Out of idle curiosity, how much would you say you have tied up in everything related to handloading - equipment, components, books...everything? Just looking at my desk/cabinets/bench and had to laugh. Must be 7,8,9?K worth, conservatively. Is it just me?
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hmmm, including bench and components, eh?
Hard to say, but definitely not as high as your estimate. Three, maybe four thousand, max? Keep in mind I've only been reloading since March.
There's definitely a trend appearing, though. I used to buy a couple of hundred bullets at a time, and have a thousand primers max in my cabinet. I now have roughly four thousand bullets ready to load, 12 different types of powder, 8 boxes of primers (1000s), etc. Give me a couple of years and I'll be in your ballpark!
Hard to say, but definitely not as high as your estimate. Three, maybe four thousand, max? Keep in mind I've only been reloading since March.
There's definitely a trend appearing, though. I used to buy a couple of hundred bullets at a time, and have a thousand primers max in my cabinet. I now have roughly four thousand bullets ready to load, 12 different types of powder, 8 boxes of primers (1000s), etc. Give me a couple of years and I'll be in your ballpark!
I'm the other end of the spectrum and only have about $600 into my setup (found the bench in the garbage at work! haha!) as I went with the Lee Anniversary kit and do things the slow and hard way all around, but it gets the job done. I have almost as much spent on bullets, powder and primers as I do on my equipment actually!
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About $1K, which is about four times what I would have thought when I started...
< $500
Mostly Lee equipment, and I think I do not have a great array of calibres to reload: 12ga., .303British, .223Remington, 9mmLuger, .455Webley.
I won't factor in the cost of brass because I buy factory ammo and recycle it. If I weren't reloading I'd still be buying that brass as factory ammo.
Mostly Lee equipment, and I think I do not have a great array of calibres to reload: 12ga., .303British, .223Remington, 9mmLuger, .455Webley.
I won't factor in the cost of brass because I buy factory ammo and recycle it. If I weren't reloading I'd still be buying that brass as factory ammo.
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Jeez... never thought of it that way before...
Lessee... four presses: $3000
Lubrisizer, furnace, hardness tester, other little casting bits.... ummm probably around $600. The moulds: add another $900.
Case trimmers, neck turning tools, electronic scales, powder measures, verniers and micrometers, chronograph... hand tools and measuring stuff like that, probably around another $1700.
Dies alone: probably about another $1200 or thereabouts. I don't have a whole lot of books, maybe $500.
I guess that leaves components. That can vary widely, but it certainly wouldn't be unusual to have $3000 or more in components laying around waiting to be turned into ammunition.
You know you've reached the outer limits when you can look in a Midway or Brownell's catalogue through the reloading section and not see anything you actually need...
So, no... it isn't just you.
5k and no where near enough components, when my reloading room looks like my reloading corner at work I might have enough
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About 1.5k? Rough estimate. But bullet-hole groups make me happy, so it's worth it
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Started simple, but think I started on the dark path with a Chargemaster Combo on the way to me.
Standardized collection to .22 (pistol & rifle), 9mm (pistol & carbine), .308 rifle so only two sets of dies, a used Lee 1000, a 30th anniversary set, impact puller (how can a puller not be part of a set - remember the fellow teaching me to reload laughingly suggesting that I may want one), digital callipers, tumbler, work stand and some plywood, 900 pieces of .308 brass (where did all of that come from), 900 primers, 500 .308 bullets (obviously need more bullets), 700 9mm bullets (obviously need more bullets), ~$1,300.
Eagleye, if you still have my email send a pic to me, am curious to see just what that looks like.
Standardized collection to .22 (pistol & rifle), 9mm (pistol & carbine), .308 rifle so only two sets of dies, a used Lee 1000, a 30th anniversary set, impact puller (how can a puller not be part of a set - remember the fellow teaching me to reload laughingly suggesting that I may want one), digital callipers, tumbler, work stand and some plywood, 900 pieces of .308 brass (where did all of that come from), 900 primers, 500 .308 bullets (obviously need more bullets), 700 9mm bullets (obviously need more bullets), ~$1,300.
you still think thats a good idea?
Eagleye, if you still have my email send a pic to me, am curious to see just what that looks like.
lets see 1050 , 650 , 550 , SDB, casepro, bullet feeder, 12 sets of dies , toolheads, 20 lbs of powder, 30K of bullets, 70K of brass, 30K of primers, primer filler
maybe 30K but I'm a little nuts...
The new shop another 20K and heading close to 2 months work....
maybe 30K but I'm a little nuts...
The new shop another 20K and heading close to 2 months work....
