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How much did you spend on equipment (not supplies) to reload?
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<blockquote data-quote="S96743" data-source="post: 2506509" data-attributes="member: 109927"><p>Rock chucker Supreme kit is less than $700 off Amazon. It's basic but we used pretty much everything in it. My old setup was pieced together over 60 yrs ago by my grandfather and I've since been using it for the last 30 years we have a Redding scale though. Dies were mostly rcbs $40 today depending which ones and under $10 for shell holders. No bushing dies or anything fancy starting out just a full length sizer with decap and seater die. We'd set the powder throw a little light and used to use a plastic spoon and or a hobby paint brush to add powder to scale instead a trickler. Also a vld chamfer/deburing tool would be good also. The birch wood brass cleaner is a consumable and all you need is a bucket and some warm water. So about $1k should get you maybe 3 sets of dies, a couple shell holders, deburing tool, and the rcbs kit. Shell holders may work for multiple calibers depending on family ie 243, 308, 270, 30-06 vs 7 rem mag, 300 win mag, 375 H&H etc. </p><p></p><p>Now I'm dabbling with bushing dies, trimming cases, salt annealing with a hand primer. I'm not sure if the newer stuff helped my hand loads but the old pre64's still shoot about a minute or less and the custom shoots under .5. I was trying to see what all the added processes would do to my groups.</p><p></p><p>For the guy who's not shooting over 4-500 a basic reloading setup should do them fine to get going. I could be wrong but it's worked for me so far. </p><p></p><p>Search the forum. It's been covered before with members chiming in on what they would have bought knowing what they know now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S96743, post: 2506509, member: 109927"] Rock chucker Supreme kit is less than $700 off Amazon. It’s basic but we used pretty much everything in it. My old setup was pieced together over 60 yrs ago by my grandfather and I’ve since been using it for the last 30 years we have a Redding scale though. Dies were mostly rcbs $40 today depending which ones and under $10 for shell holders. No bushing dies or anything fancy starting out just a full length sizer with decap and seater die. We’d set the powder throw a little light and used to use a plastic spoon and or a hobby paint brush to add powder to scale instead a trickler. Also a vld chamfer/deburing tool would be good also. The birch wood brass cleaner is a consumable and all you need is a bucket and some warm water. So about $1k should get you maybe 3 sets of dies, a couple shell holders, deburing tool, and the rcbs kit. Shell holders may work for multiple calibers depending on family ie 243, 308, 270, 30-06 vs 7 rem mag, 300 win mag, 375 H&H etc. Now I’m dabbling with bushing dies, trimming cases, salt annealing with a hand primer. I’m not sure if the newer stuff helped my hand loads but the old pre64’s still shoot about a minute or less and the custom shoots under .5. I was trying to see what all the added processes would do to my groups. For the guy who’s not shooting over 4-500 a basic reloading setup should do them fine to get going. I could be wrong but it’s worked for me so far. Search the forum. It’s been covered before with members chiming in on what they would have bought knowing what they know now. [/QUOTE]
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