Anyone use the Lee Reloader that you seat the bullets with a mallet / hammer? Thoughts? Thanks !

That is what I started reloading for the 30-30. You can load some pretty good ammo with it but it is slow but can teach one about reloading. There was a thread about them a while back.

Found one of the threads on it. There are others but this gives an idea

https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/6842114

Slow hard to use, get a press and dies.. you’ll be much better off

Thats what I used when I first started reloading. A 38 special set. Like kmon said, kind of slow but depends on how much ammo you need.

Pops started using those over 35 years ago, I still have them and the powder he used.

that is what I started with as well ... fun times reloading 357

I started with loading 270 with a Lee Loader. Worked fine, though it was slow.

It was 44 years ago this past Christmas I started reloading

I was in my Momma's belly when you started reloading LOL. Turn 44 next month.

I had a .45 Colt set and a 3" .410 set I put in my bug out pack but then saw the prices the vintage and out of production sets were getting.

I got $200 for the shotgun set and $75 for the Colt set. I had a 300 Norma Magnum set and brought over $150.

Never used one though. Most of my bench tools are Lee.

Don’t remember when I started. About 40 years ago. RCBS only. Have way too many components for the little shooting that I do now.

Same here, .357mag for me hog hunts back in 80's.

Started loading with a 243, then bought a 7mm Mag target loader back in the 70's. Bought a scale and loaded Hunting rounds only. Accurate but slow as mentioned. Good lessons in reloading learned!!

I have a few of those but only used the 30-30 one. If all you're doing is reloading hunting ammo once year you can't go wrong for the price. Tapping them together with a short piece of 2x4 makes for interesting conversation with whoever is watching.

I started with one of those in the early 80's. Had one in .45acp and one in .44 mag. It was slow but I was trucking local and had a lot of time waiting for dock doors. I could load enough during the week to shoot on Saturday. Got a LEE Turret press in the late 80's and started buying components and stacking deep. Wife once asked why I kept buying more bullet stuff. I told her "Because one day I may not be able to". The day draws near. I pulled out a box of 50 CCI 22 mag with a Western Auto price tag of $4.63 and showed it to my son a while back, he just said dayum!!

Started with Lee Loader in .222 in the late 60's.
Probably loaded close to 300 rounds of mostly 60gr SP for yotes and whitetails with it.
Moved to a Lee bench press in mid 70's and still use it today to load for my .223 Wylde and 6.8.

Buddy and I started 55 years ago, Me with a 218 Bee him a 222.

I started with 357 and 222 back in the early 1970's.

Only time I’ve ever had a primer go off while seating.


Twice.

Wandering through a sporting good store about 55 years ago I ran into these and the employee there gave me some pretty good details of how to load and what to use for a 30-30. I walked out with the dies, a hundred primers and a pound of IMR3031.. That was my start into reloading and it did so good for me that I moved on to more modern stuff and have loaded my own ever since with RCBS equipment.