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G.A. Heath wrote:If you keep things simple you can load one cartridge at a time on a progressive press. So if you want to load in bulk then a progressive press is the best way to go from the start. Otherwise if you buy a single stage or turret press to learn and then get a progressive later then you're wasting money.

Not really, I see your point but there are times I prefer a single stage (like depriming since I do that prior to cleaning and when loading rounds like 375 H&H. It also comes in handy when you have a stuck case.

Anyone can handload but avoiding catastrophic mistakes is the difficult part. You always hear people saying "I've been loading for xxx years...." but that means nothing. It only takes one mistake or some lack of knowledge to cause a catastrophic failure that blows up your rifle. One of the gun mags recently had an article about this with some stories of mistakes (some that caused death). Loading pistol calibers is easy compared to rifle loading. I would start with a single stage and go from there once you have loaded enough to get proficient. There is a lot of knowledge needed for just having the ability to size properly and my guess is that many loaders don't even know enough to do that properly. Start small and read all you can, especially on the mistakes (I tend to learn more from those).