The Lee Pro 1000 progressive press is a great press for beginning reloaders or seasoned veterans. Just add a bullet and with each pull of the lever, a cartridge is completed. Sizing, priming, powder charging, and bullet seating are all done automatically. Safety features include priming and powder-charging are only done if a case is present. This is a quick lee pro 1000 review.

Lee Pro 1000 9MM Progressive Kit

Lee Precision 3 Hole Turret

Switching of calibers is made simple by easily changing out the turrets with one of a different caliber. The turret is a three station aluminum turret allowing for a sizing die, powder through expanding die and a seating die. Once a turret is set up, readjusting is not needed for changing calibers, simply replace the turret with the turret (sold separately) set up for a different caliber, replace shell holder and you are done.

This press is sold as a press only or as a kit. The lee pro 1000 progressive press kit includes everything to get a loader started right off the bat (minus a scale). Included is a powder measure, priming tool, set of dies available in most popular pistol calibers like the lee pro 9mm, and a case feeder attachment with tubes to automatically feed cases onto the shell plate. The pro auto disk powder measure throws constant powder charges and is designed to automatically charge a case through the case expanding die. The pro 1000 primer attachment allows the reloader to prime each case using the press instead of a hand primer. This allows for less time reloading and more time spent on the range. When the lever is pulled down, a case is fed onto the shell holder; when the lever is brought back up, the primer is seated into the primer pocket of the case. The dies are a set of 3 dies, sizing die, powder through expanding die, and seater die. While these dies are available in most all pistol calibers, they are also avail in some rifle calibers such as the lee pro 223 kit. Using a progressive press to load rifle calibers is not ideal for efficient loading because of extra care a bottle neck needs compared to a pistol case. A bottle neck case needs to be lubed and trimmed and chamfered/deburred. These added steps cause a progressive press to not be as useful in loading rifle cases.