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I have Lee, Hornady and Dillon in 45 ACP. I started with the Lee just after Obama got elected as that is all I could find. I had heard that they were low in cost and one got what they paid for (not true). I later bought a set of Hornady dies and loaded a big batch of ammo with both for testing. They both shot the same (very well). I bought a Dillon 650 several years ago and got the Dillon dies with the press. They load excellent ammo as well but I can't tell any difference in the ammo loaded with the three different dies sets.

Customer service is great with all three.

One area that gives Lee the nod is their factory crimp die. I get about 8-10% (sometime more) rounds that will not gauge once they are loaded and the only way I can get them to gauge is to run them through the Lee Factory Crimp die. Those rounds may have functioned just fine but I am not taking ammo to a match that has not been gauged (learned that lesson at the first sanctioned match years ago).

Don't get excited about the different seating plugs. I shoot a lot of semi wad cutters along with round nose bullets but have found that the seating plug for the semi wad cutter bullet did not work well on any of the die sets. I get better results using the seating plug for round nose bullets when loading both for both semi wad cutter and round nose bullets.