You have to give us more information. If that price is for the press alone it's way too expensive. If it's for the Rock Chucker Supreme Master kit it's just about right since you're not paying S&H but it would be a better deal @ $25 less.
The advantage speed wise is that you do not have to change dies out. Also, every few pulls produces a full bullet. Normally with my single stage, I will do lots of 50....so once cleaned and deprimed, I size and reprime 50, then charge 50, then seat bullet on 50, then crimp 50 if you do that stage. Except at the clean, resized and reprimed stage, it isnt convenient to halt if suddenly you need to with 50 charged cases or whatever. While this can obviously be planned around, the Turret (and other types, like progressive) dump out a complete round, then move to the next. As long as you stop at the end of a round, (every 4 pulls or less depending) you stop with a complete bullet.
Same here. Did buy a really nice Redding die, really nice for a special purpose resizing....But, it cost more than the deluxe carbide 4 die Lee set I have that turns out excellent results. As to naysayers on the Lee Safety Scale, other than the inherent slowness of using any beam type scale, its results in terms of accuracy are stunning. All at a little over $20.
That's what attracted me to it. You just end with a complete round, within 4 pulls or less if you need or want, or HAVE to stop! Sometimes I do use the single stage press, If I am only pre conditioning brass to charge and seat later, I like the single stage. I deprime and clean before hand, then I can quickly resize on the upstroke, reprime on the down (using the Lee safety prime, very quick) then next case. I think the turret is a good first press, but I do like having choices! Even the basic 4 die turret looks plenty strong enough, and much cheaper than the Classic turret, whose onlyu difference I understand is the steel moving parts are heavier down below, but same press on top.
