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Just replace your Lee rings with any locking ring, or buy other dies. Upgrading your dies from Lee when you buy them is so DArned. Cheap in the first place. Does fifteen or twenty dollars mean that much?

Take a 25x loupe, and compare your Lee components with any other brand. Your decision.
 
I only load rifle I will be using them in a rcbs rockchucker. So I take it I will have to set them up everytime I put them in the press.
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Yes, but it's easy to set them up by just following the directions for full length resizing. If you are loading for a semi auto, you'll want to full length resize every time for reliability anyways. If you are trying to bump size (partial full length resizing) to fit your reloads to your chamber, an upgraded locking ring is probably a good investment to make setup go faster for that.

Jimro
 
I have only used RCBS and Lee dies. The lee O rings take some getting used to, just like anything else, but once you figure out the system it works quite well. In a few calibers I have both RCBS and Lee dies, cannot tell any difference in the finished product.

That said, I would buy Lyman or Redding if I found a good price on them; almost all of my dies I have purchased used.

David
 
I have two Lee turret presses. I reload both rifle and handgun ammunition on both. All the rifle dies are already preset on the turrets. All the handgun dies are preset on 4 hole turrets with the powder dispenser which is also preset to the load recipe I typically use. I have the auto prime set up on the press for handgun rounds.

There are seldom any adjustments on my part unless I change the reload recipe to a different bullet and/or powder. I just keep it simple, and it works for me. Not the cheapest way to go. It does provide me with more time reloading and less time adjusting. I do check the powder drop on a scale every fifty rounds are so.
 
You can replace lock rings. I prefer the Hornady lock rings myself. Set it once and it is set each time you use any die set.

I like Lee dies for most applications except cast bullets, or match rounds, where I will tend to get Whidden or RCBS.

Regards,
Stubb
 
TMD #19
On my single stage press I just draw a line on top of the press with a sharpie and another line on the die body.
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Wish I would have thought of that! It would have saved me some time and aggravation.

Can't see any reason it wouldn't work just fine. Anybody got a discouraging word on this idea?
 
Wish I would have thought of that! It would have saved me some time and aggravation.

Can't see any reason it wouldn't work just fine. Anybody got a discouraging word on this idea?
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"Anybody got a discouraging word": Constructive, fair and objective?

If I had thought of that I would have included a plan, the plan would include a way to verify. In the thought process I would have thought: Why waste time with all the methods and techniques if I am going to verify the adjustment, then I would have thought going straight to verifying would eliminate all the wild guestimates.

F. Guffey
 
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