Personally, I see no value in a turret press not including the Lee. They cost more than a good single stage, I seen little or no operational benefit, and i could use the savings between the single stage and turret presses to buy other reloading goodies.
I stated above that I was thinking of adding the Lee Classic Turret, not sure if this was addressed to that quote or not, but, my thought process on this is as follows:
I currently load on a single stage and batch process everything. I decap, resize and clean and prep my brass in advance, I batch prime on my press and then set them aside. When it comes time to load (add powder and bullet) I do that as a single batch i.e. weigh the powder charge, pour it in the case, set a bullet, seat/crimp the bullet (for pistol/revolver) and the bullet is done.
But, I have recently been using the FCDs that come with some of my rifle dies when loading .223, .243, .270, 30-30, etc.
When using a single stage and the FCD, I have to powder and seat all the bullets then put them in a loading tray and after they are done, then I replace the seating die with the crimp die, and cycle all the bullets through the press again to crimp them.
I think it would be nice to be able to set up both the seating die and the crimping die in the turret, be able to powder, set, seat, then rotate the turret, and crimp, then that round is done.
I know I could set the resizer, expander, seat and crimp dies up all at the same time on the turret, and I may do that at some stage, but right now, being a beginner, I like my process, I am fully confident with the method I use that I will not double-charge or zero charge a case, because I weigh, load powder, add bullet and seat each round individually in one batch step. Adding the crimp die in a turret, allows me to rotate the turret, crimp, and be done.
This is just my thoughts on this. I could buy another single stage instead of a turret, but, maybe sometime in the future I will want to change my process or speed things up a bit and I think having the turret gives me that next phase option. I cant ever see myself with a progressive press, too old fashioned maybe, or I just dont load more than 50-100 rounds at a time so I dont see the value in it.
Dave