I got the Lee Hand Press a few weeks ago, since I'm temporarily living in an apartment for the summer while I'm off working. So far I like it for loading .223. As long as the cases are lubed well it doesn't take much force to resize them. But it'll definitely build up your pecs
. I think I've got close to 1K cases in various stages of being prepped.
I just sit down on the couch after work with a container of about 200 cases and resize and deprime them. It's pretty nice to not be stuck sitting at the kitchen table or something while I'm doing that. It goes pretty fast, maybe an couple hours or so to do those 200 cases.
I picked up a cheap, cheap cordless drill from wal mart, I think it was about $14.00 and use that when I ream the primer pockets and trim the cases. For reaming I use the Hornady Small Primer Pocket Reamer tool. It's made so you can't cut the primer pocket and deeper or larger than it needs to be. I just chuck it up in the drill and hold the trigger down and hold the cases on there for a couple of seconds each, it works really well.
I do the same to trim with the Lee trimmer setup and the cordless drill.
I got the Lee balance beam scale and used that, the dipper from the die set, and a powder trickler to work up my first couple different loads. But it took forever to do each charge like that so I got a Lee Perfect Powder Measure for like 20 bucks and screwed it to a little piece of wood that I clamp to the table. That sped up the process tremendously and throws charges just as accurate as I could get with the trickler.
Heres a picture of everything I had to load .223