Lee hand press, has anyone used?

[Geofois]

I'm thinking about the hand press or the other small single stage press to mount on a piece of wood and then I can put on my coffee table. I can do some hand priming, drop some powder then press on the bullet so I don't have to keep running to the garage for all my reloading duties. The hand tool is nice so I can just put in a small box and keep inside the coffee table along with some other stuff. "Lazy loading"

Edit: Just saw you can get the kit for $63 and prime with the hand press. It's probably more convenient to use one hand to hold the hand primer and then the other hand to load the brass and go through them quickly but it seems like you can do a decent job with the hand press also. You just have to keep putting the primers in one by one. It never occurred to me you can use the scoop to drop the powder then just trickle the rest in so I don't need to use a powder measure. I'll be trickling anyways.

[sghart]

I have had one for years. I don't use it a lot any more but I do take it to the range occasionally for load development.


Steve in N CA

[Full Clip]

I use the RCBS model.
Incredibly convenient to have on hand.

[the_tunaman]

I have one and use it to decap and prime sometimes, as I can use it sitting on the couch watching TV in the evening.

We’ve also used it in the couple of reloading seminars that Non-Sheep Firearms has put on... works good to show newbies some of the options and let them get a feel for how much pressure it takes to seat a primer.

[Full Clip]

I use the RCBS model.
Incredibly convenient to have on hand.

[wpod]

I bought a Lee hand press and everything needed to reload 45acp for my son before we moved away.
He loaded 100 or so rounds (his first). They all fired as expected.
Watching him shoot that first reload was priceless. Probably the same amount of trepidation I had with my first reload. "It ain't rocket surgery".

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[Geofois]

I just ordered one on Ebay. I got the kit so it will come with the primer for a decent price. That's my plan, to sit on my but in the living room and take a bin of prepped brass and go to work without sitting in the garage. I can teach my friends and tell them to make some rounds and hopefully get them into it so they don't ask me anymore.

[hambam105]

On flea-Bay I saw the Hand Press being offered made with cast iron and the another in Lee's standard aluminum
going for a few dollars less. Was I seeing things?

I don't see or hear professional handloaders referencing these things. I like the idea of a reloading hand Press. I own one.
Ten bucks used, couldn't pass up a deal. Never used it. I plan to. Someday.

[Geofois]

Just picked up a Lee hand press for $15, hand primer and shell holders for $25, and a Lee powder measure for $10 so now I can sit on the couch =P. I cancelled the ebay purchase. I didn't even think the check craigs but there is quite a few presses etc there. This guy has more presses in the LA area in cases anyone needs another press.

[scamp62]

I used one for a couple of years when I was in the military, ya reloading in the barracks, a very big bad, but I was shooting silhouette pistol competition, and you could not buy 7 TCU ammo at the local gun store. Worked great for me, loaded, and formed thousands of them.

[hambam105]

Holy-Moly! In the Barracks? As in Military Barracks? If our E-6 twenty-five year old Inspector found us with so much as half a ham sandwich from the chowhall or a Buck 110 folder it was loss of a stripe and Office Hours for sure. Gunpowder...Primers...real gunpowder and real primers? There would have been a heart attack somewhere for sure.

Circa 1982, we had a impromptu in the field surprise inspection. Someone reported seeing someone else smoking a joint in the back of a Duce and half going down the road.
All they found was a 1 once bottle of rum in the medical kit of the most innocent Marine in the Platoon. I bet that poor SOB is still on Guard Duty at some back gate at 29 Palms.

[nickrdz]

The Lee hand press is great when using with rifle dies. I've reloaded 30-30 using one and it went by pretty quick. Handgun ammo I'd use a turret or progressive press. The lee hand press works a lot better than the Lyman 310 I used for 38 and 45 colt.

[J.R.W.]

I use mine to reload for my 45-70 so simple can take my reloading box anywhere .

[NapalmCheese]

I have taken the hand press, a brick of primers, a box of cast bullets, a lb of powder, and a 100 .30-30 cases to a hotel before. I was staying there for a month right near some easily accessible BLM land and was shooting every couple of days or so. I brought along a small digital scale as well, but eventually rigged up powder scoop of appropriate volume.

[Geofois]

I used a vice I got at hf to hold my perfect powder measure on the coffee table but a scoop might be just fine since I will trickle in a little to make it exact. I saw a video of a guy who used 9mm or 45acp to make some scoops and trimmed them to be pretty exact.