I'm on my second progressive Hornady . . . my niece and her husband talked me out of my first one.
I built an automatic case feeder for this one . . . makes things go super fast.
Rather than spend the money on a single stage . . . let me encourage you to go the Hornady progressive route up front. You can do anything on the progressive you can on a single stage and do it so much faster. You can also be a bit more precise . . . the repeatability in my progressive is more predictable than in any of my three other ones.
For example . . . I decap all my MT's then toss them in the cleaner . . . come back and inspect them . . . resize them . . . prime them . . . put them in containers. Then when I'm ready for another batch . . . all I have to do is add powder . . . add bullet . . . crimp . . . done.
On a single stage . . . for each rifle bullet reloaded you handle each case at least twice as many times as with a progressive . . . and if you are doing 500 rounds . . . that's 500 extra steps to get the same result I did . . . with 500 less steps. For .45 ACP . . . I put em on . . . then stack em in the containers . . . handle em twice in the progressive . . . single stage means you handle each one 5 times at least before you stack em in the containers.
It does not take long for a single stage reloader to get old hat.
If you do go progressive . . . personal opinion I would not buy a Lee . . . I had one . . . never again. Hornady and Dillon are great products.
May God bless,
Dwight