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The Dillon bench swager is kinda've a steaming pile... RCBS makes a primer pocket swaging tool that uses a die that has a spacing mandrel in it, and a shell holder that has either a large/small pocket swage tool on it, with an extractor collar. .
Different strokes I guess. I find the RCBS tool to be in the category you used to describe the Dillon Super Swage. I have both. The RCBS is gathering rust while I use the Dillon almost weekly. I process both 5.56mm and 7.62 Nato with mine. The only issue I have after 10's of thousands of rounds processed with it is that it takes almost 5 minutes to change from large to small primer pockets or vice versa. Mine is almost 10 years old and still operating with the same punches.
The last time I used my RCBS was to swage 10 pieces of 7.62 Hornady Match brass because I didn't want to change the super swage over for just those 10. I still had to chamfer the edge of the primer pocket because the RCBS tool doesn't radius the edge (unless you have a gorilla operate the press).
Again, to each their own.