New to your forum but a reloader for a long time . I am interested in buying a Turret press that will be dedicated to loading 22 Hornets .I am considering a Lyman for this application but and RCBS or Redding would be fine .My main concern is runout and alignment .Cost is not an issue but I don't want to buy more than I need . My main press is a Rock Chucker and it will get used for everything else .I load about 200 Hornets a month and I just don't want to set up every time I load . Your thoughts would be appreciated . I am also going to try to use a Lee disc powder measure for charging my hornets with a standard charge of AA1680 .

i'd forget the turret & buy a dillon

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Originally posted by butchloc:
i'd forget the turret & buy a dillon

I'd forget the dillon and get a turret. I have a lee turret press and i love it it makes quick work of loading (although not as quick as a dillon) but it cost 1/4 of what a dillon would run. i have the autodisk powder measure and the safety prime and i can load 150 rounds an hour and am constantly improving so i suggest you save your money and buy a turret.

I like my Redding T-7. Built like a tank and you can set up for 2 or 3 calibers at a time.

At 200 per month get the turret. If you were shooting 200 per week definatly get the Dillon.

As for runout, get a Redding T-7, use the Redding dies and forget about it. All the calibers I load .22-250, 6.5 swede, 7x57 and 8x57 have .0005" or less runout, I do nothing special, just load 'em. I quite measuring run out when it became apparent that the press was boringly repeatable.
Once you get to using a Redding turret, the Rock Chucker will become a dust collector. You can get different heads for the T7 and have all your dies set and ready to go. Just swap heads and shell holder and you are loading the new caliber with zero adjustments (unless you change bullet profile, or primer size).

No, I don't work for Redding, but boy do I like thier product. Do yourself a favor, stay away from that Aluminum die cast crap, and I'm not talking about Dillon!

I'm real happy with the Lee Classic Cast Turret press, works great for me. Less than $88 shipped from Grafs. Extra turrets are $8 at Cabelas or $10 at Grafs.

Tim

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There are several used presses sometimes seen that would work just fine for the use you describe.

One is the old Herter's turret press...it could be had in both 6-station and 12-station versions. Works fine for hunting ammo applications.

Another is the little Lyman turret press which was around for many, many years and still is fairly often seen cheap (like borscht!!) at gun shows. I think they called it the Spar-T or something like that. (Sometimes my memory fails to wake up when I do these days....) It is a very light little press, but plenty adequate for Hornets, Bees, that sort of thing.

I like turrets, for rifle rounds they're hard to beat.

That is a well organized set up there. Nice place to just get away in your quiet corner on a rainy day.