Reloading presses

**Gunnerman** · 10-03-2010, 03:54 PM

I have the Hornady LnL AP love it. I also have the Dillon RL550B. I would recomend either.

**kyratshooter** · 10-04-2010, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by coyote hunter

I am going to buy a press and Iam having trouble deciding between the RCBS Rock Chucker Supreme and the Hornady Lock N Load any suggestions ? Also has anyone used any of the Ramshot powders ?

Over the past 40 years I have owned gear from all the present makers and some that are gone. I started on a Herters press I paid $12.99 for. I have three set up on the bench right now, an RCBS and two Lee products, a hornady powder dump, a Lyman lube/sizer and Pacific scales.

I can honestly say that I have never bought a piece of bad gear from any maker I have ever delt with. You will find little glitches you do not like and other things you really appriciate in whatever you buy.

I have had gear I did not like, but it was not bad gear, just my own preferences.

Remember to not get stuck using only one color on the workbench. Some gear is better than others for specific applications and going with all one color will lock you out of some good gear. Besides, spray paint is cheap.

**Alaskan Survivalist** · 10-04-2010, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by kyratshooter

Over the past 40 years I have owned gear from all the present makers and some that are gone. I started on a Herters press I paid $12.99 for. I have three set up on the bench right now, an RCBS and two Lee products, a hornady powder dump, a Lyman lube/sizer and Pacific scales.

I can honestly say that I have never bought a piece of bad gear from any maker I have ever delt with. You will find little glitches you do not like and other things you really appriciate in whatever you buy.

I have had gear I did not like, but it was not bad gear, just my own preferences.

Remember to not get stuck using only one color on the workbench. Some gear is better than others for specific applications and going with all one color will lock you out of some good gear. Besides, spray paint is cheap.

I've had similar experience, It's to bad manufacturers of other products don't adhere to the same standards. Good comment!

**kyratshooter** · 10-04-2010, 03:31 PM

I think it has something to do with the mind set of reloading mfgs. They usually have a heavy tool and die background where acceptability is measured in +-.002 tolerances and not "can we get away with it".

They present a well engineered product to people that generally know what they are buying. We are a picky bunch, and when a whole segment of an industry can impress us they are offering good stuff.

It used to be that the firearms mfgs were just as efficient. You bought a Winchester/Remington you had a world class gun. S&W or Colt was the same. Sending a new gun back to the factory was unheard of, unless it was for engraving. Even H&R and Iver Johnson made a less expensive product that you could still stake your life on.

Warrenty? You didn't need a stinking warrenty. It was going to work for the rest of your life! Probably for your grandkids lives too! (can you inagine the look on the armory sgts. face if I asked him if my Union switch and Signal 1911 he had just issued me had a life-time warrenty?)

Now we feel elated when a gun works right out of the box without being returned for tune up.