what is the best press for a beginner for reloading?

Answer 1

there are several.
Try some Dillon.

Answer 2

You are going to want to start out with a single stage press. I would say get an RCBS or REDDING or LYMAN. I have broken lee's junk presses before. Reloading equipment is built to last 4 or 5 life times. So why not buy the good stuff in the beginning and then you have it.

I have an RCBS Rockchucker press. I have had this for at least 20 years and my father used if before me. He also has a Hollywood press that his father used. and it is still going strong today.

Books and more books are also what you are going to need.

I would invest in The ABC's of Reloading.


Stay away from a progressive press there is way too many things going on at once for a new reloader to be paying attention to. Priming, powder charging, bullet seating, indexing, loading, ejecting all happen every time you pull the handle on a progressive.

Progressive + new reloader = something going deadly wrong. that is just me.

Answer 3

If your funds are limited, you could buy a Lee reloading kit. Not the Lee Loader but the kit with the press, dies, powder scale, etc.. They are very reasonably priced and will do a good job. If you have the funds, I would suggest either RCBS or Dillon. They are very good and durable equipment and will last a lifetime of reloading. The down side of either the RCBS or the Dillon is the price. They are a good bit more expensive than the Lee kit but a lot more durable. Lee makes their press. scales, and other components except the dies of aluminum. Dillon and RCBS make theirs of steel.

If you will be doing any reforming of brass from one caliber to another, the Lee probably will not hold up. It takes a lot of force to reform a brass shell to a different caliber and an aluminum press will not likely stand up to the necessary forces. But for simply resizing brass cases, it will be just fine.

You could go online at either www.cabelas.com, www.midwayusa.com, www.midsouth.com, or www.baspro.com to get some ideas of the prices.

Answer 4

RCBS, Lyman, Lee, Dillon all make good equipment. The question I have for you is what are you planning on loading? Pistol, rifle, shotgun? All of the above? How much ammo are you planning loading? 100 rds a week? 1000? All these questions make a differance on which press would be the best for you. Try and find a shop with a good reloading dept. and talk to the quy. Also, buy several different loading manuals and read. They will all be useful when you finally get your press and start loading.
Welcome to the club. It's a facinating and rewarding hobby.

Answer 5

i offered the rock Chucker II kit a at the same time as back and that i'm very pleased with it. I stop reloading approximately 10 years in the past and forgot maximum of what I knew. This kit had each and every little thing i mandatory different than the dies. determine you get and examine by way of various manuals till now you initiate off. it is not that complicated as quickly as you have been doing it a at the same time as, yet you may extremely cut back to rubble on the commencing up in case you do no longer pay close interest. I even have already loaded 5000 rounds on my unmarried point press in under a three hundred and sixty 5 days and that i can't have self belief i did no longer come back into this faster. stable good fortune

Answer 6

I learned from my father when I was a child, so take my advice with a grain of salt. I don't shoot a shotgun enough to bother loading shotshells, and I don't shoot handguns enough to need a progressive press to put out large numbers of cartridges. Since my major interest is in feeding hunting rifles, a single-stage press is enough for almost all I do, and I generally weigh each load (bear with me, it'll make sense later). If your interests and needs are similar, the RCBS Rockchucker is a pretty good place to start. If, on the other hand, you're planning to run pistol cartridges by the thousands, one of the Dillon progressives would get the nod.

Answer 7

Remember the KISS method?
Get RCBS. RCBS makes everything you need, less the brass, bullets and powder.
Forget buying from the big boys and go with the little shops. They will answer you questions and give you what you need.
I keep RCBS starter kits in stock.

Answer 8

single stage? RCBS "rock Chukar2".

Answer 9

Lee*

Answer 10

rifle, pistol, or shotshell?

I like Hornady/Pacific