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Originally Posted by deserted
Bought a 550B in '93 to load for mine and my sons' USPSA guns. Just went back and checked, counted 11 caliber conversion kits with five powder measures. A Rockchucker, a Lee Breechlock, and one of their hand-held ones, too. 28 different calibers at last count. I use the Dillon more than all the others combined, including the MECs for 12 and 20 ga. You will not be sorry for buying a Dillon anything
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The only people I know that regretted buying Dillon were those that didn't use them. A pretty big chunk of money for about zero use...
The bright side, GREAT resale value!
I was butt hurt about the price, now I don't know why I waited so long and bought so many cheaper presses!
The aftermarket support, gadget makers for Dillon stuff is pretty good too!
What Dillon didn't think of or doesn't add to keep costs down is on the aftermarket, most of it fairly inexpensive.
My big hold out was case & bullet feeders, case feeder is $250, but making one from a 5 gallon bucket is $30 if you are handy with hand tools,
The bullet feeder cost me $80 instead of $500 (YouTube is a wonderful thing!)
I'm like you, I go ahead and buy a powder thrower for each tool head and leave it set up.
I have my favorite loads, same powder & charge, and it increases cost in the front end, but makes things so much faster & easier it's not funny...
The little Lee Turret is right there, ready to do bullet pulling or whatever in the event it's needed, with tool head changes taking 2 seconds it's just too handy & easy...
Tool head set up with .223/5.56 tools, tool head with .45ACP tools, tool head set up with 9x19mm tools, etc, makes short work of QC culls, no stray cartridges laying around so you have to wonder later where they came from.
Makes short work of smaller production scale loading and REALLY reduces aggravation!
For those of us that moved up through singles, to tool inserts, to turrets, to rotary tool heads, then to all manner of 'Doctored' progressives, then finally to a progressive that was engineered from the ground up to be a progressive, this is probably the easiest, least glitchy common machine on the market.
Works well, has lifetime warranty that Dillon actually honors, cost is reasonable, it's realatively easy to adjust, the aftermarket supports it, hard to beat all that.
I'll be more than happy to jump to another machine, IF someone can point out one that can beat all that and offer more, but right now, the next step is Camdex, and they start at $34,000 (talk about butt hurt!).