Here's your dilemma:
1. You have several pistol rounds, which suggests a progressive and the Hornady is an excellent one. You also have a rifle round of a caliber that suggests a AK47 or SKS rifle, which also suggests a Hornady.
2.With the .308, I don't know what rifle, but that caliber suggests accuracy, which suggests a single stage or perhaps a Redding turret for long range, such as 600 yards. The Hornady is going to be just as good at any range less and may be just as good at 600. I know this because I reload 30.06 on a Hornady LnL, a round I'm loading to .308 ballistics since I'm shooting it in a autoloader (M1). It shoots MOA all day long out of that gun.
2. But your rounds per month is really low. For the quantity you're loading, you're going to spend $350 bucks or so for a Hornady, then each for the calibers that have different sized bases, you're going to have to buy extra shellplates ($25), expanders ($8) and and Lock N Load bushings ($10) for your caliber conversions. So if you have a worst case scenario, your caliber conversion could cost as much as $43 times 5 calibers for a total of $215. A good hunk of cabbage to reload so few rounds. Be aware the Hornady can load 400 rounds in an hour going SLOWLY and with no casefeeder, no extra primer tubes, no automated primer tube loading.
3. You round count suggests a Redding T7, probably the best of all the old style cast iron turret presses. That said, I've owned and loaded on a turret press like that before. It is a slow, tedious loading process not much better than a single stage without Lock N Load Bushings in my book. I really don't like them, though they are a bit better than loading on a single stage that doesn't have the option of a lock n load bushing. This is just my opinion, but to me, the Redding T7 and other turret designs of that style are obselete designs and not a good value for the money.
Before I bought one of these and spent this kind of money, I'd get one of those new Lee Classic Cast presses. An excellent design and with a lock N load bushing conversion, is as fast as the Redding,with better, cleaner primer handling. And, should you get the Hornady later, the Lee Classic cast single stage is a good companion for the Hornady.
4. But you're reloading pistol and rifle, so that'd be kinda slow on a single stage. I know you're wanting to look at only those two presses, but if I'm to be honest, I don't think either one is a good choice value wise for your application and neither is a single stage.
I own the Hornady and it's a great press. But for the amount you're reloading, it's way more money than the amount of rounds you're loading. It would take you a good while to recoop the costs of the press in savings. Money you could spend on rifle parts or reloading components.
This is just an opinion, based on reloading on the Hornady and owning lots of rifles and pistols and reloading for a bunch of them. (I own two gun safes and need to buy another soon.) I genuinely and sincerely feel, based on the number of calibers and round count, you'd be better off with a Lee Classic Turret press with a Pro Auto Disk, a Safety Prime kit and add a Redding, RCBS or Hornady powder measure for extruded rifle powders. I just added one for several reasons:
A. It's an excellent cast iron press, runs smooth as glass.
B. It cranks out 200 plus rounds per hour, plenty fast enough for reloading for most of my less than 100 rounds at a time milsurps and various cast load experiments I often have going.
C. Caliber changes are a die set and a $10 turret. You can add additional risers and powder measures at $36 (for both) if you wish, but it's not needed and is a luxury.
D. If you have a collector's FFL, you can get Midway's discount and have the whole setup in hand for less than $200. If not, it's about fifty bucks more.
E. The rounds I've loaded on it so far are more accurate than the rounds loaded on loaded on the old style turret press I owned.
F. It's automatic advance, a good thing for loading pistol.
G. It's mechanically simple and easy to setup. If you take a little time with it smoothing up the sharp edges, etc., it's a really smooth running little press.
So my suggestion, based on the number of calibers and your round count, is to look at the Lee Classic Cast turret press. If you decide to go with the Hornady later, you can use this press for your low round count milsurps, load experimentation or you can easily sell it on ebay for about what you paid for it. Of course, you can do that with most reloading equipment. Just be sure to keep your boxes in another cardboard box to keep them looking nice.
Here's a couple links to an articles you may be interested in. It compares the Lee to turrets like the RCBS and Redding.
http://surplusrifle.com/reviews2006/leeturretpress/index.asp
http://www.realguns.com/archives/122.htm
I hope this is useful information,
Dave
