Originally Posted by
No Blue
I must be living right or something; I've been loading cast lead bullets in 9mm, 10mm, 38/357, 45, 30 Carbine, 300 BLK, and a few others with just the standard Lee dies and NEVER had any of the issues all of you are always whining about.
I follow the instructions, get a little belling on the case mouth, bullet installs with no shaving, and then the belling is crimped away in the next station.
Easy, peasy.
Maybe some review of technique is in order?
And I'm doing this a on Lee Loadmaster, the most reviled press in history!
That was another surprise; bought the LM in '95. Didn't find any reloading forums until '05. Find endless whining about the LM! How they can't prime on it. If I have the shell plate and dies, that's the only thing I WILL prime on; probably 3 or 4 times faster than hand priming.
I'd love to be observing a lot of you...see what you're doing and ask you why???
Why aren't you following the instructions?
Why don't you have any measuring tools?
And know how and where to use them?
Why no feedback loop? As you screw the die down, the belling gets larger; don't want it that big? Turn it the other way!
I can't believe the number of times I've seen this posted....It's too big, they keep cranking it down, it gets bigger and then they blame that damn Lee stuff! LOL
Should of bought the expensive green, blue, orange, or other red stuff; after all "you get what you pay for", or "buy once, cry once". LOL
When Gaston Glock was first selling his pistol, he wanted to undercut all the metal guns pricing by a considerable amount; he wanted to capture the market. As inexpensively as he could mold a plastic frame, compared to machining a metal one, he easily could.
But instead of a $250 MSRP, they were closer to $500. Reason?
His marketing weasels knew the "you get what you pay for" clowns, and the "buy once, cry once" morons, would instantly trash it at that price. Since those clowns and morons only know how to equate price with quality; nothing else computes with them.
That Glock came up with a manufacturing technique that made a better product at 20% of the cost of what went before, the clowns and morons couldn't figure it out.
We're all paying thru the nose for equipment and most of everything else we buy because of this.
Rant off. LOL