I find it very odd that those that want to own high quality tools that have a price tag that goes along with the quality constantly have to defend their desire to own such things. The truth is, if you generally run approx. 50 rounds of handloads at a time you can put up with tools that work but have their quirks. That all changes when the production lot is several thousand rounds. For some of us part of the joy of handloading is making a large quantity and using well made, heavy duty tools.
On the subject of universal decapping dies I purchased one because everyone on this and other forums gush on and on about how useful they are. I even added a C-press to the bench as a dedicated decapping station. In the 4 years I have had this arrangement I have used it to decap about 100 pcs of the roughly 30K handloads that have passed through my bench. Unless you wet tumble brass, use a lot of crimped military brass or have a priming issue with your press there really isn't a need for this thing at all.
When I was a kid we spent umpeen hours punching out primers from military crimped 30-06 brass, one at a time, using a pin and a hammer. Still have this device, a banged up pin and a metal case holding fixture, mounted to a piece of real 2x4 lumber. Doing it that way sucked back then and still sucks today. Inexpensive and it works but nothing you would want to do if you had a pile of 5000 pcs of brass to decap. Once the primer was out we then used a Lyman handheld crimp remover tool. Doing that operation sucked also. This is the reason I use a motorized Case-Mate.
