Reviews & Ratings for RCBS Pro Chucker 7 Progressive Presses — 4 reviews — Page 1

I recommend this only if you have a lathe and mill or access to one. Comes with plastic parts that break frequently requiring you to wait 3 to 6 weeks for replacements from RCBS. I milled steel parts to replace the plastic ones. Additionally the primer pickup mechanism had to be rethought and rebuilt. This involves replacing the primer trolley rail and the mechanism to bring the trolley back to the shellplate once a primer has been captured. My solution was to get rid of the spring and use pneumatics to push the trolley back to the shellplate. Also the case drop ramp has broken off twice now (I put cases in manually currently). I'm designing a fix which won't require me sending the part back which puts the whole press out of commission while I wait for the replacement (6 weeks for the first one). Once it works, though, it's pretty good. If I had the 10k to 15k I would have gotten the Dillon. But I didn't so I got this thing. It has been fun making the parts and doing the redesigns though.

Bought this press from my local shop thinking it would be awesome, turns out it's a fancy green ornament on my bench that has no useful qualities whatsoever. In the past 2 years that I've owned it I've been able to reload a whopping 99 rounds of 45 Auto with it. I've adjusted everything multiple times and still the index arm bends (can't bend it back, when it happens the press is down till RCBS sends you a replacement,) primer slides break randomly, case feeder (good luck finding one of those, and when you do don't bother, it's not worth the money) binds constantly, shell plates are machined by a blind rhesus monkey, and the powder measure was manufactured with tolerances that you could fly a 747 through.

Stay very far away from this pile. Buy the blue press, buy the red press, squeeze the projectile into the case with your bare hands, all are better than fighting with this thing.