Lee Classic Turret Loading .223 Remington Part II

with its cast iron base and it's removable Auto indexing aluminum turret heads the lead classic cast iron turret press is definitely an interesting piece of equipment in this video series we're going to take a look at this press in action and various applications all right so we're just about ready to get started and you can you can see here that I don't have my indexing rod installed this is what the indexing rod looks like and that allows us to to operate in manual index mode where we can just twist the position of the turret head at any given point and I'm going to do that because I'm still going to dial in my my bullet cartridge overall length so let's take a look at what the process looks like so what I'm going to do is put a shell in the shell holder I'm going to raise the RAM to the top of the stroke and then with the safety prime system I just push forward and click it so that I get a primer in the cup now at the bottom of the stroke we're actually going to be priming so now we can see we have a case that's been sized D primed and reap rhymed all in one station next we're going to add our powder load do a visual on that make sure that that we're up where we need to be now we're going to take our bullet and seat the bullet to see where we're at so I'm going to take a measurement here and we'll dial that load in all right so I've just cranked down our our seating depth we're looking for about two point two five zero your validation here and Wow looks like we're we're right on great so now our seating depth is complete all we need to do now is throw some crimp on that and we will be and we'll be done so now we have a completed cartridge that we've loaded on the lead classic turret let's see now what it looks like to put this machine into full auto indexing mode basically all we have to do there is push on the bottom of the turret while we rotate it we're going to drop the indexing rod in and then we're going to spin the rod while we while we push down on the turret we just have to kind of finesse this a little bit and now we're going to be in Auto indexing mode so we're now aligned to start loading okay well now that we're set up do some Auto indexing loading here put our primer in Prime on the downstroke charge the case we're going to wait a little bit for the primer to drop each time now we're going to need to place our bullet and then crimp on completed another cartridge let's increase the speed just a little bit this time never going to be in a hurry but it doesn't hurt to get up to cruising speed as it were well there you have it in just a matter of minutes we've loaded a box of two to three ammo for our ar-15 and this press has proven to be not only a great value but a great piece of equipment what we're just getting started with the Lee classic turret press here on ultimate reload or calm I certainly hope that you're going to stick around and follow our progress as we work our way through other rifle calibers pistol calibers and look at other aspects of using this press in the reloading room thanks a lot

Channel: gavintoobe

Views: 222,495

Keywords: Reloading, AR-15, .223, Remington, Rifle, 5.56, NATO, Tactical

Id: I-OeBiN7qP4

Length: 5min 17sec (317 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 05 2010

Reddit Comments

[u/Josh6x6]

You don't necessarily have to trim every single time (just when it actually needs trimmed). How often it needs trimmed will vary with a lot of factors. It's best to measure the case after resizing - trim if needed. Of course, accuracy will improve if all of the cases are as near to identical as you can get them, and that includes length.

Rifle brass will need to be trimmed much more often than pistol brass. Light target handgun loads very likely will never need to be trimmed, for example.

[u/jdford85]

Rifle brass a lot of people resize and deprime. Then trim off press then back into the press to finish

[u/Donzie762]

It’s a poor choice for loading rifle cartridges although I do use a 3 hole turret for my match ammo. I do all of the case prep on a single stage then use the turret to prime, charge, seat then crimp.

They are great for pistol cartridges as they don’t need to be trimmed or cleaned of case lube.

[u/jerky74064]

Well you don't have to trim every time you reload. If you resize and trim the cases they are good for several resizes and loading before you need too do it again. Trimming a rifle cartridge is more important when you use a roll crimp as the extra length can cause problems and if you switch to a factory crimp it will alleviate many issues.

Most of my brass is in batches and I well periodically check a few pieces for length and if they are getting close then I will trim. Otherwise they just get run through the press as normal.

Also some brass will grow faster than others. Kind of depends on how much bigger the chamber is and the pressure of the cartridge.

[u/dircs]

What I do is prep all of the cases (resize, trim, clean the primer pocket) and then run it through the turret. This does result in it going through the resizer twice, but it works and doesn't result in having to take it on and off the press.

[u/Tragicallyhungover]

The only thing I can think of is setting it up:

Deprimer/primer Sizer Some sort of case trimmer Bullet loader/crimper

Is that even possible?

[u/turkeytimenow]

I use the turret press for all handgun loads as I do not trim those. All rifle kid are done on a single stage for me.

[u/AUrugby]

I don’t trim all that often... pretty simple.

My new press has 10 stations and trims on press.

[u/Daekar3]

This makes me thankful that I shoot straight walled cases most of the time... Trim them when you buy them and don't think about it for a year or two...