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Some of you love them and some of you hate them, but Lee Loaders and the plethora of products that followed them are part of the reloading landscape. As such, it’s worth noting that the long absent and inactivity the Lee Loader Forum is back up and running. I usually check once a month or more but I missed the fact that the site is back up as of 10 August apparently.
Glad you’re back, Ranch Dog!
Froggie
Good news!Quote:
Originally Posted by Green Frog
OH YEA, I scrolled top to bottom and bottom to top of the whole forum and could not find it as a forum or sub forum!
Is this the forum you are talking about?
https://www.lee-loader.com/index.php
I was a member years ago and after seeing this I tried to log on to the site. No go. Tells me I used a wrong password and it was my original password from my notebook. Wrote them a note and we will see if they allow me back on. james
Many of us cut our teeth on the old whack-a-mole.
TNSailorman, I just went to the site, following the link provided above, and logged right on with my stored password. I’m sure you will be able to make it back on soon.
Like many others here, I have a sort of love-hate relationship with the various Lee products, but the ones I like, I really like. I haven’t used a Lee Loader set to actually load ammo for a couple of decades, but I won’t give up my old single load hand primer tools with the screw in shell holders. I use those all the time!
Anyway, if you want to find information about or discuss any of the Lee products, current or past, they are interested in the subject there. I might even run into you there myself.
Froggie
I love the Lee Loader!!
I started out reloading .44 Magnum with a Lee Loader, a set of their powder dippers, and a Lee Auto-Prime. My LGS was a very small Mom-n-Pop operation that was well stocked with reloading stuff, including their own in-house cast boolits. Happily, they offered the Lyman #429348 185 gr .44 wadcutter.
So, right out of the gate, I wound up with a winning light .44 load using that boolit and the 1.0 cc dipper of Unique powder.
If you're systematic about it, you can load 50 rounds of ammo with a Lee Loader quite efficiently, time-wise.
Green Frog, I went to the site last night and managed to get onto the place to change my password and it worked. I am now back on site, hope to see you there also. james
Good news! A few years ago, 2013, I got tied of all the Lee Haters voicing their "opinions" (many, many unfounded) and searched then joined Lee Loaders forum. Very good, friendly, unbiased, informative forum for us "low life Lee lovers"...
I joined it too and look forward to interacting with all these nice folks. I always wondered who Ranch Dog is. Now I know.
6string must have 3 hands and a big hammer to crank out 50 rounds with speed.:bigsmyl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by 6string
Speed is often mentioned as a problem with Lee Loaders. But, check this out; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeEl9wZyabc
Actually, if you're batch loading, you should be just about as quick with a Lee Loader as with a single stage press. And you don't have to waste time changing dies in the press! :bigsmyl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by lightload
I just signed up for an account on the Lee forum as well, new here so I'm trying to learn and take in as much knowledge as I can. Hopefully they approve my account soon. I've been doing alot of studying, reading different load data and stuff like that, I learned something very interesting about the Lee Classic I'm about to make a post about.
Welcome to the wonderful, oft confusing, frustrating world of reloading and casting boolits. I usually make Castboolits my first daily forum stop, and I usually find info on just about everything dealing with cast boolits.
Go slow, double check everything and most important, have fun...
Hi, just rejoined after years, I'm looking for a 41 magnum lee loader. Any ideas? Thank you Dean
You might try posting a “wanted to buy” message on both this and the Lee Loaders forums. Sets in 41 Mag aren’t real common but maybe you’ll get lucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by dean1957
Good luck!
Froggie
Never used one. But wish I had one for 16ga and 20ga. Sort of hard to find these days, and usually with a hefty price. They've got their place though.
The other day I loaded a handful of 45-70 cast/ Unique shells with a Lee Loader in the time it took my buddy check out his new Henry with factory loads.
I also have one for .223 and a Target model for the 30-06.
Pretty neat things, I say.
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WTB 41 mag. Thank you
Thank you
This will probably work better and keep you out of trouble with the site administrators if you post your request below on the “Swappin’ and Sellin’ “ pages of the Forum.
Froggie
PS Just noticed you’re a new member with just a few posts. You’ll need to hang around and join some discussions to accumulate sufficient posts to gain access to S&S. Sorry I missed that.
Well, I don't know about that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Green Frog
Size 300 cases in a press, then do the same with the whack-a-mole and get back to me.
For me, where the Lee Loader shines is in load development at the range, where you try different loads in your primed, sized and flared cases. This is especially handy when you are experimenting with an untried powder/bullet/boolit combination that your rifle may or may not like. Dragging a box of cartridges 35 miles home to break them down when you discover that your gun hates the sight of them is a matter best avoided.
Lee loaders fill a niche, even the "knee squeezer"! You don't always need the most expensive tool to do a one time job.
Hey rintinglen, didn’t mean to ignore. My method is sort of hybrid. When I have very many cases of a single caliber to reload by whatever means, I usually start by “pre-processing” all of them on a bench press with a carbide sizer and decapper. Then I load batches of finished rounds by whatever means seems appropriate at the time. Having all this reloading gear in my basement is both a blessing AND a curse sometimes! [smilie=l:
Froggie
Yep back in the dayQuote:
Originally Posted by Shawlerbrook
A Lee loader is what got me started metallic cartridges, back in 1980 or 1981. Used it long enough to get 1-3/4" groups at 100 yds with my .308. I figured that was good enough, since I lived in a shotgun only zone for deer.
I was hoping that when I clicked to the Lee Loader forum, it would have Michael Jackson singing "JUST BEAT IT!" in the background. :kidding:
It's what got me started. I'd never willingly go back to it, but RE-SPECT.
You guys do realize that the Lee loader forum isn’t a forum just about lee loaders correct? It’s a Lee precision forum the covers all aspects of Lee precision equipment and handloading! You know like Cast Boolets just isn’t about Cast Boolets!
I like the concept of the LeeLoader
I decided I would try to get one, or two, per rifle
one for cast, one for full length gas checks
I found in my inventory a few I didn't need anymore (225Win) and collectors wanted them.... so sold some, traded some
Some are rare, but with the LL in hand, I will be trying to replicate the ones I can no longer get
I DO have a couple TargetZeroError ones. one in 222Rem, 243, and one other... escapes me at the moment.
I think I can use the 222Rem to ream out 223Rem brass to make them fit better for cast.
AND I have a tight necked 222Rem reamer that I plan on using on a 219Savage Hornet to convert.....
Dang, wish I had a lathe!
Well, I joined up. I'd been wanting to some time back, but it was down. I do love certain lee products, the Lee Loader and Hand Press is at the top of the heap.