No wars big guy,
To each his own. For me, doing the indexing insures I check powder levels each time I index (I use the just powdered round to index) and I leave the powdering stop pin out of the press plate for easy brass removal. I usually scale every 10 to 20 rounds-yes I'm anally paranoid... A hot scares the hell out of me and squibber would just flat piss me off. thank GOD I have experienced neither.

Oh I hear ya....I don't ever want a "hot" load ever! I can only imagine the carnage. I check every 20 for the first 100-150 rounds and then I go to evey 50 rounds are so. I don't have much change so I am never more than .01 or .02 so I feel pretty good about it.

I have not purchased the powder check die yet... I would have but the reviews are not very good and they guys who have them say the are more trouble that they are worth.

I am a Dillon fan. I have never reloaded with a LNL. I use a Dillon 1050 and 650. I have had absolutely zero problems with my powder measure or de-priming. My powder measures stay dead on. I can't say anything about the LNL because I haven't used one. As far as the auto indexing, i like it. It is almost impossible to screw it up unless you work at it. Crank one, drop one and repeat. I wish everything I own worked as reliably as my Dillon.

I can't speak to Red at all, except to say folks like em.

Can't speak to an auto indexing press at all.

I have had the same Dillon RL550b for almost 25 years and I've run 45-50k rounds thru it and had one no powder squib load. My fault.

I'm gonna be getting a second one so I can keep one set up for each large and small primers.

I load .223, .308, .44 mag. 45acp, 9mm, 10mm, 38super, 40sw, 400 Cor-Bon,
38/357mag.

I can't afford to change to red and wouldn't want to anyway.:)

Definitely a good read DaFadda, thank you. Curious as to which way you went red or blue? I am leaning blue after researching for some time however it is certainly cheaper to start with red.

Good to see this thread still getting use....
You know what they say," Once you go blue you never go back"

Lol. That very well may be the case. The cost difference right now is the only reason I am favoring red.

I use a Lee Classic Turret press and a Classic Cast Powder Measure.

Given that I bang out about 500 or so rounds per month across 11 different calibers, it keeps my equipment costs down: A new $12 turret.

IMO, the benefits of a progressive press outweigh the cost only if you are knocking out 1000+ rounds per month.

Agree I shoot about 5K rounds a year of 45 and probably 1K of 10MM. I used to load that on a single stage and it took me all winter to re-stock but it was manageable in the cold dark winters when you couldn't do anything else.

I only load in the winter months.

Now with the 650 I can load all my years worth of shooting in a weekend if I really wanted to. I drag it over 2-3 weekends so I have something to tinker with and hide in my "cave"

It is a matter of cost vs. time spent. Any press will do the job and well with no issues but when I got my Dillon I accomplished the same goal just A LOT faster. I was lucky my parents gifted me the money to pay for 80% of press. If not for there generosity I would still have my single stage set up and still be doing just fine too.