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Anyone seen or use one of these?
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Posts: 9797 | Location: Missouri City, Texas | Registered: 21 June 2000Reply With Quote
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It's not a turret press, just seems to be a single stage with naff holders for the bits and bobs you usually have close at hand anyway when reloading. Where does all the primer pocket crud go when using the pocket cleaner on the bits and bobs holder, all over the press I guess?
A bin for cases but still needing a reloading block!!!!!!
A spring assist and we all know what happens to springs eventually.

I'll give that it will be a very rigid press but then how rigid do you need.

It will load ammo like any other press, just look a bit shinier than most for a while, can't really see any outstanding qualities that make it a must to have and the best in the business????
 
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I have one (have two other RCBS presses) and use it frequently. My impressions/experiences:


  • Incredibly rigid and strong, it is a beast and there will never be any flex in this press unless you are the Hulk
  • Very, very tight tolerances. There is absolutely no slop or wiggle in this press, ram or linkage
  • Need to use Hornady shellholders but I have turned the knurling off the RCBS SH to fit the holder catch
  • I have confirmed with gauges that it loads more concentric ammo than my other presses, less runout on bullet seating
  • Reversible for LH/RH
  • I only use the press, none of the attachments
  • Uses the Hornady Lock-N-Load bushings which is fast and easy. I purchased the adapter to allow me to use my Redding dies in the LNL bushings
  • Spring assisted ram, moves effortlessly
  • Overall I really like the quality of the press. Is it worth the expense, probably if you load match/target ammo or want the absolute best hunting ammo but like everything else in handloading consistency is key.


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Posts: 1026 | Location: Southeastern PA, USA | Registered: 14 February 2001Reply With Quote
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it appears to be a solid performer. But I like my old green press stamped with the year '72 on the top. Probably not going to change soon. Is it long enough to load the longer cartridges? Be Well. Packy
 
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It's not a turret press, just seems to be a single stage with naff holders for the bits and bobs you usually have close at hand anyway when reloading. Where does all the primer pocket crud go when using the pocket cleaner on the bits and bobs holder, all over the press I guess?
A bin for cases but still needing a reloading block!!!!!!
A spring assist and we all know what happens to springs eventually.



Yep - it sure isn't a Turret Press - what part of "The next evolution in single stage press technology" was unclear.

Yep - primer pocket crud falls out of the primer pocket every time and lands on whatever is underneath it. Haven't seen one with a built in vacuum system yet or even a debris shoot. I have this amazing high tech device on my bench. It's called an old paint brush and I sweep the the debris off.

Yep - you need a loading block. Is there a press out there that comes with an integral loading block?

Yep - springs wear out. I guess they should be prohibited in all mechanical devices - like firearms, you know they have firing pin springs, main springs, recoil guide springs, magazine springs.

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1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken.
2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps.
3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges.
4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down.
5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine.
6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle.
7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions.
8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA.
9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not.
10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact.
11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores.
12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence.
13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances.
 
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Thanks Mike!
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Rusty
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"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
 
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