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The proprietary dies and restriction to straight wall case calibers turns a lot of people off (including myself for years).

I got lucky (again) and found one with all the caliber conversions/dies I needed for my pistol calibers. Bought it dirt cheap (I think like $250) from a guy that just bought a 650 and it came with a 5 gallon bucket of 9mm cases

I ended up buying a brand new one still in the box from a guy that won it, and sold my ‘well used’ one with the extra 9mm caliber conversion/set of dies for what I bought the new one for during COVID. I was going to keep two SDB’s set up, but decided the bench space was a better trade off.

the only thing that makes me nervous about the DAA case feeder is that sometimes when loading 223, if the case isn’t seated all the way into the shell plate perfectly, it will hit the bottom of my resizing die and jam up the press until I realign. I haven’t reloaded .300BO on it yet, so not sure if it happens w/that caliber too...but it does happen w/30-06 and .308 sometimes as well.

<blockquote data-quote="76Too" data-source="post: 7439791" data-attributes="member: 41442">The proprietary dies and restriction to straight wall case calibers turns a lot of people off (including myself for years).I got lucky (again) and found one with all the caliber conversions/dies I needed for my pistol calibers. Bought it dirt cheap (I think like $250) from a guy that just bought a 650 and it came with a 5 gallon bucket of 9mm cases <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😂" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" title="Face with tears of joy&nbsp; &nbsp; :joy:" data-shortname=":joy:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />I ended up buying a brand new one still in the box from a guy that won it, and sold my ‘well used’ one with the extra 9mm caliber conversion/set of dies for what I bought the new one for during COVID. I was going to keep two SDB’s set up, but decided the bench space was a better trade off.the only thing that makes me nervous about the DAA case feeder is that sometimes when loading 223, if the case isn’t seated all the way into the shell plate perfectly, it will hit the bottom of my resizing die and jam up the press until I realign. I haven’t reloaded .300BO on it yet, so not sure if it happens w/that caliber too...but it does happen w/30-06 and .308 sometimes as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="76Too, post: 7439791, member: 41442"] The proprietary dies and restriction to straight wall case calibers turns a lot of people off (including myself for years). I got lucky (again) and found one with all the caliber conversions/dies I needed for my pistol calibers. Bought it dirt cheap (I think like $250) from a guy that just bought a 650 and it came with a 5 gallon bucket of 9mm cases 😂 I ended up buying a brand new one still in the box from a guy that won it, and sold my ‘well used’ one with the extra 9mm caliber conversion/set of dies for what I bought the new one for during COVID. I was going to keep two SDB’s set up, but decided the bench space was a better trade off. the only thing that makes me nervous about the DAA case feeder is that sometimes when loading 223, if the case isn’t seated all the way into the shell plate perfectly, it will hit the bottom of my resizing die and jam up the press until I realign. I haven’t reloaded .300BO on it yet, so not sure if it happens w/that caliber too...but it does happen w/30-06 and .308 sometimes as well. [/QUOTE]

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