After a recent move, I'm rebuilding my favored Lee Classic Turret press with a few upgrade options from Inline Fabrication:
Wow did that turn out to be a crummy cell phone photo. Only a lamp in that room still until I install better lighting.
Point is, the Classic Turret comes in a kit form that just add what dies you need and it's the bare bones of what you need to get started. you need to add some calipers, a bullet puller, and a few other odds and ends but that kit will cover the most bases. With the Pro Auto powder system (add the riser, it really helps and should just be added anyways), and the Safety Primer system that press will easily crank out about two hundred an hour with a steady rhythm not rushing.
Inline Fab offers a reverse indexing kit that kicks out the case after the final crimp. This shoves the cartridge down that little chute into the empty bin. The plan so far (I've not got everything dialed in and setup just yet) is for the empty brass supply to be in the next bin over as pictured and the sack of SNS Casting Hi-Tech coated bullets are resting on a little set of bins just so they are in easy reach. That missing bullet tray option is the only stinker Inline Fab needs to work into this kit. I've installed a roller handle from another press which is why it doesn't look like it fits but it works. The wooden ball handle will eventually wear a blister if you keep at it long enough, ask me how I know...
I took the pic and rambled on a bit because I've found this is my own favored middle ground between slow moving single stage batch processing loading and painful to keep it running in perfect running order progressive reloading. Progressive can really crank out the loaded ammo but wow mess up one thing and you just cranked out a pile of bullet puller fodder. And let one primer miss and you have powder dribble everywhere and you have a puzzle piece system to break apart and clean out. The Classic Turret will never be as fast as any progressive but it's at least half as fast. And it really consolidates a lot of the individual steps of single stage press batch loading. Yes, it takes four pulls of the handle to load one cartridge, but from a single stage that's the same four pulls plus some extra steps done much slower or off the press. And the Classic Turret's auto indexing between stations means unless you short stroke the lever arm you can't mess up. You can, but it's pretty obvious if you do. The Pro Auto doesn't like the bulkier flake and stick powders which is the same for most any powder measure but the smaller flakes like Power Pistol and pretty much any flattened ball or ball powders always flow well in anything. So I stick with the easy flowing stuff if I can.
Just some extra bits to think over in the process.
I'm forgetting to mention a huge point in the Inline Fabrication upgrade... They started offering a mount system that is genius. You buy a mount for each press or gear you want to mount to the riser or they offer a flush mount unit as well and you can keep multiple presses from clogging up your whole bench. I have my Classic Turret setup and my RCBS RC on another mount and they take seconds to hot-swap out. They also offer some kind of rack system that lets you store the unused press but I've not delved into that just yet.
