My loyalty to Blue is a very common story. As a young competitive shooter, freshly married, with a growing family money was very tight. I was putting up hay, cutting wood, welding plus my 8-5 gig, anything to just get by.Keep in mind this is late seventies early eighties. RCBS, Lyman, and Lee ruled the roost. But their equipment was so high priced and customer service so arrogant at RCBS I simply could not afford it. Along came Mike Dillion who decided to go gloves off with the green gorilla in the room. He came out with some very innovative equipment. Now to be clear, at this point his presses did not even have a removable head. Long story short I tore his equipment up a time or two as a direct result-of my ineptitude and ignorance of all things reloading. No internet back then, I would call up Dillion, confess my sins, explain what I broke and ask to purchase a replacement piece. The answer is The exact same today, as it was back then. You broke it, we don’t care how. What is your mailing address? we will send you a new one. Nobody in the industry did that back then. Dillion was new kid and had to do something to lure away long time green and red users to a then unheard of system. Then he came out with the removable head. The pundits crucified him. Much like the uproar over breech loading a rifle vs muzzle loading. It was ahead of its time, claims against reliability,accuracy and functionality turned out to be false. The actual shooters and end users were ecstatic. The rest is as they say, is History. I have a smattering of red and yellow but my bench is basically blue plus a bit of green!
