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Those are the dies you want. I got mine at Midway, but they are currently out of stock until March and about $10 more expensive. I would jump on the Natchez set. Things are not tending to get cheaper with time.

The Hornady dies will work with other brands of presses. You may need some kind of an adapter for them, though. That will depend on the specific brand of press you buy.

Ok thanks.
I am looking at the Lee Anniversary starter set to go with the Hornady dies.
Aries

Aries wrote:Ok thanks.
I am looking at the Lee Anniversary starter set to go with the Hornady dies.
Aries

The Anniversary Kit was my first setup. It served me well for some time, but the handle to ram interface always seemed to be straining with resizing larger cases, so I replaced the press with the Classic Cast. That served me well until I dabbled into swaging bullets from annealed, spent pistol brass and it to seemed to strain at the handle interface. I recently had some jingle burning a hole in my pocket, so I added a rockchucker alongside the Classic Cast for the really tough jobs, like resizing 300 WSM down to 300 WSSM. A major PITA idea I abandoned due to the fallout rate, but that's another story. Having the two alongside one another allows me to do two steps sequentially without having to knock down my setup. It's mostly a matter of convenience, but I still prefer depriming with the Classic Cast.

The Anniversary Kit will work fine woth the 450B. Dies are dies and most fit most presses. No surprises there. The 50 BMG die set is a little different given the size you're dealing with, but that's about all that comes to mind in the single stage press world. There will always be some oddball exception, but they're few and far between. Go for it. The bottom line is, any press is better than no press. I Remember my dad cursing ad throwing around his Load-All shotgun shell reloader like 40 years ago. That was as far as he got with reloading. He's not good with fastidious processes...

Hoot

Well again, thanks for all the help on my first reloading set up.
I hope to get it in the next few months.
I spent the cash I had on ammo. Around 100 rounds. I will pick up all
the brass from it. So I plan to shot real slow.
Aries

Please tell me what you think. Out of these two which one would you pick? I am leaning towards the first one.
Thanks , Aries

Deluxe turret press reloading kit.
http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/search_c ... 1-5922-627
I think this is the same kit as above ( better price)
http://fsreloading.com/html/xcart/catalog/pistol.html

or this .
Lee 50th anniversary BREECH LOCK CHALLENGER PRESS KIT
http://fsreloading.com/html/xcart/catalog/anivers.html

If you are just starting out, I would go with the breech lock challenger press kit. The turret press adds a degree of complication, in that (I have heard) people have had problems getting and keeping the turret adjusted so that everything runs smoothly (for example, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLAru413y1A&feature=related. Also I note that one is specified for reloading pistol ammunition, and it may not be tall enough for the 450 Bushmaster cartridge.

I went with the Hornady equivalent of the non turret press and it is no problem to load 200 rounds in a couple of hours.

Hopefully, you have checked out some videos of each of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOpN9iYOyE8 (a very simplified demonstration, but note all of the prep steps that are omitted) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut_I1GMm_c4 for example.

While the second one is done by a person new to reloading, here is the first of the Hornady series of 12 videos, which I think are very professionally done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8rRDz6fXbo.

The Hornady 8th Edition reloading manual is my favorite, and not because it has the .450 Bushmaster. One reason is it give the COL for the different bullet it recommneds.

I have reloaded shotgun shell when I was a kid. Just never pistol or rifle rounds.
years ago. Kind of similar.
I did look at some of the videos on YouTube as well.
Thanks.

I have the Lee 4 hole turret press and the RCBS Rockchucker single stage press. I love the turret press for bulk pistol and 223 rounds, but use the Rockchucker for the 450B. I feel the accurracy the 450B is capable of deserves the individual treatment of sizing, powder measuring and bullet seating. What I've read here about crimping, makes it very important and it aslo deserves individual treatment. If you aren't planning to load large quantities of the 450B then the single stage is the way to go.

Thanks for the reply. I had heard the same thing from a few people around home as well.
I am still in the deciding on what to get stage. I am thinking about getting the 450B die first since in seems that they are very hard to find right now.
Aries