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The presses I have used were a lee classic cast turret, a pair of lee pro 1000's, a dillon square deal b, a lyman all american, and a pair of phelps,

I started with the lee turret first, loading pistol first, then rifle,
Then breifly used the phelps, then the lyman, then I got the lee progressives.

What is on the bench now is the dillon square deal b, and the lee classic cast turret.
Both of these will load pistol ammo, by putting a case in and a bullet on the top.

The diffrence is the amount of repetive motion required.
With a full shell plate on the dillon 1 pull gives 1 loaded round, then feed brass with one hand and a bullet with the other and pull the handle again for another loaded round.

The lee turret works on top of the ram, insert a case and 2 pulls later place a bullet on the case,
Third pull seats it, then 4th brings you back to put aa new case in to do it again.

Before the dillon, I loaded a lot of pistol ammo on the lee turret.

After the dillon, the lee turret is used for rifle.

If I didn't get the square deal b in a trade like I did, I would have got a 550 or 650 instead.
As it can use standard dies, where square deal dies are proprietary.

So after a normal loading session of filling up a 30 cal ammo can, my arm and shoulder has had less motion with the dillon, but speedwise the lee turret can easily run 200/hr but that is 800 pulls on the lever to get there, vs 200 on the dillon.

Both the lee turret and the square deal are small footprint presses and don't take up much bench space.

The square deal is for pistol calibers, but for my uses I did not see that as a limitation as I can load rifle on the lee turret. For a single press only it is a limitation.
But the trade for it in 3 calibers with 3 toolheads was a good one for me, so that's why I went that route.