Originally Posted by
tazman
Any brand new press you have to fix before it will work properly isn't made right to start with. If you have to prime off the press you are losing the speed advantage the progressive press was intended to provide.
I have owned both the Lee Loadmaster and the Lee Pro 1000. After 6 months of tinkering, reading about corrective measures, and buying new parts, the longest run I had without a breakdown was 450 rounds. I ran out of patience with them at that point.
I spent all that time because I like the Lee products I used previously and use now and wanted to give them a good, honest chance. No go.
I may, at some point, try a Dillon but for now, my Lee Classic Cast Turret fulfills my needs. It has 4 stations which fit my style of loading and I can prime on the press without problems. I can't begin to say how many 10s of thousand of rounds I have loaded on this press. I load 5 different handgun cartridges and 4(currently) different rifle cartridges on it. It just works.
Caliber changes are easy since I leave the turrets set up.
I am almost to the place that I need more capacity for some of the pistol cartridges but just can't quite justify the expense of a Dillon yet.