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Dillon 650xl is my next purchase. I'm sure they will all work but if you want the best.....go blue.
Start where everyone else does, with a single stage press. A Rock Chucker kit is a great way to go, add a powder trickler to it and you're pretty well set. You can add a case trimmer and other stuff later but he'll have what he needs to get going. I do admit, large batch reloading sucks using a single stage press. After about the first 100 rounds of a 500 round batch of your flavor of pistol round or .223 the fun factor drops significantly. It's a trade off to being able to fine tune loads though, because I'd hate to fight using a progressive press using older stick powders like IMR7828 that meter terribly and getting them in the +-.1 grain area for hunting loads.
Sounds like you're going to need 2 setups, coach. Quote from: jrebel on October 28, 2016, 06:43:28 AMDillon 650xl is my next purchase. I'm sure they will all work but if you want the best.....go blue.I thought about this, but then couldn't talk myself into it as I would really only be loading a few rifle cartridges at a time now and then. This seems overly complicated for something like that, not to mention the price. I'm assuming these are more intended for loading pistol ammo or .223 or that type where you're going to be doing more plinking.