
DeanC wrote:$33.98
DeanC wrote:$33.98
Pat Cannon wrote:DeanC wrote:$33.98
I only learned about the Lee Loader this year myself. I had been thinking (being the cheapest guy in the world), "Why do I need a fancy press? Couldn't you just knock a bullet in with a mallet or something?" And sure enough, Lee thought of it already!
I even ordered one. Since I am the cheapest guy in the world, I ordered it from Factory Sales in Wisconsin, who claimed to have it in stock. But when you order, they say 'please allow 3 to 4 weeks for delivery'. A week or two later, I read somebody on another forum saying their order from FS took 7 weeks. After six weeks I emailed FS: "Please tell me my order is coming soon, or refund my money." They refunded my money.
By then I actually had a little money saved up, and I was thinking that "minutes per round" instead of "rounds per minute" might get intolerably tedious, even for me, the cheapest guy in the world, once steel-shoot & IDPA season started, so I ordered an actual reloading press kit from Midway:
Lee 4 Hole Turret Press with Auto Index Deluxe Kit $99.99 (I see it's ten bucks more now.)
Lee Deluxe Handgun 4-Die Set 38 Special, 357 Magnum $34.49
(You will note the word 'Deluxe' appears in both items, so clearly I am making no compromises in quality while keeping economy in mind.)
In the meanwhile I got 1000 CCI small pistol primers at Gunstop for $29.88.
I ordered 1000 158gr .357 RN lead hard cast bullets from Dardas Cast Bullets for $64.75.
Back at Gunstop I bought $8.00 worth of corn cob tumbling media for Strad, who kindly polished up about 2000 rounds of my brass I've saved up over the last year or two. (Thanks, Strad!)
On that same trip I bought the Lyman 49th Edition Reloading Handbook, which had been recommended to me by a few people, for about $25.
So we're at about $263. I don't remember the shipping charge on the Midway order, let's say it was $10, and I still need a pound or so of powder for maybe $25, then I think I'm ready to get started for, let's call it: $300 for my first thousand rounds. That's $15 a box -- including buying the whole kit! Wow, can that be right? Why didn't I do this years ago? I feel I should check my math again, but for now, that's what I think I'm spending.
Now if this darn stuff will just show up!!
John S. wrote:Thanks, going to check the 4 holer out! Me and some shipmates had one in Tijuana once!![]()
J/K
Pat Cannon wrote:John S. wrote:Thanks, going to check the 4 holer out! Me and some shipmates had one in Tijuana once!![]()
J/K
Now that's a thread drift!
What happens in the basement stays in the basement.
Rem700 wrote:Why cant a progressive press be used like a single stage press useing one station at a time?
Pinnacle wrote:Rem700 wrote:Why cant a progressive press be used like a single stage press useing one station at a time?
That is a lot like kissing your sister isnt it?
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