’s supposed to be a 6 hole version of the 4 hole LCT press.
If I wasn’t already invested in the LCT 4 station press I would be interested.
For the couple of cartridges I need a fifth station I simply use my single stage for sizing operations.
And if NOE had come out with their powder thru expanders dies a few years ago I wouldn’t need a 5th station at all.
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Lee's six pack pro is a progressive press

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NEW!The culmination of nearly 40 years of progressive press design and production. Years of comments and suggestions have been addressed on the new six pack. Proudly made in the USA.Six stations allow any brand of die be used. In-line bullet feed dies, powder check dies, etc.Simple and reliable...
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It's a rare occasion when I need a fifth station, but like you mentioned, I do same, Size/deprime on a single stage press. When I was loading 44-40, that was one I needed a fifth station...maybe 45 colt also?

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Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
No the six pack pro is a current press, the Ultimate pro is a new Turret press not out yet.
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Most of what I own is red. The iron-base Lee 4-hole turret press with the 1.5" ram and primer catch tube that affixes to the very bottom of the ram is one of the best presses out there, not sure they make it anymore. I have two of them and one is converted to three-hole complete with auto-index rod that I made from hex stock since the ones for the little aluminum base jobbies are too short. I keep loaded turrets for every cartridge I load adjusted and stored in small Folgers coffee cans together with a setup cartridge, a note about load data, and a shellholder dedicated to that particular head. I don't usually use the auto-index feature but it's nice for some things like production runs of .30-30 or .308. I bought a Loadmaster for loading .45 ACP because I got sick of having to run all the cartridges through a crimp die after loading on the Pro-1000.

If I had it all to do over again I'd probably do it the same, po'boy way, but if I could manage I'd go with a Dillon 650 and hire somebody to fill those infernal primer tubes for me, or spend a paycheck on the gizmo that does it for me.
 
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Petrol & Powder

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Ian said:
If I had it all to do over again I'd probably do it the same, po'boy way, but if I could manage I'd go with a Dillon 650 and hire somebody to fill those infernal primer tubes for me, or spend a paycheck on the gizmo that does it for me.
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The 650 is a nice machine but the manual indexing 550 is quite fast and bomb-proof.
As for filling those primer pick-up tubes, it's not bad. I obtained several spares and pre-load them. For some reason, people seem to zero in on those tubes but I find them to be far more reliable than the trays used by other types.
 
johnnyjr

johnnyjr

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RicinYakima said:
I like my Harrell's Brothers turret press very much, although I use it almost always for pistol cartridges. About the same price as the other new ones, is portable it you want it to be and came change turrets in less than a minute with 100% accuracy. Only fault is they drop the spent primers on the floor, or into a wastebasket.
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I agree with that. Love mine. Being portable is a major plus.. love it. Just ordered another 4 hole turret... johnny
 
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richhodg66

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Back to the turret presses, though I still haven't done much with it yet, I picked up a Lyman All American because it is designed to mount back away from the edge or the bench rather than hanging over the edge. I'm no mechanical engineer, but this seems to me that it would allow for a press that would work on something relatively light weight and not anchored to the floor, wall, etc. I mounted one on a sturdy, but portable grinder stand and it seems like since the movement of the press is all on the center axis of the platform, this should work well. Not the All American, but I mounted and have used a Pacific DL 166 (I think that's the model) on that same stand and it is also designed to sit back from the edge. Works well, so I guess that is proof of concept enough. Kinda like the little All American although it's clearly not very robust like the Herters 234 or one of the modern Lymans, Reddings,etc.
 
Rick

Rick

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Yeah, the Redding T-7 is sturdy. It's also the worst POS I've ever tried to load on. The ram and the die do not line up, screw the die in, place a charged, primed case in the shell holder and raise the ram slowly and watch the case tip sideways when it hits the die. Redding told me tough sh*t, live with it, do not send it back. When I complained on the other forum about the press and the less than worthwhile customer service they started sending out emails to people on the other forum slandering me.

While I do believe that most everything Redding makes is exceptionally well made that was the last thing I bought that says Redding on it. Not because of their quality but because of the incredibly crappy customer service and the slanderous emails.
 
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Petrol & Powder

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I have some Redding gear and it is top notch. However, that doesn't mean everything made by Redding will always be top notch.
Bad customer service is something different. That is a problem and it would turn me off.

I had an issue with an HP printer and a really bad experience with their customer service. As such, I will never own HP products again.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Petrol & Powder said:
I have some Redding gear and it is top notch. However, that doesn't mean everything made by Redding will always be top notch.
Bad customer service is something different. That is a problem and it would turn me off.

I had an issue with an HP printer and a really bad experience with their customer service. As such, I will never own HP products again.
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That's what I said. However, after trying an Acer laptop. Went back to HP. Mostly, because everyone else is going to the mini SD cards.........which require an adaptor for my cameras (both regular SLR's and my trail cams). :headbang: That Acer was problematic turning it on when it shut down. Took a multitude of attempts.
 
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PED1945

Active Member
Welcome. Happy to hear things are looking better for you.

I can't offer much in the way of breadth of experience with presses. I started out in 1962 at age 16 with a Herter's Super 3 press which met my needs quite well. In 1994 I was given an RCBS Jr press and a bunch of dies from the estate of a friend. This is an improvement over the Herter's press. The only modification was to replace the bike handlebar grip with a wooden ball. The Herter's press, along with a good selection of shell holders, was given to a friend of my son who is interested in getting into reloading.
 
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