Reloading for 9mm?

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Hi all, I was wondering about how much ya'll pay approximately for 9mm projectiles (hollow point or FMJ)/ 1000? I ask because I will be reloading for 9mm soon, pending powder availability and price. The cheapest I could find projectiles were berrys bullets and Campro bullets which are both around $100/1000. Anyone know of anything cheaper?

On a side note, can anyone recommend a decent starting press for $100-250? preferably for reloading both 9mm aswell as .357/.38
 
Campro bullets have thicker plating than Berry's, FWIW. The only thing cheaper is cast.
As for presses, I don't know of any in that range, but I'm sure someone will be along soon with an answer.
 
I buy the Campro and Berry's bullets for that price, you can get cast bullets a bit cheaper.
You could reload 9mm on a cheap single stage, I use a Lee and it works great.
 
Cast is the way to go, if cutting cost is important. I use my Lee single press for almost thirty firearms and it has never let me down. My reloading time is my quality time and I want it to last as long as possible. If you want to pound out hundreds of rounds per session be prepared to dig very deep to get a nice progressive press setup. With most things start up costs are a ##### but after that your go to go .
 
I pay $0.081 per cartridge.

$0.032 per home cast 125gr bullet (a lee 6x mold makes about 400 bullets per hour), $0.045 per primer and $0.00421 (5.8gr SR4756) = About the same as .22LR but way more fun.

I bought 8lps of powder at auction for $40 so that helps a lot. I load on my single stage lee press at about 100 rounds per hour which is not so good. I am in the market for a lee turret or a progressive just trying to find one used since the $CAD dropped.
 
On a side note, can anyone recommend a decent starting press for $100-250? preferably for reloading both 9mm aswell as .357/.38
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It depends on what is most important to you. You can load 9 and 38 on a single stage press if you already have one; the dies will fit in most if not all common turret presses or progressive presses. If you only ever going to load pistol ammo a RCBS Junior will suffice. Or you can spend some $$$ on a used progressive and save hours.
 
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Here is a press in your price range. You should be able to crank out 250-300 rounds per hour once you are comfortable with it.
http://www.budgetshootersupply.ca/frame.cfm?ItemID=461&CategoryID=19

As you may know, finding powder is going to be the hard part.
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I have this press, works great, for the money, and you can up grade as you go, auto powder, auto primer...etc. Great press for the money, and you'll be buying from Henry, and you can't go wrong with that.
Cheers
Brian
 
A buddy and I had to load our ammo on a Lee Classic for just under a year until I was able to dig my Dillon out of storage. We were doing well to produce 150 rounds an hour starting with clean brass. We'd work in batches of 50 to size and de-cap first, then a second pass using the flaring die. Then we'd hand prime the cases. Once primed we'd dole out powder using a dipper and funnel then back to the press for a third time to seat and crimp the bullets.

There's simply no way we could have reached even 200 rounds an hour with that method. And we had lots of practice doing this to learn how to try. If I'd had the Lee auto disc powder measure to cut out the powdering step I think we'd have easily managed 200 an hour. And possibly 230 to 250.

Sun, you know that you need a lot more than just the press, right? Dies and a second plate for the second set of dies along with powder scales, some way to clean the brass and a bunch of other stuff.

Also loading up hand gun ammo on a single stage is more "joy" than most of us can tolerate. But that's for you to decide. But keep in mind that even with the right setup where you use a powder measure on the flaring die that you're still looking at 200 to maybe 250 per hour as pretty much tops. Even a basic progressive will up that to 350 per hour without too much trouble at all once you're up to speed and skill.
 
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Is 100-250 your budget for press only. or is that your budget for everything? If that is your budget for everything I would say You need to find one of those "Once in a lifetime deals" or really think your budget. Also campro and Berry's are about as cheap as You can get other then cast. I've used both and they are both excellent bullets
 
ahah yes I realize that I will need a lot more stuff to start reloading aside from the press. And for time purpose, I am looking to reload about 100 rounds/ hour, anything extra would be bonus!

And no the 100-250 is just for the press! I think ill go with the one from budget shooter supply since Ill be moving to Delta BC soon anyways.
 
Sun said:
ahah yes I realize that I will need a lot more stuff to start reloading aside from the press. And for time purpose, I am looking to reload about 100 rounds/ hour, anything extra would be bonus!

And no the 100-250 is just for the press! I think ill go with the one from budget shooter supply since Ill be moving to Delta BC soon anyways.
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I started with a Forster app $300 and did all my ammo including rifle for some time till I moved to a Dillon progressive.. but I still use single for decapping, pulling bullets and rifle.. I love that thing
 
Ive got a used single stage on the way and some dies, I'll be pumping out a few before long. My pal can do about 200 per hour with his setup. It will be a while before I get up to that.
 
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