Reloading prices

[mrgreencom]

Can anyone give me an idea what it costs to get started reloading? I've done some research on the per round savings, but would like to know the up front cost and don't know everything needed: Press, dies, scale, ???

A rough estimate for my budget would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to buy crappy stuff, but don't want ultra delux model either, simple and good's the word.

Thanks a lot!

[RRD3]

Sorta depends on what you want to reload. I think I spent about 400.00 to get started, and added a lot more equipment as I dove into it a little deeper.
I would try and find someone selling their gear on one of the forums. I have seen a few kits and setups selling for a decent price recently.

The basics are these components.

You will need the press. This holds the dies which will de-prime the shell, resize the shell and seat the bullet.

A shell tumbler for cleaning the brass before reloading.

A shell trimmer to trim the neck of the shells because they expand in length as well.

The shell dies. Purchased by caliber. I prefer Full Length shell resizing dies for all rifle. RCBS also has Competition dies to help get the bullet seating down to an art.

The shell holder. Purchased per caliber. Holds the shell in place when working with the press and shell die

Hand primming tool if the reloading press you choose does not have one built into it.

A powder scale. Spend the money and get a digital one.

These are the basics to get you started, there are so many options and different tools to make the process quicker, more precise and of course more expensive

I use all RCBS stuff because their customer support is top of the line, the equipment is good and fairly priced as well.

Check out rcbs's web site.
http://www.rcbs.com/default.aspx

Buy yourself the Hornady "Handbook of Cartridge Reloading". This is one of the best reloading data books out there. They cover a ton of powder, primmer and bullet cobinations for every caliber out there.

I'm sure I'm missing or fogetting something... But I think I get the "basics" down.

[sniper7]

Now isn't a good time to start. everything is unavailable and when it is waaayyy too expensive.

I would hold off for a while, or just stop at garage sales and see if anyone is parting with an old press and equipment.

[mrgreencom]

Thanks for the replies!

I meant to put the calibers I want to reload: mainly 9mm and 30-06 to start with. That's a lot of stuff that's needed!

sniper7: Yeah, I've heard that used stuff is selling more than new on E-Bay. This is for down the road a while anyway, still have some toys and hunting gear to buy first, but I've been trying to get some lists going to plan out my purchases (it's looking like the plan will already extend a couple years).

[sniper7]

Yeah I just did a search of all the reloading sites I know of and everything everywhere is out of stock no backorder. pretty crazy times right now. Hopefully it will catch up before I run out of my stashed supplies.

only thing I saw available was shotgun reloading supplies.

[RRD3]

I can tell you this when it comes to components. I ordered 10,000 small rifle primmers from Cabela's and I did get them. It took almost 3 months for them to ship, but they did.