What's Your Favorite Reloading Press To Use?

[DonMountain]

I see similar questions to this and always wondered what folks' favorite reloading press was to use? It could be any press type tool used for some stage of reloading some sort of ammo. Including rifle, pistol, shotgun ammo, or forming some part of the ammo like a lead boolet lubricator or a hand press like a Lyman 310 tool.

Mine is an old shotshell reloading press, a Pacific Model 260 from about 1966, set up for 12 gauge trap loads. It produces very good reloads and operates very smoothly for me. And is easy to operate without making mistakes.

How about you?

[seagiant]

Hi,
Here's a Bair like the 260 that I refurbed and made custom shot/powder hoppers.

The problem with this model (to me) is they are to "busy" meaning you are all over the loader for the different stages!

This was rectified with the Pacific 266 as you start on the left and work right for each up coming stage!

They are admittedly nice loaders and make a VERY nice shell!

[shoot-n-lead]

RL550B...by a longshot, even though I have had and used many different presses.

[IllinoisCoyoteHunter]

Star Universals.

[M-Tecs]

Dillon RL 1050.

[jmort]

Classic Turret

[trails4u]

I'm with jmort...... I just keep going back to it. It does everything I need....it's small, doesn't eat up my bench, and it produces good, consistent cartridges...rifle or pistol. Just can't get away from it...

[Boarhog]

Lyman All American turret, and rockchucker JR. 2.

[seagiant]

Hi,
Ha! Ha! Gotta love CAST STEEL!

[jmorris]

This one.

[jmorris]

Even though I can beat it by hand it is still less work.

[Mike Kerr]

Dillon 550BB by far. Fast enough with reasonable effort. Precise enough with minimal effort. Simple enough for the average reloader to utilize. Versatile beyond market competition.

[rbuck351]

The Lyman AA with the 550b a close second.

[StuBach]

Love the Dillon 650XL. Easy to use, tons of option, smooth operation, reliable, has powder cop to make sure my bullseye doesn't double dose.



Dillon 550b is a close second but missing the powder cop.

[Vann]

Mec Sizemaster

[dudel]

Easy. 550b, with the RockChucker a close second. Had a Cast Turret; but it didn't do it for me. Best thing about my CT, is that I didn't lose much on the resale.

[bandsmoyer]

Mec sizemaster

[Wayne Smith]

Right now it's a tossup between my TrueLine Jr and my Bair Brown Bair. For a single stage it's my Hollywood short Sr. Yes, I'm retro.

[Paul_R]

It really depends on what I'm doing but in general I'd have to say my Redding Big Boss II. Simple, smooth, super heavy duty, and has lots of room for my big fat hands.

[OS OK]

Pleasure = Lyman T-MagII….
Production = LNL….
Precision = Rockchucker.