I was at Bass Pro yesterday, I wanted some case lube and decided to browse the reloading section. I stumbled on a guy looking at a Hornady press kit and we talked for a while. He was getting it for his son as a present and was wondering if it was a good deal (he and his son had no experience in reloading). Since I am relatively new to reloading, only a couple of years and lots of discussions here and with a coworker who has been reloading for close to 40 years, it appears that he was comfortable with getting the single stage kit instead of the progressive next to it, I explained the difference between the two. I did stress that it is important to understand each step of the process and the single stage press helps develop that and minimizes the potential for a big oops.

As a side note I also let him know that now is not the optimum time to get into reloading as most everything is hard and expensive to get.