LEE classic turret mods
Posted: 30 Aug 2015 08:54
Hey, forum,
At my last match I found problems with my .38spl ammo. Some cases are just a hair shorter than others, and on these my crimp was not suffitient. I had two rounds teleskoping together in the mag tube of my Winchester 66.
I got about 800 rounds of that ammo left, and I don't want to have that happen again. Decorking them, reuse powder and bullets would be too much of a hassle, so I thought I just put a bit more of a crimp on them. I can't put loaded rounds through my pro1000, so I needed another idea.
Just a few weeks ago I ordered a LEE classic turret, that arrived just in time for this project.
I put an Inline Fabrication reverse indexing rod on it, and the custom made four way case kicker. All I needed now was four identically set seat/crimp dies... or a non indexing turret. So I drilled out the square hole in the bottom of one of my turrets, and voila: a non indexing turret on a reverse indexing shaft with custom case kicker.
Please have a look on my video to see how it works. I didn't show the turret underside, I guess you all know how a hole looks like, and because I only had my mobile phone to capture the video, I couldn't feed cases. But it's obvious how it works.
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At my last match I found problems with my .38spl ammo. Some cases are just a hair shorter than others, and on these my crimp was not suffitient. I had two rounds teleskoping together in the mag tube of my Winchester 66.
I got about 800 rounds of that ammo left, and I don't want to have that happen again. Decorking them, reuse powder and bullets would be too much of a hassle, so I thought I just put a bit more of a crimp on them. I can't put loaded rounds through my pro1000, so I needed another idea.
Just a few weeks ago I ordered a LEE classic turret, that arrived just in time for this project.
I put an Inline Fabrication reverse indexing rod on it, and the custom made four way case kicker. All I needed now was four identically set seat/crimp dies... or a non indexing turret. So I drilled out the square hole in the bottom of one of my turrets, and voila: a non indexing turret on a reverse indexing shaft with custom case kicker.
Please have a look on my video to see how it works. I didn't show the turret underside, I guess you all know how a hole looks like, and because I only had my mobile phone to capture the video, I couldn't feed cases. But it's obvious how it works.
[youtube][/youtube]