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<blockquote data-quote="okietom" data-source="post: 1846853" data-attributes="member: 18710"><p>I have read a lot of advice about starting with a single stage and then going to progressive and it isn't bad advice. I also think that one could start with the progressive and do well. With the 550 you can take one case all the way around without starting another one. I do this when setting dies on my 550. I recently upgraded my 550 to the "B" version and the plate for the powder rod raised the shellplate .060" and I am having to reset all of the dies on my tool heads. </p><p></p><p>I started with a rockcrusher kit and several years later got the 550. Even if you have a 550 I think that you would want to have a single stage press for many different reasons. If you buy a new gun that you don't have a shellplate for you could get dies and start loading for it before your conversion kits came. You could even decap before polishing with a single stage and a universal decapping die. There are other uses for another press to compliment the Dillon. I am weighing the usefulness of a Lee Hand press so I could decap in my easy chair. What I am saying is that you might start with the Dillon and get the single stage later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="okietom, post: 1846853, member: 18710"] I have read a lot of advice about starting with a single stage and then going to progressive and it isn't bad advice. I also think that one could start with the progressive and do well. With the 550 you can take one case all the way around without starting another one. I do this when setting dies on my 550. I recently upgraded my 550 to the "B" version and the plate for the powder rod raised the shellplate .060" and I am having to reset all of the dies on my tool heads. I started with a rockcrusher kit and several years later got the 550. Even if you have a 550 I think that you would want to have a single stage press for many different reasons. If you buy a new gun that you don't have a shellplate for you could get dies and start loading for it before your conversion kits came. You could even decap before polishing with a single stage and a universal decapping die. There are other uses for another press to compliment the Dillon. I am weighing the usefulness of a Lee Hand press so I could decap in my easy chair. What I am saying is that you might start with the Dillon and get the single stage later. [/QUOTE]
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