Lee Pro 1000 review

[Jon Neely]

Got it!! and the primer tray is sold separately from what I am seeing? or they just dont have it listed and it comes with? I am ordering through cabelas

Primer tray is included.

[johnny1290]

I've loaded 4000 or so rounds on mine.

You don't use that doohickey you add on top of the tubes to sort the brass into them? I think it was $10. I guess you could just use a funnel or sometyhing but its really handy.

I like youir idea about drilling a hole for a paperclip to hold the primers when refilling.

The ejector is a good idear too.

I use graphite lube on the primer feed ramp and that seems to help reduce problems.

I'd never reloaded before getting this one. I screwed up tons of rounds. I'm still shooting up that old ammo I loaded before I got the hang of it. I used to be stuck at 50 rounds per hour for a month or three.

Then finally I got the hang of it, and I can crank out hundreds of rounds an hour without really trying.

The Lee is a little rickety with the plastic tubes, it's a bit fiddly and needs things tightened here and there, but *for the money* it'll produce a round that, like you said, will shoot just like a round reloaded in a much more expensive setup.

I think 5,000 rounds or so was my break even for everything including my bullet casting equipment, so I'm ahead of the game from here on out.

I think we can load .223 on it, which is the only volume rifle ammo I really would like to reload.

[new1911]

tagged, thanks for the write up and detailed pictures!