nonameisgood
Regular Member
Lee Load Master complete kit for one caliber $220 (Factory Sales)
The Bullet Works plated bullets $70-80/1000
Buy primers and powder locally to avoid haz mat shipping charges
CCI sm pistol $35/1000
Titegroup or Unique, etc $30/lb... A thousand rounds or more (7000 gr/lb, used at 3-5 gr/ round)
I do 9mm using mixed (free) range brass for 10 cents/round... Half of the cost of cheap factory ammo. Once I get going, I can do a couple of hundred in an hour.
One but of advice: when using the Lee progressive press, I de-prime and size a bunch of brass, doing nothing else at that time. Discard brass which had crimped primer pockets (Win 9 mm NATO, or surplus military rounds.). It's easy to mess up your workflow with a jam or primer feed problem with a messed up primer pocket. I think the priming system is a big issue why people dislike the Lee press.
The inexpensive Lee works pretty well once you get things adjusted. I really like the Auto Disk powder measure, and it does have it's limits, but it is very consistent with Titgroup (small charges of powder with a small particle diameter.)
The Bullet Works plated bullets $70-80/1000
Buy primers and powder locally to avoid haz mat shipping charges
CCI sm pistol $35/1000
Titegroup or Unique, etc $30/lb... A thousand rounds or more (7000 gr/lb, used at 3-5 gr/ round)
I do 9mm using mixed (free) range brass for 10 cents/round... Half of the cost of cheap factory ammo. Once I get going, I can do a couple of hundred in an hour.
One but of advice: when using the Lee progressive press, I de-prime and size a bunch of brass, doing nothing else at that time. Discard brass which had crimped primer pockets (Win 9 mm NATO, or surplus military rounds.). It's easy to mess up your workflow with a jam or primer feed problem with a messed up primer pocket. I think the priming system is a big issue why people dislike the Lee press.
The inexpensive Lee works pretty well once you get things adjusted. I really like the Auto Disk powder measure, and it does have it's limits, but it is very consistent with Titgroup (small charges of powder with a small particle diameter.)