re: OB, I need advice on this reloading kit

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Does everyone just absolutely hate the hornady classic set or what

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No but it $340. Any Lee set will be much cheaper and do the exact same job. The Hornady powder measure might be better than the Lee as well as the scale. I bought everything separate. I didnt buy a kit but I still have mainly Lee stuff for the meat and potatoes of my reloading. The odds and ends are Wilson, Redding, Hornady, and RCBS. I have the Hornady bullet comparators and the headspace gauges.

I looked at all the powder measures and found that the few that are really accurate cost $200+. I bought a Redding powder trickler (because its the heaviest) so I didnit need extreme accuracy in my powder measure. The Lee one is $25. I got it to throw IMR4350 exactly on the number 20 times consecutively and didnt have to trickle powder. That was worth the $25. It is a pain to get it to do that consistently though but I dont mind it.

People say Lee is junk/cheap/ wont last, but it works and the customer service is outstanding. The OP could take his solid aluminum press the day he gets it, stick it in a vice and break it in half and Lee will give him a new one at no cost. If he has trouble with anything, all he has to do is call and one of the guys will tell him how to solve any problem he has. Why spend more when this works? Im making accurate ammunition with the cheap Lee stuff so I dont need to spend more money because it looks "better".