Loving turret press . . .

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Prof Young

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So have done about 1000 rounds in the Lee Turret Press with the auto powder drum and am liking it a lot. I've gotten over the trouble I initially had with priming on the down stroke. I do that pretty well now. I still deprime on my single stage press as it collects the spent primers in the tube below. Need to figure out a way to do that with my turret and then will do it all on turret. Yeah I know you still have to pull the lever as many times but not having to take the case in and out of the case holder for each step saves a great deal of time. I can't think of a time before now when I had so many 9mm on the shel in the ammo closet.

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Prof Young
 
Yup, the turret works very well. I load .38, .357, .41, 7.62x39, and .223 on my turret, the only thing I still load on my Loadmaster is 9mm. The only thing I do still load on my single stage Lyman Crusher is 6.5 Creedmoor for longer range accuracy. I don't mind the slower rate and extra handle pulling, I just feel like I have better control over the ammo quality with the turret press and since all the calibers I load are not shot at nearly the volume I shoot 9mm at it works fine.
 
just guessing he has the newer classic turret and you have the older model.

I had the older model till I went for a Hornady LNL ap progressive.

made many thousand of rounds on my lee 4 hole turret press. then again I sized and deprimed/reprimed my cases seperately. believe lee precision has a easy priming addon for the older turret press which makes priming easier
 
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In reality the go all over the floor.
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Prof Young, do you have the lever primer cup in the ram????? I ask because that is a reason the primers could be going everywhere
 
Prof Young what you have is the Value Turret which is also what I have only mine is an old 3 hole model.

Now what I did is make a cutout under the press into the bench top. It is as wide as the inside of the press and 1.5" deep. I then mounted the press as it would normally be only located so the drop holes for the primers are over the cutout. Primers no drop thru into a waste can.
Use this same setup with my Lee Pro 1000 press.
 
The Lee Classic Cast turret has the tube that collects the primers.

I also am a fan of turret presses. I use a Lyman TMag II. In my mind it is a nice compromise between a single stage and a progressive.
 
Told you that you would like it.
Mine does same with primers.
I drilled 2 holes in bench underneath, and made/fastened a wire bracket that holds a plastic container underneath. Just dump container out into trash.
Easy peasy mac and cheesy..
 
Been planning to . . .

Yeah I've been planning to make a hole in the bench under the press to let the primers fall through. I throw the spent primers in the junk brass bucket . . . they are brass aren' they?

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Prof Young
 
Yeah, I had the bright idea of throwing my spent primers in with the walnut media in my vibratory tumbler. My thought was that the mixture would be a bit more aggressive.....right? After the first time screening the little devils out of the brass and having them clogging the screen; they went out into the lawn in a wide fan-shaped pattern.

BZimm :mad:
 
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