…made me realize I don’t use mine very much.
I am OCD on some parts of loading. All brass gets de-primed and cleaned before sizing. Anything requiring lube gets cleaned again before loading. Slows down loading on a progressive, but still possible.
Powder charges can be dropped and not weighed. No problem there.
Bullets get seated halfway, then I lower the ram, spin the cartridge 180 degrees in the shell holder and finish seating. Not possible on a progressive. Crimping is always done separately.
But the primers…. I hate losing primers. There is nothing worse than 99 loaded rounds and a primer that has disappeared. Primers that get damaged by the press are worse than lost primers. Willie Nelson’s Rule is that a lost golf ball eventually become a stolen golf ball, and the same should apply to primers, so I can get over the lost ones. But the damaged ones taunt me forever.
Reading the recent threads taught me that others have the same primer problems with progressives. I thought it was just me.
I am going to try to use the progressives more this year. I know I can learn and do better.
Tony