Things to like? Able to change shot (not so often) and powder (very often when dialing in a load drop) bushings, ability to use Hornady or MEC powder bushings if you don't have the whole P-W kit of them, really nice prime/deprime cycle.
Things to dislike? Ergonomics. You've got to keep your right hand on the operating lever, so to do most anything you reach underneath with your left hand, to the right, then arch back to the left to get a ejected hull or to load a new hull, constantly scraping your left hand against the primer eject tray mechanism. There's also essentially no "set points". A MEC 600 Jr cams over, and you know that each station (except primer seating) requires a full camming cycle. The P-W well.... you lift it this high to move from this station to that, but then that high to move to this station over here. Too high and you hit the de-prime rod, too low and you hit the primer seating device. Then when your cycle is done to the left you have to come all the way back to the right. The manual is poorly written, also, and was very little help if I wasn't very mechanically inclined to begin with. The reason you need that full-length sizing die is that the final crimp station crushes the bejesus out of the top of the shell, and then you gotta have the hull sides supported when the eject rod smashes the shell headed south out of the machine (which btw, you have to reach under with you left hand to catch, scraping it again on the ejected primer tray....)
Customer service at P-W is superb, however. Even on a weekend!
