Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Looking for a portable press.

So - he just brings the range home.....

When the answer is as simple as this, why does the discussion continue with "Look at mine"?

Lee Hand Press. I use it at the range all the time.

I put the right shellholder in it before leaving home and set up the seating die.

I fill these with my powder charges (often a ladder of different charges).

I drop powder at the range with a funnel.

Works great, although it can take awhile--because of the number of people asking you about it and saying "Huh, that's a great idea."

Good luck.

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I could not get it to work. I tried plugging the cases with ear plugs. The powder would stick to the plug. Tried cotton but did not like it.

Finally settled on glass vials with screw-top lids. They fit perfectly in a shotshell box. I drop charges at home, write it on the vial with a Sharpie and pack them easily to the range to use with my Arbor Press for seating. I love how efficient it is.

Kinda, his home IS on the range. In more ways than one.

Ed

There is some creative thoughts here folks, Appreciate it.

Again, creative thinking. Appreciate it.

So - rather than vials and being careful to avoid spilling, I suggested the seat bullets extra long... Then can just twist your micrometer seating die and whamo. All theoretical on my part, been meaning to try it for COL testing.

I use a Lee handpress, primed cases, and RCBS scale powered by 9 volt battery. I usually get the charge weight and seating depth dialed in one session, but there has been a time or two where I've seated loads long at home and shortened COAL at the "range". Like PG, I don't use the press for sizing. Just for seating.

Yes Boom, you get creative credits too........

the one 'possibile' flaw to your idea,

If I seat the bullets, and then don't need that load, I'll have to pull the bullet, trying to really avoid that.

Seat at the range is the idea, (I think).

This method does not allow as much flexibility for testing different bullets. And, once done, you have to pull all those bullets and resize your necks/cases.

I tried the Blackhorn powder tubes but could not live with the static charge causing blockage in flow. The glass vials do not static cling at all..

Second that!

I use an RCBS Partner press for seating bullets @ the range. Mounted it to a wooden fixture that can sit on a bench or table or the bed of a truck or back of an SUV.

MM

Back in the 70s I watched an American Sportsman episode that showed a precision competition shooter use the vials at the range with preloaded powder. He would handload each case before a shot. Did pretty well.

Measuring a charge in the wind around here doesn't sound feasible to me. Preloading long and adjusting at the range makes a lot of sense to me. Pulling bullets is easy and resizing the neck is just a quick trip thru the Lee Collet Die using a mandrel without the recapping pin.

This is what I take to the range and use at the matches.
http://www.benchrestbulletin.net/drupal/node/67
A local guy is making a run of them and I think will be reasonable.
A lot of BR guys use 2 Partner presses. One for sizing and the other to seat the bullets.

That's a fine looking little press! "The stroke is 2 1/2", weight is 6 1/2 lbs., and the dimensions are 1 1/2" x 4" x 10 1/4""

Have to setup one of them ice fishing huts to use a scale here right now. LOL

ballpark price?

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