I don't have a problem with recommending Dillon or Hornady, and I love my little Lee APP too, but none of them are as perfect as you guys insinuate. The Dillon 650 I've used is pretty good, as good as the RCBS 2000, plus Dillon makes a great case collator, and RCBS doesn't. But other than that either of my RCBS presses load as well as the 650, and the Pro Chucker is the smoothest rotating plate there is....smoother than the Hornady even, and doesn't require mods to keep powder in shallow cases from ejecting kernals all over the shell plate.....unless you stroke really slow. The Pro 2000 did the same thing as the Dillon, so I had to fiddle with a lighter ball and spring.....but we learn to make our machines sing......all of them....none of them are perfect.
The big problem I see is with people being less tolerant than they ought to be and less helpful. I read all the trash talk about the Pro Chucker's primer feed system, and because of it, I was on the sidelines for a year before I bought the Pro Chucker.....but I finally caved when RCBS beefed up their primer shuttles and started selling die plates without having to buy ANOTHER powder measure with it.....me and RCBS went around and around about that.....finally convincing them that selling the bottom end of the of the Uniflow, with case-activation linkage separately, was the answer.....hell....I already had 4 Uniflows!
But I finally bought one, having to do it the hard way....PC5 and a PC5 to PC7 conversion kit. (it was during the last big shortage on guns and reloading and I couldn't find a PC7.) It was the SEVEN stations...powder cop...separate seating/crimping....M die.....bullet feed die...yup all of them.
You know what? I have yet to break my first PC 7 primer shuttle (2 years).....but I also know not to force a progressive when it acts funny....people break Dillons trying to use force when something isn't smooth too. And Dillons priming system wasn't perfect either.....that's why they dumped the 650 rotary and started making 750's with the old 550 priming system. ( I like the 650 rotary....but it's not idiot-proof....not unlike RCBS's new primer system.) The first time I saw a 650, it was demo'd by a friend. In two minutes flat we were crawling all over the floor picking up primers.....not perfect when imperfect people are around......know anybody perfect? Same with the early adopters of the Pro Chucker.....not perfect....bulls in man caves, who broke shuttles. Better than lighting tubes of primers in Dillons using the same force when you shouldn't.
Be more tolerant....we don't all have to buy blue. Although some disagree, we don't all have to vote blue either.....it's ok to be different.