A suggestion from a guy that does not play the game these guys play, and not sure I ever will at this stage of my life, but I have been reloading for......well lets just say it can't be that long, years into the double digits easy.
You have never pulled lever one. IMHO you are getting the cart a bit before the horse. My suggestion is, and sorry if it gets wordy.
Pick yourself out a press, my view on most of the "kits" out there are, well there is some good stuff in there, but there is quite a bit you will have in a drawer never to set finger on again a year down the road if this hobby sticks. I think if you stick with a "name brand" it is hard to find a bad press. I am also in the old school camp of start with a single stage, if you want something a little faster look at something like the Forster or one of the "better" turrets. In staying with the single stage all of them are just fine, even the internet whipping boy Lee. Not one single thing wrong with their single stage presses.
After that find yourself a nice scale or two, past that you are into the "little things", funnels, trays, boxes it is all things you need, but not what I would call a big thing. Don't forget a way to trim brass as well and a caliper or two.
It is not hard, men don't read instructions, but I would strongly suggest you make an exception here, read a reloading manual, watch a video by the folks that made the whatever, then go from there. Make your choice and pay your money.
Make your first round, just do what the book says. If something does not feel right it likely is not right, none of this are you really using bunches of force. If you can't seat a bullet with a nice even low effort pull something is not quite right. Fall back ask questions, go again.
Bottom line it aint as hard as they make it out to be.
Now your question. If you have not played this game yet, and you have not loaded ammo yet, you are going to be learning two new skills. Nothing says you don't have to do consumables to the 9's, you can start on the primers you can find locally. Start loading those, the groups should be on par with "normal" factory loads, and only go up from there. You can practice a great deal in both loading and control of your breathing and whatever with that 223 AR you already have, and practice reloading that as well. There is not much difference between loading for one rifle cartridge or another.
Good luck and have at it, you will be just fine.
One thing I do suggest is as soon as you can swing it, get your self a chrono. It really is IMHO a must have tool when working up loads, goes double if you get into the edges of published loads.
