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I have used a Rock Chucker for over 30 years, been through a couple different versions, started with the aluminum one, had a couple different intermediate ones and settled on the heavy, solid cast iron one. It's the standard everyone compares the rest to. The RC will do everything the lighter presses will do, but is also able to do heavy duty forming of cases. for $50 more than a cheap press, it's not even a decision, in my opinion. Just go with the better choice, the cost difference isn't significant. If you need the volume of a turret or progressive press, that's an entirely different decision; in my case I have a Dillon 550 that I can use for volume loading. In reality, the Dillon is somewhat of a waste for me, I set up and run a thousand or two of a caliber very occasionally, could do that on the RCBS, just take a bit more time. Not to influence your decision, but if you decide to go with the RC, I have one at the moment that a friend brought over and asked me to sell as he was getting out of reloading. It looks like new, and has the priming tool, including automatic feed tubes in both small and large. I doubt he loaded 100 shells on it. I'd sell it for $140 shipped. If you don't want the priming setup on it, $125 shipped. If you're like me, I prefer to prime with the lee autoprime to get a better feel for the primer seating pressure. I'll post an ad in the classifieds with pictures, and give you first shot at it if you reply that you're interested. dave
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