Loo king for recs in presses. Dies. Manuals. Etc. Starting from ground up. Looking to load precision. 308 and 6.5cm. And bulk on 5.56. .45. .9mm.12 gauge. Pleaswe toss suggestions.
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I say go for it and jump in with both feet and get a DIllon 550 to do everything, especially since you plan to do bulk 223 and pistol. I started with a single stage and now I load both all my precision rifle as well as pistol/223 on the Dillon. Single stage doesn't even get used, and I couldn't imagine trying to do pistol on it.
You'll need some basic learning on how the Dillon operates, Youtube videos and articles available to help with that. If you're mechanically minded it is all pretty common sense.
Lots of learning to do on reloading and how to do it right, but that's the same whether you're single stage or progressive.
Hunt down a used Dillon 550 kit with as many toolheads, powder measures and caliber conversion kits as you can find. They come up for sale periodically and a kit will save you a bunch of money. Don't believe the "you need single stage to do precision rifle" comments you hear out there, it's not true. Guys are loading and winning in PRS and F-Class on Dillon presses.
That's what I like to hear, would much rather have a setup that I can feed to my precision rifles, hog AR's, and the like. Just want to buy once cry once from the get go. Just so many fucking options. Hornady AP no good? RCBS progressive?
There are other presses, but I wasn't kidding when I said every competitor in the action sports uses Dillon.