Looking to start reloading

[Jekemi]

I've attached a reloading calculator in Excel. I've also included  information on a basic reloading kit and setup. Your price varies depending on the reloading press you start with. I have great success with the Lee Classic Turret press. It is inexpensive, solid, faster than a single stage reloading press, and accepts all kinds of accessories, dies, etc. I don't like Lee dies but love the Lee Factory crimp die. I usually use Hornady or RCBS dies.

I now use a Hornady LNL Auto Progressive press. It is very fast but your payback is much longer.

If you decide to go the cast bullet route you need to buy a pot, molds, flux, and some other accessories. However, if you can find free lead or nearly free lead your price per bullet goes down to just a few pennies. Then you can really start to save some money on reloading over factory loads. However, as it has already been said, reloading consumables are hard to find these days.

[smdave]

One of the easiest ways to start is hang out with your co-workers that already reload.

When I started 3 of us went in on a reloading set out of the paper classifieds.

[thinkingman]

get a lee classic turret press kit, it will reload about anything, and is great bang for the buck, love mine.

Don't let anyone tell you Lee equipment won't turn out thousands of quality reloads.

[Taco280AI]

I would like to get into reloading, but the factory Nosler ammo I shoot is so accurate I just stick with it (and buy five boxes at a time). Have loaded a little at a friends, seems addicting to find that one perfect load

[300rum]

Factory ammo has come a long, long, ways in the last 20 years or so.  It is very hard to beat (once you find the right combo) unless you go to benchrest type loading methods. 

I would like to get into reloading, but the factory Nosler ammo I shoot is so accurate I just stick with it (and buy five boxes at a time). Have loaded a little at a friends, seems addicting to find that one perfect load

[JohnVH]

I have never seen factory be as good as a reload, not in any of my guns, plus I can do it much cheaper. 

[Bone_Collector]

I started reloading this year after I got my first AR-15 mainly because I couldnt find ammo after the big scare and like some of the other posts on here I would also recommend trying to get one of your buddies who already has all the stuff to show you the ropes and use their stuff until you can get all the goodies that go alone with reloading!

I have found that my reloaded rounds group tighter than the factory loads with most groups touching each other. I was shooting the Hornady Superformance 53g Vmax and getting great results with very tight groups but with the hand loads I get even tighter groups!

Its great fun developing new loads and testing them out so have fun and be safe!

B_C

[NRA4LIFE]

Buy an RCBS Rockchucker kit and 3 or 4 manuals and be done with it.  I have accumulated brass from multiple sources over the years, mostly for free, i.e gun ranges, friends family, classifieds, spent brass from factory ammo etc.  Of course, when I started reloading, brass was dirt cheap so I also bought up pretty much a lifetime's supply.

[high country]

On a single stage.....hands down go green your first time. Wilson is the king of accuracy, lee is the cheapest and rcbs is the gold standard of tough and value. For a progressive, the new hornady made me interested enough to buy one over a dillon.....time will tell if that was smart.