Lee presses - Pro 1000 or Classic Turret?

[OldCannon]

If you're starting, I recommend the Classic all the way. You're not going to get the speed of a progressive, but you get a lot of flexibility. If you're looking for a progressive, you should be comparing to the Hornady LnL or Dillon as well.

I have a Lee Classic myself and have no regrets about my investment, although I loaded 300 rounds yesterday for a match and am realizing that I probably need to switch to a progressive if I have to do this every other week!

[MoJo]

For a beginner, classic turret - - - for a progressive get the Lee Loadmaster the Pro 1000 is OK the Loadmaster rocks! If I ever decide to change progressive presses I'll probably get a Dillon. Until then I'll happily use the Loadmaster.

[LTUME1978]

I have the Classic Turret (first move up from a single stage). I am well pleased with it and it is faster to both load ammo and to set up than a single stage. I load pistol (45 ACP, 380 and 357) with it but will try 5.56 soon. I try to do most of my loading in the winter when it is to nasty to do much else (have a several thousand pieces of brass for the 45 that I have accumulated) so the time savings has not driven my to a progressive yet.

[LJM]

Went through this my self very recently. My lee pro 1000 came in last thursday. I have loaded about 1000 rounds so far and I can tell you it is a little picky and not real strong, but for the money if you just want to crank out rounds for practice it will do it. I read and reserched quite a bit and what was said was keep an Eye on the primer feed. The shoot must stay full to keep gravity working to make the primers feed right. Keep it clean around the primer ram if powder or anything gets around it you will have problems. Tighten everything when you set it up. mine came adjusted very close from midway but the powder through expander slipped after about 10 rounds and I started shaving bullets instead of seating them properly. All that said I really enjoyed loading up some target ammo and got to about 250 rounds an hour. including filling primers, cases, and using a can of compressed air to clean primer area pretty much anytime I stopped to fill something.