First Reloading Press = RCBS JR-3. Before that, various hand tools.
Chev. William
First Reloading Press = RCBS JR-3. Before that, various hand tools.
Chev. William
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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Leo
People never lie so much as after a hunt,during a war,or before an election.
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Wamadet to load 357 mag .still use it today 35 years later.
I got a Lyman Spartan about 1972. It still works as good as it did when it was new.
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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.
MEC
About 1988, Lee hand press.
At times I wish I still had it.
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.
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 !
Gary
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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.
Ron
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.
Fred
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. - William S. Burroughs.
RCBS Rockchucker in 1971 for $39.95 including a set of dies. Still have and use it.
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.
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.
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.
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 |