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Question for the reloading crowd

I have a Lee Progressive for my 357mag and has been all I loaded on it...I never did small batches except for test setting.
I always waited until I had a few hundred cases to fill`.
 
Skunkworkx said:
I have a Lee Progressive for my 357mag and has been all I loaded on it...I never did small batches except for test setting.
I always waited until I had a few hundred cases to fill`.
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Pistol reloading on a single stage is a drag. If you’re doing very much of it a progressive is the way to go.
 
brydan said:
Pistol reloading on a single stage is a drag. If you’re doing very much of it a progressive is the way to go.
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Yeah I think I’ll continue reloading for anything I’m making more than 20 or 30 rounds at a time, on my progressive just for that reason.

I’ll say though, while I am still relatively new to reloading, I think the learning curve was steepened a bit for me, by starting out on a progressive. I am glad I went ahead and bought a single stage. And surprisingly, the Frankford Arsenal F1 seems to be a great press, especially for only $100. I did put the lock-n-load bushing kit in, which I think makes it much easier to set up and use.


Semper Fi,
Mike
 
What calibers are you currently reloading so I can assist if you have any questions.
ShooterMike said:
Yeah I think I’ll continue reloading for anything I’m making more than 20 or 30 rounds at a time, on my progressive just for that reason.

I’ll say though, while I am still relatively new to reloading, I think the learning curve was steepened a bit for me, by starting out on a progressive. I am glad I went ahead and bought a single stage. And surprisingly, the Frankford Arsenal F1 seems to be a great press, especially for only $100. I did put the lock-n-load bushing kit in, which I think makes it much easier to set up and use.


Semper Fi,
Mike
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As mentioned above, you have a great single stage press already. It is always best to start and do everything on a single stage because slow and steady wins the race and also wins in the safety department. No knife hand for you. Once you get the "feel" of it and get yours dies dialed in for each round and you start to feel confident, look at something like the Dillon for your pistol rounds and your Marine medicine and the 300aac. You can really crank them out and they aren't precision rounds anyways. Then you still use the single stage for your more accurate formulas in your long gun/hunting rifles.

Sign up on guidefitter.com asafp.
 
Zero One Actual said:
As mentioned above, you have a great single stage press already. It is always best to start and do everything on a single stage because slow and steady wins the race and also wins in the safety department. No knife hand for you. Once you get the "feel" of it and get yours dies dialed in for each round and you start to feel confident, look at something like the Dillon for your pistol rounds and your Marine medicine and the 300aac. You can really crank them out and they aren't precision rounds anyways. Then you still use the single stage for your more accurate formulas in your long gun/hunting rifles.

Sign up on guidefitter.com asafp.
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Thanks again. Yeah I’m on Guidefitter. Great discounts there! At this point I think I’m doing okay with the Dillon XL750 for stuff that I shoot a lot rounds. I have two 300 blackouts- one of which is a bolt gun I shoot suppressed subsonic a through for night hunting on a kill permit. I have a second set of die’s setup on a seperate tool head for those rounds, but I think I’ll switch those out for use on the single stage press in hopes to make them just a little more consistent.


Semper Fi,
Mike
 
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