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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
Good! Maybe you will come to your senses and buy a Dillon that you do nothing to but pull the handle and reload, not a Lee that you re-engineer time after time trying to get it to be like a Dillon.
My Father tried and tried to drill it into my thick head but it took years after he passed for me to realize something. The time you waste doing things that are not important is time that you can never get back. As a kid it seems meaningless but once you get older and realize this. I love to putz and tinker with things. Am tired of having too many projects, some of which I will never get completed before I die.
Time to put the key in the thing, or turn the switch on and just enjoy it.
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That logic works for most, but my enjoyment often stems from the tinkering.
The reason I have so many toys in my shop is not because I make alot of money.... trust me, I don't.... It is because I enjoy the challenge of building/fixing/restoring stuff. It is what I do and who I am. Maybe someday I will tire of building/modding/restoring stuff, but so far at 43, it still is what I enjoy.
That said, I won't 100% rule out owning a Dillon of some sort, but I won't ever spend $1000 to have an auto indexing/casefeeding version. I have much better uses for my limited hobby funds than blowing a grand to make 9mm ammo.
I am not claiming Lee makes better quality progressive presses than Dillon (in fact I am confident Dillon is superior quality). After researching this for awhile now, I am however predicting that "I" can make a $159 Lee progressive spit out more 9mm rounds per hour than I can with a $500 Dillon 550B. Whether anyone agrees with me does not really matter anymore at this point as negative comments will only strengthen my resolve.
