I know what you mean about being "passively anti-Lee". I am too. The collet neck die and Perfect powder measure are the only Lee products I own. They seem cheaply made, but by George, they just work.

A word of advice on the Lee collet neck dies though.......to get the best performance out of them, the internal working parts (collet and collet sleeve) may need to be polished up a bit with somesandpaper. 400 to 600 grit wet/dry should be sufficient. In operation, the collet fingers are forced up into the collet sleeve, thereby squeezing the collet fingers down around the case neck, thus sizing the neck to proper dimensions around a mandrel. The problem is that sometimes there are enough tooling marks (and evenburrs) left over from the manufacturing process that the collet fingers can't slide smoothly into the collet sleeve. Ipolish the tooling marks awayfrom the collet fingersand from around the mouth of the collet sleeve and I also apply a dab of grease around the mouth of the sleeve. After doing this, I've never had one of these dies fail to work properly. It shouldn't be necessary in the first place, but we're talking about Lee, so don't be surprised if you have to do this. It's really quite simple, though, and won't take but just a few minutes.