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Well, as a reloader with 31 years experiance, I can tell you this. If you don't have time to change dies, due to your busy hunting, working, and child rearing schedule, you don't have time for load development. Load development is a process. Gun specific. You can't pick components that catch your eye, and assume they are the best for that particular rifle. Cold hard fact there. Reloading is full of cold hard facts. You aren't going to buy success. You will earn it through trial and error. Most of the advice you were offered here was just fine. These fellas have achieved some fine results with equipment very well suited to the pursuit of accuracy. Which is ALWAYS the first criteria. My advice is that with your very busy schedule, you look into the higher end factory offerings. Obviously, price is no problem.
 
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Well, as a reloader with 31 years experiance, I can tell you this. If you don't have time to change dies, due to your busy hunting, working, and child rearing schedule, you don't have time for load development. Load development is a process. Gun specific. You can't pick components that catch your eye, and assume they are the best for that particular rifle. Cold hard fact there. Reloading is full of cold hard facts. You aren't going to buy success. You will earn it through trial and error. Most of the advice you were offered here was just fine. These fellas have achieved some fine results with equipment very well suited to the pursuit of accuracy. Which is ALWAYS the first criteria. My advice is that with your very busy schedule, you look into the higher end factory offerings. Obviously, price is no problem.


Good advice. If you can't read, understand & follow instructions don't get into reloading. Not a hobby for someone who is easily discouraged.
 
I'm not sure you guy's are being quite fair with him. Read thru the post's all over the internet and look at some of the stuff posted. Everybody champion's their favorite tools and methods. They bash other tool's they don't like. How can Lee be in business all these years if they are the POS some would have you believe? If Dillon or RCBS or Corbon are that great, how come they haven't run everybody else out of business? Then when guy's ask about starter stuff it ends up with measureing thousands off the lands ect! Been doing this 40+ years and have never known how many thousands off the lands a bullet is, doesn't make that much difference for the hunter, not even the varmit hunter. It applies only to the accuracy nut! What does another .1 or .2" in accuracy mean when the target is as large as even a coyote? Nothing. And if you concider shooting the coyote at 300+ yds it's still nothing because I don't know anybody that can hold with .1 or .2" , in the field, at even 100yds much less 300+. A quarter min, .25, at 300 yds is 3/4"! And who does that with their varmit rifle after the bench rest is gone? How about even from the bench rest?

Then you get the guy's that drag out their best photo's of their best group's and post them as tho it is the norm. sometimes maybe it is but usually it's not even close. How many guy's show up on web sites and brag about their rifle that shoot's 1" group's? Not many, everybody has a .5" rifle.

So I think that while the origional poster might well not have realized what was going on, he has good reason to be confussed. People on the web taught him that!
 
DonF,
Every one has their own standard and preference in tools.
May be you oversighted this part, he was looking for best money can buy.

"can you please provide me with the top two makers with the most high tech precision presses/dies and accesories available"
 
I don't think it is a crime to milk all from a rifle that it can produce. Yes I shoot benchrest. I do understand the meaning of accuracy. Yes my hunting rifles are tuned to the best of their abilities. I also take offense to statements like " accuracy not making much difference to the hunter". That is an excuse. If you don't care to refine your skills or equipment, I won't hold it against you. Don't make me out to be an "accuracy nut" because I do. In the opening 2 sentences of this post / question were references to accuracy. That is fine, I too love accuracy. What people need to understand, is that reloading has to approached with an open mind, not a fat wallet. Take a good look at the exploded Encore pics floating around on the forums. This is what can happen without a good foundation in the principals regarding safe loading practices. I would gladly show a newbie to reloading all I know. For safty sake. As long as said newbie came with an open mind, and a willingness to learn.
 
Yeah ... what Dogwood Creek said ...

I certainly don't shoot benchrest but I do my best in my load development process to get the most out of my rifles. I am thinking if sub-MOA wasn't so important to me ... why reload?

Let us say my Jeep is getting 17 mpg ... but if I tweak it a little here and a little there so I could get 19 mpg ... wouldn't it be wise to do so if I was capable and the performance of my vehicle was important to me?
 
The only press I own is an RCBS Rockchucker. I've loaded countless thousands of highly accurate competition and hunting loads...all of which have given me fond memories of great hunts and fun matches. My press is 17 years old and I fully expect to see my sons using it for the next 15 or so years. I see no need to replace it.
 


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