Rfwobbly is right
The problem is that to load, you need a press (unless you go with the Lee Load-all, which uses a mallet to drive the process). And the press is usually the centerpiece of your loading bench and the most expensive part, to boot.
So, here's the trick: Buy the press you will eventually grow into, but not outgrow.
Here's my aproach. It is not the only approach. It may not be the right approach for you. But it would have been the right approach for me 35 years ago. It just took me this long to figure it out.
Take what you shoot now and triple it. That is just to estimate what quantity you will be loading. Most shooters do increase their volume after they start reloading. There are exceptions. If you will be one, adjust the tripling to double or 1.5x, whatever your self-knowledge tells you. Find a press that will handle that quantity and buy it and a set of dies. Whatever money you have left, use to get the couple of other pieces to get you loading, but never buy anything you will have to replace.
It is the approach that informed my post here,l entitled "The Budget Beginner's Loading Bench you will never outgrow"
http://rugerforum.net/reloading/293...you-will-never-outgrow-novice-handloader.html
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There is a sticky thread at the sop of this forum with some GREAT posts.
In the front of every loading manual (except the "One Book-One Caliber" series are chapters describing the loading process. Each manual, being authored and edited by different people is written in a different style with different emphasis, so buy or borrow (public library, perhaps?) several, and read.
A couple years ago, I wrote my "10 Advices" treatise (and have been tweaking it ever since)
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=430391
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my "10 Advices for the novice reloader" post is #13.
Good luck. Good shopping, Always wear eye protection, especially when working with primers and don't pinch your fingers in your press. Be safe, always, all ways.
Lost Sheep