CraigC
Sixgun Nut
I disagree about skipping to the progressive. They are great for volume and I plan on adding more to my bench to accompany the Dillon 650 I already have but you still need a single stage or turret for load development and small batches. It takes way too much time and is way too inconvenient to develop loads and do small batches on a progressive. A turret is excellent for this. Unless you just want to crank out a large volume of one load, you need both.
Not really, I find that unless I'm doing a small batch, it's best to do it a stage at a time. Which is how RCBS recommends using the turret.With the turret, you finish a bullet before beginning the next.