My biggest issue is the priming system. I am going to run off some .40 S&W soon, I'll give priming that another chance. I doubt I'll ever try to run 9 MM due to crimped primer pockets from range pickups mixed in with my brass. While I can swage my pockets, it only takes a single piece of range brass that was crimped and not swaged to cause a stoppage in the loading progression.
Maybe I should put a mark on the primers of my 9 mm cases so I can segregate my pickups into safe to reload, need to swage just in case. There is probably a strategy than will solve the crimped primer issue.
Right now, I have the case feeder working fine, indexing working fine, and I case feed cases to size/deprime, then I use a rcbs universal hand primer to prime, followed by putting the primed cases into the case feed system and adding powder, seating bullets, and using the taper crimp die lee sells. It is working for me. Since Sunday, I've ran off 980 rounds of 9mm after work and before dinner.
I wish this press was set up to prime on the down stroke. That would be so sweet.
On the next batch of .40, I'm going to run a hundred cases through feeder, deprime, size, prime and if it works properly, I'll try going one pass haul donkey. Since as far as I know, .40 s&w isn't crimped, it offers me the best chance of success.
Even if you have to use a modified multi pass method, it beats the heck out of a single stage. If Lee offered to give me my money back on this press, I'd keep the press, it is worth at least what I paid for it.