Thread: Lee or RCBS?
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Old December 21, 2012, 02:01 AM   #40
A pause for the COZ
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You know.. I have and use LEE, Hornady, RCBS and Lyman presses.
There is not one that is perfect at every thing. Each one has features I absolutely love about it and features that I hate.

I love how Hornady auto advances and the fact it rotates clock wise.
I hate how it retains the cases.

I love how the RCBS retains cases but the auto index is jerky to use with full cases.

I love the smooth action of my Rock chucker, but hate the spent primer collection and on press priming. The working area is too small. Can only be used right handed.

I love how my LEE classic cast deals with spent primers and the on press priming. Love the ambidextrous handle settings. Large work area.
But its not near as smooth as my Rock chucker.

Lee turrets press gets lots of med volume work. Love the turret/ Auto indexing. Hate the flex in the turret.

Lyman turret is more robust but not near as easy to use.

All that being said. If I could only have one press. (Perish the thought)

It would be the LEE Classic cast turret press.
It has the best mix of value/ performance/ features of any thing out there.
2nd place is not even on the same page.

I have not tried a Dillon. If I did it would be the 650. Probably for the same reason I havent tried Coke.
Afraid if I did I would like it. Then where would I be? hooked and strung out.

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