Not trying to pick a fight, but I might be wrong but when ever I'm at other similar reloading forums and opinions of reloading dies or equipment are asked for it seams to me Lee reloading equipment gets rather badly bashed. Now I am by no measure a reloading expert, but over the 30+ years I've been reloading I have acquired reloading equipment from pretty much every one from Foster (co-ax press) RCBS, Hornady, Lyman, Redding, Lee, PACT and several who's names I can not at the moment recall, and I can say in all honesty none of it ever turned out to be junk and I reload for 8 different rifle and 5 different HG calibers.
In regard to Lee I own allot of their equipment from dies to case trimmers to presses to hand primers and all have served me well. I have used and still use Lee Collet dies to reload my most accurate rifle ammunition in .35 Remington .338wm, .300wm, 7mmstw, 7mm-08, 6.5x55. I have also used Redding dies to achieve the same level of success but not more and Redding dies cost about 2x as much.
Granted I am not a competition lever shooter or reloader so my results and experiences with not just Lee but all of my reloading equipment is limited to hunting and recreational shooting to distances of 400 yards and less, but for the average shooter and reloader such as I, based on at least 25+ years of using Lee dies and equipment I can find no reason to fault Lee equipment in any way.
I especially love the Lee Collet and factory crimp dies along with the Lee Quick Trim Deluxe. I will openly admit the Lee lock ring they put on their dies suck and I replace them with ones from Hornady, but other than that, I have always been completely satisfied with Lee reloading equipment.
One post made regaled a story where a person claimed he received no less than nine consecutive defective die sets from Lee. Now while I am no statistician I would have to think getting nine defective items of the same type of equipment in a row would be if not impossible would be considering all the variables involved when buying reloading dies, bordering on millions if not tens of millions to one in terms of odds.
Without doubt Lee purposely by design fills a niche by making extremely affordable reloading equipment by maintain the lowest prices in the industry, but in my experience that in no way equates to producing as so many have termed "junk" reloading equipment. I have no experience reloading for long range rifle so to those trying to remain sub moa from 800 yards to beyond 1000 things might be different, but for reloaders such as myself who reload for recreational shooting and hunting I don't see how anyone can term Lee as "junk".
Just my .2c worth.
In regard to Lee I own allot of their equipment from dies to case trimmers to presses to hand primers and all have served me well. I have used and still use Lee Collet dies to reload my most accurate rifle ammunition in .35 Remington .338wm, .300wm, 7mmstw, 7mm-08, 6.5x55. I have also used Redding dies to achieve the same level of success but not more and Redding dies cost about 2x as much.
Granted I am not a competition lever shooter or reloader so my results and experiences with not just Lee but all of my reloading equipment is limited to hunting and recreational shooting to distances of 400 yards and less, but for the average shooter and reloader such as I, based on at least 25+ years of using Lee dies and equipment I can find no reason to fault Lee equipment in any way.
I especially love the Lee Collet and factory crimp dies along with the Lee Quick Trim Deluxe. I will openly admit the Lee lock ring they put on their dies suck and I replace them with ones from Hornady, but other than that, I have always been completely satisfied with Lee reloading equipment.
One post made regaled a story where a person claimed he received no less than nine consecutive defective die sets from Lee. Now while I am no statistician I would have to think getting nine defective items of the same type of equipment in a row would be if not impossible would be considering all the variables involved when buying reloading dies, bordering on millions if not tens of millions to one in terms of odds.
Without doubt Lee purposely by design fills a niche by making extremely affordable reloading equipment by maintain the lowest prices in the industry, but in my experience that in no way equates to producing as so many have termed "junk" reloading equipment. I have no experience reloading for long range rifle so to those trying to remain sub moa from 800 yards to beyond 1000 things might be different, but for reloaders such as myself who reload for recreational shooting and hunting I don't see how anyone can term Lee as "junk".
Just my .2c worth.