I've been curious about that press.
I don't really need another, but, for some reason, the All American grabbed my attention.
I want to get my hands on one, in person, though.
Sevens said:
Unless you only load two calibers and will only EVER load those two and will never add any more, I see absolutely no rational reason why anyone would choose this rig over a Lee Classic Turret.
May I offer my opinion and rationale?
I know this has been discussed further, since this initial post, but I wanted to go back to the original question.
For me, it's very simple: I hate Lee single-stage presses. I hate Lee turrets even more. I have mixed feelings about Lee progressives. (It's not all hate.)
And...
Some people don't need to swap all the time.
I've had 6x45mm dies in my Redding T-7 turret for ... five(?) years now. (Sizer, seater.)
I've had my .475 Tremor dies in the turret for three and a half years. (Sizer, seater.)
That leaves three holes for the flavor of the week.
The flavor of the week, however, has been .480 Ruger for the last 10
months, or so. (Sizer, expander, seater.)
When I need to crimp 6x45mm (rare, separate die), need to expand .475 Tremor (rare), or need to do anything else that requires another die and I don't want to mess with the turret, I just screw the die in the Rock Chucker. Very rarely, I might have something set up in the Rock Chucker that I don't want to mess with. In that case, I use the Pacific C-press on the end of the bench.
Worst case, if everything else has a die in it that I don't want to remove, I can grab the Lee hand press out of my die storage area and run that. -- I have never had to do such. (A positive Lee reference from me. Mark your calendars.
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Not long ago, I also had a Lyman T-Mag II turret press on the bench. But I never needed the extra capacity, and very, very rarely used it. So, I sold it.
(I also, for some reason, really didn't like that press. I don't know why. But the new owner loves it.)
I have very few cartridges that have a single, designated load that is the 'go-to' and gets reloaded regularly. More often than not, I'm loading something different each time I grab the dies for a given cartridge - they may be established loads, or even the 'go-to' load - but different than what the dies did the last time. As such, there isn't much point in having everything pre-set in their own turrets.
The only notable exceptions to the above are .475 Tremor and 6x45mm. I've been running the same bullets at the same COAL for quite some time now. The 6x45mm is a long-term resident due to the volume of fire. The .475 Tremor, because it's a bit of a beast for developing loads. (It took me three years to get a load worked up for just one bullet.)
9mm could also be a contender, but I loaded thousands of rounds of my 'standard load' just before I sold my Dillon 550B. So I'm good there ... for
quite some time.
And the .480 Ruger is only a temporary resident of the turret, because it gets the .475 Tremor's 'sloppy seconds' (bullets that won't work there) and I've been establishing various loads for future use.
Some people say I'm wasting my life, one antiquated die change at a time, but I'm okay with that.