Just bought and used a Lee stem and for the $18.00+ that I paid for it, it worked great.

Installed it in a Lee .300 WM seating die and used to make 6 seating depth dummy rounds for my 7mm RM


Easy to install, use, was accurate and very easy to read.

I have the older Hornady one and at times it is hard to read for my aged eyes.

So far great tool at a great price.

Just have to see if things are repeatable.

Hip

I agree, they work great. They were on sale at MidwayUSA last month for $19.09 so I bought three of them. I used them on my 6mm ARC, 270 Win and 350 Legend because that's what I had Lee dies for.

(They're $19.29 there, now)

Can these stems replace the standard, non- micrometer plugs in the Lee seaters ?
Is it as simply a matter of unscrewing one and screwing in the other ?

Yes, use the standard stem---just screw in the micrometer. I will probably be using mine (which I have installed in the Lee .300WM seater) on .270W, 7mmRM, .30-06 8/06AI, 338-06,.338wm AND 9.3x62.
Installed in a LEE shorter seating die it could be used in any of the .308 based cartridges as well as the Creedmoores and others.

Hip

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Originally posted by 30.06king:
Can these stems replace the standard, non- micrometer plugs in the Lee seaters ?
Is it as simply a matter of unscrewing one and screwing in the other ?

Grant,

As Hipshoot said "Yes", it's dead simple.

Take out the regular seating stem and screw in the micrometer head. On one of my dies the scale faced backwards but I just screwed the die body in a bit to get the scale visible.

Thanks for posting this. I read it yesterday, did a little reading on them and ordered 2 of them.

I guess that since I have a birthday this week, their price was $14.01.

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Originally posted by Fjold:

quote:

Originally posted by 30.06king:
Can these stems replace the standard, non- micrometer plugs in the Lee seaters ?
Is it as simply a matter of unscrewing one and screwing in the other ?

Grant,

As Hipshoot said "Yes", it's dead simple.

Take out the regular seating stem and screw in the micrometer head. On one of my dies the scale faced backwards but I just screwed the die body in a bit to get the scale visible.

As said turn the seating die in or out to get the scale facing you,

Even if you make up dummy oal rounds like I do you are making things a lot easier and faster by just turning the stem and as I said can be used for multiple cartridges.

CHEAP-CHEAP-CHEAP!

Hip