So maybe you just like green?
Honestly, I like Dillon's fine. The Dillon 650 was the second finalist behind the Pro 2000 for me.....and it didn't have anything to do with looks. It had to do with simplicity, one time calibration, strength, and easy, cheap caliber changes. Fast Caliber changes aren't nearly so important if you only load 2 or three calibers, but even then they make you smile.....like the whole 10 seconds it takes to change primer size on an RCBS Pro 2000?
If a case feeder is important to you, Dillon makes the best case feeder....easily beating out Hornady's due to the fact it just works, without the babysitting, tweaking, and adjusting to make the Hornady work for each caliber. I'm hoping the new (first) RCBS case feeder is built more like Dillon's, and
I'm all for them taking as much time as they need perfecting it. Hornady shoulda done that.
I didn't want to spend the money for a case feeder, nor did I think I needed one......you see, I wanted to load all my calibers on my ONE press and that gets expensive.......and complicated on a Dillon. If you plan to only reload 2 or three calibers the Dillon is more than fine, but the case collator, IMO, isn't optional since you load cases on the right side where you need to be stroking the press not loading cases by hand.
On Hornady and RCBS presses you load everything with the left hand, so feeders can be optional. At my age I found that I had trouble remembering so many steps, and at the same time giving the all important focus to the important part.....powder charge! So I bought a Hornady Bullet feeder (simplicity was the reason....again having to do with multiple caliber expectations) Then I modded it to suit me.....the idea again was making caliber changes (press and bullet feeder both) in less than 5 minutes.
But if you are just loading a couple of pistol calibers, and you can afford the Dillon and a Mr. Bullet Feeder, it's really hard to do better. And if you build yourself a video powder level monitor, you don't need more than 5 stations.
Still?
Green is an awesome color and 7 stations is cooler than 5! But, No APS primer system is offered, and that's a big disappointment for most of us Pro 2000 users. We all think that's the best feature of all.
I haven't felt the new presses either. I know they are lighter (aluminum) and they are too new for me. There are bugs to work out..........and if RCBS will just send me one gratis like they did Gavin, I'll do a better review than he did on the Pro Chucker 5!
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You asked about the casefeeder timeline? RCBS said in January late summer. Well late summer is nearly gone. But that's normal. Late summer meant October for their last offering, The Summit Press, but this one may be lucky to see the light of day by Christmas......and that's not a safe wager.