Thread: Lee collet die

"Can you use them in a load master press? " short answer is no not really.

The longer answer is I had a bad experience with 308w and 303brit using this press and lee collet dies. The effort needed to reform large cases is enough to cause the head to move on the ram quite frequently, especially full sizing. Now for 223 its probably small enough a cartridge to be Ok but YMMV as they say.

My opinion of this Lee press is for pistol and small rifle cartridges is if you get a good one it seems to be successful. I think I got a bad one and coupled with trying to resize 30cal cartridges it was just a a pile of crap.

I swapped to a rockchuker and Ive never had an issue since with Lee collect dies or f/l.

if you want a progressive press buy a Dillion 550 or 650 is my 2 cents.