Oh, I reload now, and have for about 30 years now. Saves me the money to buy more guns

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Grab your socks...ready for this? I've reloaded all that time with the Lee hand press. Takes a bit of work on rifle brass to resize, but it can be done just fine.
However, you aren't kidding about slow; I would only reccomend it to others that enjoy reloading as a hobby in itself. After tumbling the cases, reloading 100 pistol rounds takes close to 2 hours, and can go to three easily if the primer pockets are nasty.
However, I'm a rifle shooter that is switching over to handguns...there just aren't any long ranges left in my area, and its a lot easier to load up the car to go shoot handguns for an afternoon then it is to haul all the bench rest stuff out.
Loading the occasional 200 rounds of pistol up was fairly rare, so the time it took wasn't too bad. And of course, 40 rounds of rifle is an afternoon of shooting, so the slow loader wasn't really a factor.
Now however I find myself looking real hard at a bench press after all this time. I've used them at friends houses of course, and now that I'm switching over to pistol it sure seems to make a lot of sense. I just don't know about the progressive ones out there; I hear good things about Dillon but the idea of so much automation in the reloading process gives this old rifle reloader mental fits. The idea of not weighing each powder charge and bullet...oh my. I'm sort of leaning towards a turrent press, as I figure there is still enough manual control to keep me happy, and it should speed things up quite a bit. I'm planning on shooting about 500 rounds of pistol a month, so unless I want to live at my reloading bench something needs to happen. I'm looking the hardest at the Lyman turrent press right now; I don't want one that auto indexes (or do I?), and while I like Lee equipment just fine, I think I may want to step up a bit for a bench press. RCBS is of course very nice, but I think I'm mostly paying for the name on their stuff.
Oh, and I'm planning on using Unique (powder), as I've used it for .380, .357 and .44 loads for decades, and it has always treated me well in pistols. As I get more into the handguns I may try some of the more specific powders, but of course thats half the fun of it

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Any advice on good bench presses?