Originally Posted by
1hole
I've had a Lee hand press for 15-20 years, thought it would be useful for work at the range. It works fine but it's NOT a pleasure to use so I reload at home, not the range. Doubt I've loaded more than maybe 50 rounds with it.
On the other hand, and for the same low price, I have two hard mounted Lee small "Reloader" presses that are dedicated to de- and re-capping with a Universal Decap Die and (Lee) Auto-prime II; absolutely love that system! (If I had a few more free inches on my loading bench I'd have three of the tiny presses; the decaper and one for Large and one for Small primers.)
What I'm saying is we should buy our own reloading tools for their intended purposes. IMHO, Randy's excellent hand press is well suited to off-bench reloading but Lee's hand press is not. And having two or three of Randy's presses set up just to handle my primers would be foolish.