I bought two area 419 presses about a month ago. The zero Press is an incredible piece of machinery. Overall, the benefit for me is that it uses a Tourette design so I can set up nine dies one time and leave them set up pretty much forever. Perhaps I may need to dial it up or down 1000, but they will remain in the press and really nothing seems to change between times that I come to use it.
For me, I reload for lots of different cartridges. Lots of my friends set up something like a Dylan 750 to do high volume, but that’s only if they’re reloading for one or two cartridges. If you’re making 6.5 Creedmoor today and six Dasher tomorrow and 300 WinMag the next day and 280 Ackley improved the next day, Dylan really isn’t the right tool.
Most processes suffer from concentricity issues from the Tourette moving around. Although I haven’t found bullet concentricity to be the most critical number to measure for accurate ammo, it does matter to me. The good news is, I’ve had zero issues with the with the zero Press.
So overall, I am in love with this thing. Mostly because it is a time saver and not necessarily because the ammo is any better than an then on a Rock trucker. That’s true of most presses, though. You aren’t buying it for more precision, necessarily, it’s really about convenience and allowing you to reload faster.
Although it is extremely expensive for a Press, for me, it ends up being worth it.