Everyone has given you great info except for one item, a mounting surface for your press. You need a sturdy table. Something that won't flex. I personally use the Harbor Freight $129 on sale table and don't care how much I drill it. Also consider adapters to mount the press to so that you can switch out presses as need be. When I started I bought the Lee single stage kit and you get a scale, etc. I then bought an electronic scale and calibrated it and it is just as accurate as the balance beam scale. I don't think that a progressive is going to give you the accuracy that a single stage will give you as you are out for accuracy. Individual weighing of each powder, not doing 4-5 things at once. I also recommend a case gauge for each caliber you are shooting. These really help set your dies. For pistol I use a Lee Turret. I don't reload the volume that I need a progressive. If you go progressive stay away from Lee as I don't hear anything good about their progressive presses. Dillon of course is the big name here. Finally, safety- wear safety glasses. I don't wear hearing protection- maybe I should but I don't. When buying primers you should try a few brands. CCI and Winchester tend to be harder than Federal and Remington (and harder to seat too). Find what your rifle likes and stick with those. I pretty much substitute one brand for another but never do that if you do shotshells. Everything the exact in shotshells with no substitution. Record everything to a notebook as it doesn't take long before you forget what each load was. You will also need a chrono. Finally, sales tax on the internet from all of the big chains is now the norm. We just can't keep the tax man out of our pockets. Youtube has some great reloading help too so even though they are anti 2A there is some great material out there. Best of luck. One final thought, don't work in the garage. You need a normalized temp to do this stuff and make sure that nobody bothers you when you are reloading. A double charge will kill you and a squibb can do the same.