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Posted: 12/24/2010 11:13:50 AM EDT
| Anyone using this press? I have been thinking about picking one up as a Christmas gift for myself, wanting some feedback first though. Any comments on it are greatly appreciated. |
| It's a good press; as an aside, I saw a special on competitive sniping (I think it was Army) teams, and their ammo guys were loading using these presses; they have a good reputation for putting out ammo with good concentricity (though the ammo that comes out of my Hornady Single Stage is pretty much dead on too). I wouldn't mind having one on my bench. |
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I read somewhere that the Army Marksmanship Unit has a whole room full of these for loading rifle ammo. Yeah, that's it... that's the guys they showed loading the ammo on that special I saw. I LOLed at the special, though, cause they were showing the guys weighing out (and trickling) what looked like corn cob media (pretending it was gunpowder) while on camera (the show was in HD –– it was definitely tumbler media). I guess they did that for "safety" reasons, etc. while the cameras were there. That room was full of Forster presses, I did notice that. |
My first press, and I've been happily using it for over 43 years.. I'm not too fond of the press priming setup, so I use a Lee Autoprime for that. The Co-Ax does have an ungodly amount of leverage, so you need to look at which die you have in the press. A 30-06 will get absolutely smushed trying to fit into a .30 Luger die, and it feels like a normal resize. 
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