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    First Reloading Press = RCBS JR-3. Before that, various hand tools.
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    First press was RCBS Jr in mid 60`s.Loaded tons of 38 spl,45acp,7x57,30-06.At one time,I was going through appx 800 to 1000 rds a week.Right arm looked like Popeyes,and left looked like Olive Oyls
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    Wamadet to load 357 mag .still use it today 35 years later.

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    I got a Lyman Spartan about 1972. It still works as good as it did when it was new.
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    First reloading press...

    Herters Model 3, early 60's. Loaded quite a few thousand rounds on that old girl.

    Just gave it away last week to a young fellow who hopes to start reloading.

    Hope he appreciates it.

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    About 1988, Lee hand press.

    At times I wish I still had it.

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    Lee C press. About $10.00.

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    I started with a Lee hand loader and a plastic mallet. My first press was a Lyman Spar Turret....I still have it and it still works just fine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bookworm View Post
    About 1988, Lee hand press.

    At times I wish I still had it.
    They are easy to get....still made , $40.00 new and saw used one on ebay for $18.00 .
    I bought one , found it so handy I bought another.....I use them all the time inside the house or at the office even at the shooting range working up different loads . Get another , they are handy !
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    I went from the Lee whack em version for .357, 9mm and 6mm Rem back in the 70s. Graduated to a Lee C press and then a Lee Turret for the next 20 years. Went Dillon blue in the late 90s, but still have a Lee Classic and the old C press for the occasional single stage duties.


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    Lyman 310 tool for 22-250 Rem (1969), RCBS Rockchucker (1970).. Still have and use them.

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    First Press? RCBS Rock Chucker, tink I still have it too
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    Used Hollywood Senior in 1963, which I still have and use. It's since been joined by several other presses, both single stage and progressive.

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    RCBS Rockchucker in 1971 for $39.95 including a set of dies. Still have and use it.

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    Lyman Sparta "C" press. Bought in early '70's and still use it today.
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    Dillon 550b mid 90's 45 acp, 9 mm, 38/357, 380 acp, few years later added 357 sig.
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    first press was a Redding "C" press still around someplace it has to be 53 years old now as I got it in '64 when you could drive up to the Redding plant and walk into a small room they had for retail sales
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    rcbs big max, love it will not consider replacing it, had it for years. it will either size or crush it no effort required.

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    1966 Texan DP-II with dies to load both 12 and 20 ga.
    1974 RCBS Rockchucker Jr
    I still have both, but will be giving the Rockchucker Jr to one of my sons or a nephew as I bought a Rockchucker Supreme last summer. Sure has a lot more mechanical advantage.

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    My first press was a Lee hand press that loaded many hundreds of 3006 rounds until I broke it by leaning on it against the tailgate of my friend's truck.

    We were reloading on a makeshift range on his hunting lease and the brass had become work hardened to the extent where even neck sizing needed serious effort.

    Admittedly these were the days before I discovered Imperial case wax...

    I replaced it with a RCBS Rockchucker II bought from a fellow British member of AccurateReloading who was only selling it as he was emigrating to Canada. Once bitten, twice smitten as they say as it became my only press for a decade. I have recently bought another Lee hand press for messing about with OAL at the firing point as well as a couple of second hand Lee turret presses for things like decapping but the Rockchucker is a quality piece of kit and if I had my time again the thing I would have gone for straight off the bat.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check