Lee 4 hole press

[KHornet]

Had the thing since right after income tax return time last year. (Always buy a something to do with reloading with refund-----when I get one). Have had it set up for about 3-4 months but had not need to load with it, as I had beaucoup (French for a lot of loaded stuff) ammo, but yesterday decided to try it with 9MM loads of 3.6 gr. of 700X, under the 121 Lee. Turns out quite a respectable load once you get it set right. I turned out about 175 rds in an hour. More than adequate for me, as I have been loading on single and turret presses for well over 50 years. Never did figure the time to load a box of 9MM on a single stage press, but it is fairly time laborious. It is kind of tricky to set the thing up and get it running right, but I am one of those who tends to think I know how to do it based on logic, only to find that doesn't always work, and have to go back and read the directions again (or maybe the first time). Will be heading to the indoor range as soon as I finish on the computer to test the load in my P1. Sure do like that old German pistol.

 

[Will]

I really enjoy my lee turret press. I bought a hornady LNL AP but it doesn't get much use.

 

[Ian]

I love mine, they are all the "classic cast" turrets. Have three, one got converted to a Pro-1000 3-station progressive, one got converted to a three hole turret (for speed of loading some rounds like .35 Remington where seat/crimp can be set up to work well in one die). Bought 12" of leaded steel hex rod to make the three-hole work since the "regular" turret press has shorter pillars and a shorter index rod, still need to make that part. Due to the awesome primer catching system (tube on bottom of the ram) I set up several general tooling heads for the three-hole and do all my pre-washing depriming on that one, as well as a host of other operations like final crimping of ammo produced on the three-station progressives, batch resizing, etc.

 

[KHornet]

Shot the loads I ran yesterday at indoor range today. Shot well, but think the Walther P1 needs a bit more powder. Also need to give the cases a tat less taper crimp. (Tat, is a bit less than scochie) Have been told that they prefer the upper end loads. Have 500 cases in the tumbler getting cleaned up.

 

[62chevy]

Love my Lee Classic Turret Press but can't get more than 75 rounds an hour done.

 

[Brad]

All this talk of Lee presses makes me feel blue....

 

[KHornet]

Ya, understand Dillon!

 

[wddodge]

I do all my reloading on the Classic Turret press. The only problem that I had with it is the little white square "collar" that rides the twisted shaft for the auto advance kept wearing. Now I keep just a light film of oil on the advance shaft and the collar wears forever.. I keep getting the itch to get a 650 Dillon to speed up the pistol rounds but I just can't get myself to pull the trigger. This ole Lee just works too good.

Denny

 

[Klaus]

best buy ever
love this press much
if you know to handle the Lee Products you will earn a lot of fun for a reasonable price

Klaus

 

[Cherokee]

Denny - Never used a Lee press, my 650 is great, worth the money.

 

[James W. Miner]

I removed the twisted rod so I advance by hand. More of a double stage where I size and expand, then clean pockets and seat primers with the Lee hand tool, loading block for powder measure, Redding. Then back on the Lee to seat and crimp.
I have a Lyman turret I use the same way.
The thing I didn't like about the Lee was there was no over center so I changed the linkage around.

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

One of the members of the lee web sight made a reversed twist advance rod. to reverse the rotation of the turit. It was made so that a case kicker could be added on the shaft. And the loader wouldn't have to touch the shell after it was loaded.