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I have been buying selling and trading Lee Loaders for years...demand and prices have been going steadily up ever since the first Obama panic. Cartridges a little out of the mainstream, particularly military, are money in the bank. A target model in .308 last month on Ebay sold for 130 bucks.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Still got my first two lee loaders in 357 and 30-30. Spent many an hour on the concrete basement floor beating on them with the plastic hammer. And using dish soap for lube.
Can you dig it?
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I’ve got a Lee hand press and it is about all I use anymore. I can load up twenty to fifty rounds with that as quick as anything else. Or I can deprime and size a couple hundred cases while I watch TV.
Last edited by JoeBob; 12/12/20.
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I’ve got a Lee hand press and it is about all I use anymore. I can load up twenty to fifty rounds with that as quick as anything else. Or I can deprime and size a couple hundred cases while I watch TV. Since the laundry/utility room became the laundry/2nd bathroom two years ago this has been my reloading bench, along with the LR coffee table, an RCBS priming tool, RCBS 510 scale, and some Lee dippers. It works, but I miss my RCBS Jr press I bought in 1964. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/VtzliMV.jpg)
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I reloaded hundreds of 30-30 ammo with one of those lee loaders back when I was a teenager. They worked just fine. Moved on to the Rock Chucker.
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I had a couple Lee loaders when I was young, they will load ammo but never cared for how much the resized the neck, to tight. I also had a Lee Target model loader, the one that you could ream the inside of the necks with, now that was a decent loader. When I bought my first 22-250 rifle, I purchased a Lee Target loader to load for it. I still use parts of it. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/tGlTgRT.jpg)
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I see the 30-30 is about the only one not backordered. Good to have on hand.
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Still got my first two lee loaders in 357 and 30-30. Spent many an hour on the concrete basement floor beating on them with the plastic hammer. And using dish soap for lube.
Can you dig it? Did not take me long to quit beating on the lee die with a plastic hammer. I purchased a arbor press. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/5RpGj2Z.jpg)
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