Shynloco
You can lead a horse to water, but ........
Guys,
I know we regularly see posts from those who recommend a product and more so from those asking for a recommendation. And this time I find myself having to sound off on the Harrell Sportsman press that was recommended (and appearing in a recent Daily Bulletin) to me by Boyd Allen. Over the years, I've used or tried a variety of presses and I found this Harrell Sportsman is easily the smoothest and easiest press to operate. It's precision in makeup and the results of using, is remarkable in the consistency of the measurement of a resized casing and the concentricity after resizing. I know in a recent threads, many contributed and Boyd wrote about the inconsistent and greater variation in runout caused by some presses as opposed to others. In other words, when a fired casing comes out of the chamber of a rifle, it was partly the press we were using to resize a fired case and NOT the rifle chamber (which actually gives the best and purest concentricity to any casing) that was creating runout that didn't make us happy. Even though I was using Winchester .308 Range P/U brass (to test this new press) and using an RCBS Precision Mic to measure each of 20 casings, I've rarely experienced such a close and consistent shoulder measurement even with Lapua brass which might varying from between .001 - .003. Now that's what I call a "Precision" press that I'm extremely pleased with and happy I bought.
So thx to Harrel for building a very fine piece of Precision equipment and to Boyd Allen for recommending it. It wasn't cheap, but worth ever penny if accuracy is your thing.
Alex
P.S. For the past several years I'd been using an RCBS Rock Chucker and my primary being a Redding Big Boss press. Now the Harrell will become primary and the Big Boss secondary.
I know we regularly see posts from those who recommend a product and more so from those asking for a recommendation. And this time I find myself having to sound off on the Harrell Sportsman press that was recommended (and appearing in a recent Daily Bulletin) to me by Boyd Allen. Over the years, I've used or tried a variety of presses and I found this Harrell Sportsman is easily the smoothest and easiest press to operate. It's precision in makeup and the results of using, is remarkable in the consistency of the measurement of a resized casing and the concentricity after resizing. I know in a recent threads, many contributed and Boyd wrote about the inconsistent and greater variation in runout caused by some presses as opposed to others. In other words, when a fired casing comes out of the chamber of a rifle, it was partly the press we were using to resize a fired case and NOT the rifle chamber (which actually gives the best and purest concentricity to any casing) that was creating runout that didn't make us happy. Even though I was using Winchester .308 Range P/U brass (to test this new press) and using an RCBS Precision Mic to measure each of 20 casings, I've rarely experienced such a close and consistent shoulder measurement even with Lapua brass which might varying from between .001 - .003. Now that's what I call a "Precision" press that I'm extremely pleased with and happy I bought.
So thx to Harrel for building a very fine piece of Precision equipment and to Boyd Allen for recommending it. It wasn't cheap, but worth ever penny if accuracy is your thing.
Alex
P.S. For the past several years I'd been using an RCBS Rock Chucker and my primary being a Redding Big Boss press. Now the Harrell will become primary and the Big Boss secondary.
