The manual recommendation is right on. Read a couple of manual's from cover to cover a couple of times. This time spent is the best advice you can get.

After you fully understand what you need, you are ready to go. My advice is to look in the classified's section of some different forum's. You can find some great deal's there. Also contact some mfrs., they sell a lot of reconditioned equipment at a great price. I just bought a blemished Lyman Orange Crusher(basically the exact same press as a RCBS rock crusher) for $65 from Lyman. I can not find a blemish on it.

You can save a little money by reloading, but you can get alot of money tied up in reloading equipment as well. Tom.