Lee Handloading Press Accuracy

[sawacs]

Sometimes I don't mind preping brass out in the garage but other times I prefer sitting indoors while preping brass. Recently, I acquired one of the Lee Handloading presses and it has worked flawlessly for 45 acp loading and other pistol rounds.

I would like to use it to resize 260, 6.5-284, 30-06, 222, 243, 6.8 SPC etc.... Is this press accurate enough to perform the sizing on rifle brass when accuracy is a huge concern? Normally, I use a single stage RCBS rock chucker for loading rifle rounds and the last step in the loading process is with a 21st Century arbor press using LE Wilson bullet seating dies. Basically, I sit down at the kitchen table to charge the cases and seat the bullet.

I could always give it a try and see what kind of results I get from the press but I thought I would ask others first.

Thanks,

Shawn

 

[Ledd Slinger]

.....I could always give it a try and see what kind of results I get from the press...

Bingo! Winna Winna! That is the correct answer!

No point in asking when you already have the press, dies, and brass you want to try.

 

[amlevin]

I regularly use a Lee Hand Press for loading my .223 and .308 "Precision" rounds. The press does great. I do of course use better dies. Redding Competition dies locked into Lee Breech Lock bushings do the actual work on the case/bullet/cartridge. The "press" merely pushes the case into the dies that control the quality of the finished cartridge.

 

[jlow]

This has been my experience.

 

[sawacs]

Thank you all for the replies and putting my mind at ease. I would rather hear about success vs failures in using the Lee Handloader as this would save me from messing brass up. 99% of the brass I use is Lapua and that stuff can be pricey

Cheers,

Shawn

 

[Ledd Slinger]

Thank you all for the replies and putting my mind at ease. I would rather hear about success vs failures in using the Lee Handloader as this would save me from messing brass up. 99% of the brass I use is Lapua and that stuff can be pricey

Cheers,

Shawn

You can mess it up, but all you do is re-size it in your RC again and it back to normal