Ponsness Warren 375C.....best single stage shot shell reloading press made. It's always a pleasure using high quality tools. For metallic, I suppose my old Dillon 450 manual everything. Very versatile unit. Much prefer it to a 550.
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Ponsness Warren 375C.....best single stage shot shell reloading press made. It's always a pleasure using high quality tools. For metallic, I suppose my old Dillon 450 manual everything. Very versatile unit. Much prefer it to a 550.
Progressive: Dillon 650
Single Stage: Forster Co-Ax
Dillon 550b
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Dillon 1050 or Hornady L-N-L AP or Forster Co-Ax.
Turret press: Lee classic Cast iron base turret
single stage: Redding Ultramag (Lee classic cast is a close second)
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This is a hard question to answer.
I have only one progressive a 450/550. It has been with me since the mid 80s. I have just about every shellplate for it. It still kicks ammo out with reliability and boredom. Great machine.
I have a turret press now and another one coming this year - both Hollywoods. The only turret press I know of that will do 50 BMG, swage jacketed bullets, etc. The Hoolywood Senior is an awesome 8 station press. I now use it in the RV. The other one coming is a 12 station Universal III. Both Hollywood's are cast steel not iron presses. The fit and finish as well as the workmanship is second to none. A lost art of building a quality reloading tool from days gone by. Nothing of current manufacture has appealed to me.
I have a cast steel single stage press - CH4D Champion. This is my goto press for heavy case forming, swaging, etc. My lightweight press is the cast iron Redding Ultramag with LNL bushing in it. I also own a COAX for load development it is the original quick change die press. My last press is a Summit with Arbor press conversion in it for Wilson dies.
I couldn't pick from any of these. They have all earned a place on the bench.
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Single stage: Rock Chucker - for development and small batches
Progressive: Dillon 550b, when I need more than a handful, but still have the control I like.
Dillon RL-300 - grand daddy to the 550B
or
Bonana Co-Ax
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Huntington W hand press
That's as close as one as I get.
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My favorite?
Easy answer.
My favorite is the RCBS JR that my daddy bought for me as a Christmas present just about 45 years ago.
Still smooth and tight like the day it was new, still loads straight accurate ammo after many tens (Hundreds?) of thousands of rounds.
I just wish all of my other tools worked so well for so long.
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The press that gets used the most is my 550B. The kewlest press I own that I can't use enough is my Ponsness-Warren Metallic-II.
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Hi,
Yep the PW Met II is a neat press!!!
Here's mine in early Bronze!
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SDB; bought it new for $129.95 (you can tell how long ago that was) and have been happy with it.
do have a single stage press for 45-70s
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Got to be my 40+ year old RCBS RC. It is still as smooth as silk and the ram as tight as a drum. Yes I've probably loaded thousands of rounds on it from 12 gauge shotshells to 22 Hornet and everything in between.
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As much as I like the 550B, the RC3 and the PW 800B, the favorite is still the PW 375C due to versatility and convenience of converting between gauges.
rock chucker/ lee classic turret
For me it's my RCBS Pro 2000. Had it since 2000 and have loaded, well at this point I don't know how many thousands of rounds. It is a great press.
Originally Posted by Artful
Hi,
Yep, best loader Mike Dillon ever made (and lost money on!)
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” -Samuel Adams
Janet Reno, killed more children at Waco, with Bill Clinton's permission, than Adam Lanza killed, at Sandy Hook.
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Jerry
I'll be needing that for squirrels and such.....
Actually mine is not actually a Pacific 260 either. Its also the Bair version of it. But I never found out what they called it when it was for sale since I bought mine used from a guy that had traded up to a Hornady 366. But he wanted $250 for that 366 and I only had $50 in my pocket. So I took the old Bair press. And I am still using it after all these years!
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