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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
Friend of mine just got started a couple of months ago with a Dillon 550. A month later he used a 650 that a friend had and is now switching up to the more progressive press.
Hard to beat a Dillon. They are not cheap but have a lifetime warranty. Any issue, send it back and they will overhaul/replace for free.
Mike Dillon is a pilot, flies a former US Navy Pinto and Huey for fun, and is hangared 200 feet from us. Great guy.
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Yep, a Dillion 650 with case feeder is what Paul should buy if he intends to reload and shoot a bunch of rounds per year. I love my 100 round poor man's case feeder and the auto index on my Lee Loadmaster and I can load 500 rounds per hour with it. The Dillon 550's are obviously very solid well built presses, but with the extra steps of manually loading a case and indexing them, they are not as fast as a 650.
I don't want this to turn into a Lee vs Dillon debate as Dillons are very well built, but I will simply say that with
my mechanical aptitude and my years of automated machine design, I am very happy with my $220 Lee Loadmaster that came wth one set of dies new. I have loaded about 6000 rounds with it this summer and it runs flawlessly now.
Lee Load Master 45 Colt Reloading Pistol Kit $220.00
I can load just as fast as my friends who have the auto case loading $1000 Dillon 650's. Having said that, I would not hesitate to recommend the Dillon 650 to "most" folks interested in buying a press to reload large quantities of ammo.