Thinking about giving a Lee Progressive press another chance, wondering if anyone here owns one/has used it?
I've been following a Facebook group created just for Lee Pro 6000 users. It has been interesting reading about different "fixes" for it. For the most part, they have all been positive, but it seems that this press has similar problems as the other Lee presses - mostly related to primer handling.Thinking about giving a Lee Progressive press another chance, wondering if anyone here owns one/has used it?
Just sold my loadmaster, trying to decide if I should just save up for a 750These seem to be decent presses but in the short time they have been out lee has already redesigned/upgraded a couple parts and seem to be working on more. The highroad forum has a couple extremely in depth threads about it, one of their members is actually in contact with lee and is Guinea pigging some parts/upgrades for them.
From what I’ve seen online a couple things stand out to me as potential downsides. The videos I’ve seen of it running look as if the rotation is very abrupt, perhaps causing issues with slinging powder and bullets falling over, could be user error though. The other is while six stations are nice, they are so crowded together some accessories won’t physically fit. One guy had to send his double alpha powder checker back because it just wouldn’t fit.
It may be a good press but I’m out of the lee press business. I’ve had a pro 1000 and at one time 5 loadmasters. Every one of them had their own individual quirks. I’ve switched to hornady and am much happier. I still use lee dies though.
Hard to ever go wrong with a Dillion if you load large enough quantities. If for some reason you don’t like it there’s gonna be a line of people ready to buy it from you for dang near what you paid. I was on the fence between the 650 and the LNL and went with the LNL for the powder measure and the bushing system.Just sold my loadmaster, trying to decide if I should just save up for a 750
Love my lee turret though
Agreed. love the design but execution is lacking. I finally gave up on Lee and got a Dillon 650 and never looked back….if lee were to spend a little more on quality control and better materials, even if they had to raise there prices, they would dominate the marke
I was a Lee fan for 30 years but the quality has dropped markedly in the past 5 or so. I finally gave up and went blue.I don't think it's fair to compare Lee to the high- and middle-end presses. Their niche is exactly that- good designs with inexpensive parts. It's a gateway drug to higher end- or you can just keep smoking pot and never go to cocaine. I started with a 550- and still use it for volume, but I've added three Lee's to the collection (no, my bench isn't that big, but those Lee bench plates are great). So yeah, I'll still do the late night "it's blue, bitch!" , but most days I'm just hanging with the Lee gang.
Ford is blue. That’s why I reload with blue.There are people that have to drive a BMW because they think it is sooooo much better and there are people that just don't want to and may drive Ford/Chevy.
Yes, I could afford a different press other than Lee but Lee is what I started with several years ago. Yes, there is tinkering, I still bet every press out there has some tinkering.
Yes, I have had parts break. YES LEE sent free replacement parts.
For those that think Lee is such a bad press, I go against you. I have loaded several calibers and a tens of thousands on my Lee presses and can bout guarantee I am way ahead in the money game because I didn't have to spend thousands of dollars to get the job done. In the end, I have a created a piece of ammo that goes bang, just like I want it to, just like any other color press there is.
Lee is not a bad company. For those that don't have to drive the BMW, get the Ford/Chevy, in the end, you make it to the same place, at the range to go shooting.
(Edit, would never recommend the Lee shotshell press to anyone. It just wouldn't make a good crimp no matter what you did, stick with their presses for pistol/rifle)
I thought as you do until I started making mostly 9mm and wanted a dedicated press. I went with the Dillon 750 and I cranked out 1,000’s of trouble free rounds, Decided to crank out some 45 ACP and fired up the Lee ProMaster and I was so frustrated with stoppages and fiddling about I quit a few hundred rounds in opened up the laptop and ordered $800 worth of Dillon parts to load all my pistol calibers, BEST $800 I EVER SPENT! Sold that POS Lee and never looked back.There are people that have to drive a BMW because they think it is sooooo much better and there are people that just don't want to and may drive Ford/Chevy.
Yes, I could afford a different press other than Lee but Lee is what I started with several years ago. Yes, there is tinkering, I still bet every press out there has some tinkering.
Yes, I have had parts break. YES LEE sent free replacement parts.
For those that think Lee is such a bad press, I go against you. I have loaded several calibers and a tens of thousands on my Lee presses and can bout guarantee I am way ahead in the money game because I didn't have to spend thousands of dollars to get the job done. In the end, I have a created a piece of ammo that goes bang, just like I want it to, just like any other color press there is.
Lee is not a bad company. For those that don't have to drive the BMW, get the Ford/Chevy, in the end, you make it to the same place, at the range to go shooting.
(Edit, would never recommend the Lee shotshell press to anyone. It just wouldn't make a good crimp no matter what you did, stick with their presses for pistol/rifle)