Ditto to all of the above. I still have the original Lee Turret I learned on almost 40 years ago. I've long since switched to Dillon but I was a seasoned reloader before making that switch. Not saying you can't learn on a Dillon, just that I'm glad I didn't. Learn to walk before you try to run.
I had Lasik and loved it. Perfect eyesight.........................................for about 10 years. I'm now back to needing glasses for close up stuff. I've got a set of Wiley X dialed in for pistol front sight distance. I wouldn't change a thing.
This is WAY out of my lane but I was around when SASS first started rolling out Wild Bunch to the masses. One think I can tell you for absolute certain is they envisioned Wild Bunch targets, both rifle and pistol, to be set further out than regular Cowboy matches. That may have changed over the years, but that was the original concept/intent.
Spirit of the Game. It took me a very long time (and a lot of prodding from Phantom) to understand the Spirit of the Game penalty as it's currently written. One of the most common mistakes I see here on The Wire and on other forms of social media is people saying they'd assess a Spirit of the Game penalty for someone acting contrary to the cowboy way. That's NOT a Spirit of the Game penalty. But if I were SASS King I'd change that. I'd make the Spirt of the Game penalty description exactly how the name implies. I'd then create a different penalty for what's currently described as Spirit of the Game. Maybe call it the Gamer penalty.