Here comes Santa Claus

[Nuclearcricket]

Don, I got my Dillon before the Blue Press came out, in fact I got it before Dillon went factory direct. I had met Mr Dillon many many years ago and at that time he was pissed about so many different places selling his presses at different priced. I heard him say that he was going to come out with a F@#$ everyone advertising program and it was shortly after that that Dillon went factory direct.
I don't know if a Dillon press is better than the other progressives out on the market but I am pretty sure that they were one of the first progressives designed for moderately high production and low cost. I am pretty sure that at one point more match ammunition had been loaded on Dillon press's than any other press and that may still be true today.
Now if your a number's kind of a guy, this may be of some interest to you. The ram in 1 1/2" in diameter, the handle is 15" long and the opening from shell plate to the bottom of the powder/expander die is about 4". That makes for enough room to load most any standard cartridge you would want to load a bunch of. You can also remove a round at any station for inspection very easily. There is also no reason at all that you could not use this press to just load a box or so of what ever trips your fancy. Caliber conversion kits will run you in the neighbor hood of $45 or so. Less if you just need the powder/expander tube.
Sam