Happy Days!! New shop found locally.

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No great benefit to this for the rest of TFL, but for those who know my situation , you'll probably appreciate the reason for my excitement. There is a shop locally that I've just discovered (online, but with the outlet in my town) that stocks a very respectable array of reloading products and they are 90% Lee. This means affordable!

IMO, Lee represents the best bang for the money around my way. A 3-die set for .223 (my next most likely reloading endeavour) costs 60% of a 2-die Lyman set from elsewhere.

Some may say that Lyman is better, but with the money saved I can get primer shell-holders for .223 and .308, case length gauges and a couple of other things.

Yep,... that was a good find. I'm going shopping next week as have about 900 .223 cases to resize!! :D
 
That's awesome- I'm glad to hear things just got a whole lot easier for you!
I may have mentioned it before, but for me, the Lee die rings just don't trip my trigger at all. If your new shop does (or can) ask them if they can also stock RCBS replacement lock rings which are thicker, made of steel, and have a set screw.

The Lee rings have a rubber )-ring on the bottom that I guess you torque down to where metal meets metal. But when you remove the die, the aluminum ring is free to turn and throw off your adjustments. I guess one could loc-tite the Lee rings in place- but I like the familiarity of the feel of metal-to-metal tightness when screwing down the dies.
 
True about the lock rings, but so far I have only really needed to screw the dies down to the shell-holder (with the ram up all the way) and the lock ring just then serves as a means of avoiding the die from budging during normal press operation. I've not found it too bothersome.

Vladamir is on his way....
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Let's hope not. The sooner the muscle-flexing subsides the better. If it goes beyond that, I fear few corners of the world will not live to regret it.

Snowballs become avalanches very quickly.
 
hat stocks a very respectable array of reloading products and they are 90% Lee. This means affordable!
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You are fortunate. It's not even that common over here in the gun loving United State, for gun retailers to also carry reloading equipment and supplies. At least "in my neck of the woods".
 
lee represents the same thing over here. they are generally about half the cost of other dies, or less, and casting equipment prices are just shockingly low
 
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just remember james, the more you spend the more you save!

maybe it's time to save you some valuable time also and upgrade to the classic turret? you will enjoy loading 223 for that ar of yours on a factor of 100. with 900+ cases to load on a single stage you may very well save your sanity along the way!
 
just remember james, the more you spend the more you save!
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That hasn't happened yet. Hey! Perhaps I'm just not spending enough!!

maybe it's time to save you some valuable time also and upgrade to the classic turret?
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I actually have the classic. You'll remember my numerous metering issues with the Auto-disk and VV powders? Those problems still exist with the PPM, but to a lesser degree. Either way I always have to finish off with a trickler.

All that means that I end up charging the cases first then seating the bullets. I also decap and resize in one go.

So my turret ending up being converted to single stage. On top of that I now mainly reload with a hand-press in the living room!!
 
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