Good used single stage press

Are you refering to the Breach lock Challenger press or the Classic Cast press? There is a world of difference between the two. The Challenger is an aluminum framed press while the Classic Cast is cast iron and built like a tank.

 

The Challenger is aluminum and the Classic Cast is cast iron. The Challenger ejects the primers through the side of the ram and into a tray, the CC drops them throught the ram into a tube.
The Challenger should be fine for taking out the bulges. I've got both and started with an old Challenger that I've reworked hundreds and hundreds magnum belted cases on.

 

This is what I have my eye on.

The lee Classic Cast Single Stage Press. I think it is the economy work horse.

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/317831?cm_vc=S014

 

Good buy. Let us know what you think of it. I will be buying my press as soon as I sell a few items on fleabay.

 

You've already made up yer mind and it's a good choice. The aluminum Challenger is a pretty good press too, that would last many years. Nuttin' wrong with alminum as I think mebbe the guys complaining about flexing are going a bit overboard (if you have to work the press that hard, really lay on the handle, sumpin wrong!). I have never seen, read, nor heard of anybody breaking or wearing out an aluminum press (I have a C-H "C" style made in the 60s that is still tight and works regularily when my other presses are busy). My first single stage press was the Challenger 2000, an aluminum frame press. Used it for 6 years before divoece forced the sale of my reloading equipment.

A reloader can always use another single stage press...

 

I have the aluminum version and can't say that I have a single complaint. It a great press, and being my only means of reloading it has churned out thousands of rounds, both rifle and pistol without so much as a hiccup. I will be looking into a progressive soon to speed things up a bit, but I'm confident that I'll have the Lee for the rest of my life.

 

That is a good sturdy press. It's the breech lock as you know but the two differences beteen that on and the CC I have are the primers will eject from a hole in the side of the ram and into that tray and then drop down the tube and the ram doesn't look to be able to be shortened to load the big 50s.
This is the one that I have https://fsreloading.com/lee-classic...ntent=CSE&utm_campaign=google_merchant_center both are tanks and could probably withstand a nuclear blast.

 

Not a thing wrong with the side eject, the Challenger is that way. Every now and then a spent primer may bounce out of the tray.
I'm not positive but I think it has a different priming system also. You may have to hand prime or use the ram prime die set up.

 

Just went back and read the description and it uses the lever prime so no worries there.