Lee App press for Corbin 224 Kit

[Sleeping Dog]

I was looking at starting swaging bullets. However, I have two presses. One is a turret press and unlikely to be a good choice. The other is the new APP press which can have the die can be on the top or the bottom. Thus, it is really good for resizing cast boolits (gravity is working with you).

Does anyone know if this style would work?

Thanks
Eric

[GARD72977]

It wont even swage one bullet before it breaks.......

[dverna]

Get yourself a used Rock Chucker or similar press.

[rancher1913]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if you cant afford a swagging press you will never be able to afford the dies or be able to do much swagging.

[fatelk]

Swagging is actually not expensive at all; anyone can do it.

Swaging, on the other hand, usually takes lots of expensive tools...


Sorry, just a minor pet peeve of mine. It seems like everyone wants to confuse "swage, swager, swaging" with "swag, swagger, swagging". They are two very, very different things!

[cwtebay]

Swagging is actually not expensive at all; anyone can do it.

Swaging, on the other hand, usually takes lots of expensive tools...


Sorry, just a minor pet peeve of mine. It seems like everyone wants to confuse "swage, swager, swaging" with "swag, swagger, swagging". They are two very, very different things!

Me two (to, too....)

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[Sleeping Dog]

Thanks.

That is what I figured, but I thought I'd ask. Trying to figure out if I can convince my wife that I really need a swaging press.

Eric

[rancher1913]

if your doing smaller type boolits, a heavy duty regular press will work but for the bigger stuff you need a really strong press.

[Darth-Vaj]

Swaging press all the way. Why settle for something that won’t work very well or will wear down sooner down the road? Save up and get a swaging press.

[GONRA]

GONRA sez gettin' into swaging is REAL pricy
unless you hava machine shop to make yer own tools & dies,
or can wait for years to happen upon a good used deal.

As suggested above, get a huge SWAGING PRESS to start.
Smaller presses will bust, screwup....
Good luck. Keep us posted.....

[Sleeping Dog]

Thanks for the suggestions.

The more that I've looked at things, the more it seems that it is a big, but important step in my shooting development.

I noticed that PT Sniper uses the basic Lee press with modifications, while Corbin has R dies and H/S dies that have different mounts. How critical do you think it is to have only one style of die mounts, or does everyone end up with running regular (7/8-14) and custom for the bigger presses?

[clodhopper]

The press BT uses is basic, no frills.
But it is the heaviest, strongest, most durable Lee offers.

Lee has offered over the years quite a few basic presses, some of them lightweight cast alloy.

The press you want is the classic cast. Made of iron.

I still find the handle linkage wanting, BT offers upgrades.

Used rockchuckers are not that hard to find either. There are some dirty old gems floating around. Look for old iron presses that has extra holes in the toggle linkage. Make sure it will accept a standard die thread. (Herters warning!)

My bench has one lee classic cast, one RCE walnut hill, two corbin CSPs and an old Redding. My dies are threaded 7/8-14 and some 5/8-24. I purchased most of my stuff used, made some, bought some.

Making bullets is much easier to me having multiple presses.

I start out sizing a few cores.
Then seat the cores.
Then point form.
If adjustments need made it's easy to do.
The poorly formed bullets from the set up stage get set aside for offhand practice,
and that's okay, I need a lot of offhand practice.

Make as many tools as you can, buy used presses.

[Sleeping Dog]

I went a head and bought a Rock Chucker. The other stuff I have is Lee, so having one heavy duty single stage is worth while. The dies from Corbin came in and I made about 50 x 224 cal from 22LR.

I'm still trying to figure everything out, but it is pretty cool. Now, I just need a bigger place to work (too many toys)

[Sleeping Dog]

Just wanted to give all of those who gave me advice as to how it work. Did a few trials and today I shot 40 rounds from my AR. They seemed to work quite well.

[fcvan]

I am glad to see you not only followed through but are also seeing success. I looked into swaging some time back but am doing well with cast for 223 and 308. I have also considered lathe turned copper projectiles. Cost of copper fluctuates wildly. Then I looked at swaging sintered copper/tin from %90 Copper powder/% 10 tin. Expensive as well. Then I sat down and cast a bunch of boolits, powder coated, made my own gas checks, and killed tin cans. Last crazy thought was the 3D printers that fuses bronze powder into shapes of your design. Sat back down and cast some more, saved a ton of money, killed more tin cans.

[Sleeping Dog]

The simple joys of life -- shooting cans

For 3D printers, I though that the typical ones have plastic with some bronze in it. Thus, you are really shooting with plastic. Might work? They do have printers that print with metal, but they are $$$$

[root]

I have a herders super U-3 it does the job.

Just bought a CH with all kinds of extra stuff on eBay for 220 shipped.

Keep her eyes open there are some deals out there if you are diligant.
But lee won't be a good choice as already mentioned.