New LEE Ultimate Turret Press

[deces]

New press utilizing the base from the Pro 6000, 5 breech-lock compatible stations.

[onelight]

Nice thanks for posting the pic.

[Soundguy]

Interesting I kind of really never saw the need for a breach lock inside a turret press since you pretty much just put the dies in the turret but I guess this keeps you from buying new turrets you just buy a lot more breach locks I don't know that that's a good Financial deal but whatever looks like a nice press five stations is nice.

[jdgabbard]

Would totally have upgraded to one had I not started buying a bunch of 4-hole plates, and storage racks for them from inline manufacturing the last few months. Been working on getting a plate and powder dispenser for every caliber I reload for. As it sits right now, I'm up to eight, and need to put two more together...

That said, I'm sure those 5-hole plates would probably be more expensive anyways....

[deces]

I'm not really sure what all I'm looking at on the press. I see that it has a indexing pin, a tool caddy, for the primer arm, safety primes, allen wrench and die wrench. It might have an auto case kicker built into the ram.
I imagine the price from Titian will be about $250.

[onelight]

I wonder if they will use the turrets from the loadmaster, if so there may be a lot of used turrets available.
There are only a couple of cartridges I load that I would use another station on and don't think I would want to add another lever pull to the other eight or 9 I load on the 4 hole turret .
But that looks like a nice addition to Lee's line for those that need that 5th station .
I hope it works as nice as the 4 hole

[deces]

I find this pretty neat, they are offering different tool heads for this press.

[Rockindaddy]

Keep us all up to date on how that new press works. I still have a couple of Lee Loadmaster progressive presses that do not prime worth a darn! Lee should have sent their Loadmaster presses to China. The Chinese would be a third world country by now as the Loadmaster Presses would have confounded them!!!!

[Leadmad]

Classic Cast 4 hole turret the first press I bought, have another 3 press`s now but use the classic cast almost every day for a variety of cal`s and purposes. not sure how much extra use that 5th hole would get a use for in a turret press tho

[Tall]

not sure how much extra use that 5th hole would get a use for in a turret press tho

For a loaded case indicator. I need one!

[Soundguy]

Classic Cast 4 hole turret the first press I bought, have another 3 press`s now but use the classic cast almost every day for a variety of cal`s and purposes. not sure how much extra use that 5th hole would get a use for in a turret press tho

I live the 4 holes. I have a legit 4 hole and a 3 hole converted to 4.

[jetinteriorguy]

If this press turns out to be as reliable as the Classic Cast Turret I can see it being quite useful. Six stations would be nice. One to size/decap/prime, two to expand/powder drop, three to powder check, four to bullet drop, five to seat, and six to crimp. This is in regards to loading pistol ammo. But I’m more than happy sticking with the Classic.

[onelight]

Thanks deces for posting those pictures , to be able to convert from 4 to six stations and still auto index would be a very handy feature .

[deces]

Fully loaded configuration.

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[YoungGun88]

[jetinteriorguy]

Interesting that it comes with a loaded round ejector already part of it. This gets more interesting all the time.

[3006mv]

Impressive and here I just ordered the six pack pro 9 mm kit. Also another new Lee item is M style expansion plugs for their powder through expansion dies!


https://leeprecision.com/ultimate-turret-press-overview

[trixter]

My new Ultimate turret press is here and setup was straight forward. I got the 6 hole turret filled up: 1-deprime and size, upstroke-prime, 2-powder and flare mouth (with the new 'M' style plug), 3-RCBS powder check die, 4-Lee bullet feeder. 5-bullet seater, 6-crimp. I've loaded about 800 rounds of 9mm with 2 styles of bullets (TL 356-124-2R and 358-105-SWC, powdercoated and sized to .356) and everything that came in the box has performed reliably. (good job Lee!!) Because the priming system is manual, i've not had one problem with it but I had to train my right hand to get the motion correct. Changing the turret is a little different, but once you do it it is really easy.
I will be keeping my Classic Cast Turret press for other calibers, but so far the Ultimate is, for me, a great deal.

[seagiant]

Hi,
Is it as "clunky" or loose, as the original, or...

Did they tighten/smooth it up???