Strikes me as you will likely wind up wanting two presses, a progressive for the pistol rounds, and a single stage for the rifle rounds. You can run rifle rounds on a progressive, but, with the number of cartridges you want to do, you could find yourself spending a lot of time setting up, to change cartridges. Which may not be practical for small batches. Look carefully at what it takes to set them up and what accessories you need to buy, to do it for each cartridge. Finding someone in the area, who is set up with both, would help you immensely, to see what is what on that. Either setup, requires the same steps to process a cartridge to a finished product, and you need to learn the peculiarities of each step one at a time.
Most reloading component mfgrs have info online for reloading, the one thing they do not have on their sites, are the procedures, those are best picked up by reading reloading manuals, which will also give you a fallback reference, when you make a mistake, to help figure out how you foobarred it. No one manual has it all, each one has some different stuff in it. Acquire as many as you can. Start with the bullet mfgrs.
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