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Your .308 is far better on a single stage. You shoot enough to make a progressive worthwhile. Don't get the Hornady manual- it's a recipe book, not a How-to guide. IF you end up using Hornady bullets, or want stories on a ton of rounds you'll never shoot- history and trivia- THEN get it. Instead, get an ebook from amazon called The ABC's of reloading.
For Straight Walled case pistol rounds:
You will want:
A press
A Balance Beam Scale- the RCBS 5-05 is a nice one. (to check the charge thrown by your powder measure- Double check your double checks!)
An inertial hammer-type bullet puller
Good calipers
A 3 Die set in your caliber- Sizing die, Expander die, and (Probably) TAPER crimp Die. Pay attention to the crimp for your cartridge, and the one in your die set.
Additionally
For a bottleneck case i.e. your .308,
A Single Stage press
2 Die set -Sizer, and Seater/crimper
You MAY want a powder trickler.
You MAY want a Lee Hand Press & a Universal decapping die. Makes decapping big rifle cases so easy.
You'll also need a cleaning process.
There's Vibratory with Corncob/walnut media. This is long term messy. You'll likely have a small mess for the entire time you're working, dust, little bits and remants of the cleaning process will follow you the whole process.
Rotary Tumblers with Stainless Steel Pins/Media. Bigger chance of a mess for a much shorter time. Imagine a miniatureized clothes washer filled with tiny steel rods that flop around inside your brass. You dump your pins and brass in the sink, and life sucks. But once you're past the cleaning part, you're golden.
It's a personal choice.
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