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Hi,

I'm planning to get into reloading. I don't know very much about it. I want to know what'll be the price for a starter kit. I think a single stage press will do the job, but a turret look interesting. I know I'll need a lot of things: press, thumbler, manual, scale, dies........

I'm planning to reload .45acp and .223rem. I shoot about 100 rounds a week, but if I cut the ammo price, I'll probably shoot more.

What would be the price for a starter kit?
 
fsreloading.com

Look there. Get the lee turret press. For those calibers and that amount of ammo the turret press would be best.

I believe the kit is $109 + dies + guage+reloading manual+shipping. Your looking around a ballpark of $200-250.
 
I'm new to this myself but it is a good skill to learn.Don't forget about component costs. I think i'm averaging about $150 per 1000 rnds of any general rnd. Includes the brass in their. Brass can be bought cheap on EE. You will need a lots of other little things like a caliper and storage containers for brass and boxes for your new bullets. Might as well say another $100 for all the stuff that creeps up. A bit of investment at the start but will save you money down the road and give you more accurate rnds as you learn to reload. Have fun.
 
FS Reloading does ship to Canada. Via USPS (Postal) it takes about a week.

I would recommend the Lee Classic Turret Kit 90304
Lee .223 Rem Dies 90502
Lee .45 ACP Dies 90968
Lee .223 case length gauge to Trim 90114
Lee Manual 90277

Safety glasses a pair of digital calipres from Canadian Tire or Home depot to measure. You will need some 1/4" bolts to mount your press to a bench/table and a pen and paper to record your reloads info. I prefer the RCBS/Ohaus 5-0-5 scale or a nicer digital one, and Reddings Imperial Sizing die wax is also very handy for a case lube for normal or special sizing jobs.

You won't need the case length gauge for straight walled pistol cartridges like 9mm .45 .38 etc. They generally do not grow in length like bottleneck cases (223 308 etc) and do not need trimming. Low pressure straight wall rifle cases like .45-70 are the same and don't grow.
 
Well I bought a bunch of stuff, about $1700 worth of equipment. I'm still buying more and keep telling myself it's all going to pay itself off.

I started off with:

Hornady LnL AP press
Dillon 1200B and dies for 223 and 30-06 (not cheap either)
tumbler
full die sets for 30-06 and 223 (recently acquired 9mm)
scale
bullet puller (hammer type)
RCBS lube dies for 223 and 30-06
and some other stuff.

Funny thing is I've bought more in equipment than reloading components... I just keep buying guns and no powder, primers and bullets.
 
Bart212 said:
... I'm still buying more and keep telling myself it's all going to pay itself off.
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You too eh? :D
I bought a used set-up and smugly thought "this reloading will pay for itself in no time!". Then I bought some calipers that came on sale. Then a tumbler and media. Then a bullet puller. Have to have an electronic scale, that Lee scale is a POS! Somewhere in there I bought a Hornady reloading manual. Next were some bullet trays...at this rate I figure my reloading setup will pay for itself somewhere in mid 2016! ;)

Seriously though, reloading is great...as nuts as it sounds, I enjoy shooting more because I create more brass to reload! You can't put a price on that kind of crazy!
 
Just go into reloading last week.

Bought the 50th anniversay Lee kit for $120
a 30-06 and 8mm mauser Dies, $45
Hornady #1 shell holder, 8 bucks.
Shell tray x 2, 10 bucks
Hornady digital scale, 25 bucks
Hornady One shot lube - 9 bucks

The kit came with everything needed + the stuff i bought to start reloading.

Buddy game his dads Lyman trimmer (80), RCBS trickler (30) and shell deburr tool (20)

and i have a digital micrometer

Plus powder, $27, primers $30 for a thousand and bullets ($28 for 100) i'm set.

Around $500 give or take after taxes. That doesnt include brass which i've collected.

That will let me reload about 100 rounds of 8mm mauser before i have to restock on bullets followed closely by powder.
 
GET OUT BEFORE YOU GET IN!!!!! Its a money pit....and I love it. Its as addictive as crack! Do a google search on reloading room pics and you'll see what I mean. The list of equipment, tools, supplies and gadgets is endless!

Honestly I do love it and its very rewarding regardless of which dicipline you choose(pistol, black rifle, hunting, precision...) but it is a money pit. I am into the precision game and its like your first hit of heroin... every time after that you are trying to better your last load/group. If you want to reload to save money it will pay itself off but it will take some time, if you want to reload to get better accuracy you will get immediate satisfaction.

Be careful what you wish for...you just might get it.

All I want to say is I warned you!

Ivo
 
I just went through what you are going through right now.

First question you have to ask is, how much are you willing to spend and what are you looking to get? Do you want to fuss around with a single stage or go straight to progressive presses. Auto index or manual. But when you decide the how much part the rest will come easy.

I went with the lee loadmaster but knowing what I know now i probably would have went for the LnL. Lee's are cheap and they work but a little quirky. I dont mind working and tweaking but there are little things that my Lee does that bothers me. If you decide to go with a lee look for titanreloading online they have one of the cheapest prices I found and they actually made me a list for my starter package, and they ship to canada. The how to videos are in you tube. Watch them a couple of times including press setups they make everything easy and fast.

And yes reloading is addictive nothing like looking at hundreds and hundreds of freshly pressed glittering ammo.
 
Hi all,
Don't know if this is the right page to post on but help me out please.

Fairly new to shooting and am thinking about getting into reloading, Both for better accuracy and to save some money in the future.

I shoot a .308 win and .357 mag/.38 special.

What exactly do I need to be fully setup to begin producing my own ammunition?
 
Lots of good advice on this site, maybe start lurking the reloading threads and see what others are doing. In my opinion reloading 45 is the way to go, I don't know how much you will save reloading .223, maybe another member can tell us. I started out on a Dillon because when I actually get out to shoot I use lots. Plus my wife comes out with me and we really chew through it. If you think you are going to end up shooting more than 100 a week, a progressive is the way to go. I learned on a Dillon 550, and now wished I had bought a 650.

they are way more expensive than a single press, about $550 for the press alone. The progressives excel for high volume reloading, and once you start reloading you WILL shoot more. You will also collect lots of little tools to help you. It is like shooting you can get addicted to fiddling around with all the little details to make the perfect ammo. So what starts out as a cheap hobby, slowly starts adding up.
 
If you are going to reload for pistol, you should seriously consider a progressive press or at the very least a turret press. I went with a manually indexing progressive right away and learned on a dillon 550b, and could not be happier with my choice.

See if you can try someones equipment out before you make a purchase so they can show you whats what and how to use it.
 
Go blue or red, the Dillion and Hornady LNL camp both seem happy. All reloaders eventually end up with one.

Expensive calibers like 45, 357, 44 and esp. 500 will recover your cost in no time. Better yet shoot several times more for same cost. With ranges being farther and farther away these days doesn't make sense for hour long trips to shoot 100 rnds, gas alone kills you. A worthwhile trip is at least 300 rnds of 357 and 45.
 
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