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A kit is a good suggestion. You don't need everything in there, but most of it is very useful. A cartridge tray, funnel, scale, lube, and reloading manual are truly necessary. There are other bits and do-dads I use constantly though. Calipers, a case cleaner, deburring tool and primer pocket cleaner.

Also, it never hurts to have more than one press, but it's not necessary. I use two single stages to load most of my calibers and a progressive for 9mm/.223

I only got into reloading maybe 6 years ago? It’s been fun, sometimes cheap sometimes expensive. In Long run it’s cheap and worth it. but the initial start get ready to drop $1000+
Especially primers and powder have tripled in price. FJB.

I got the Hornady lock and load kit. To this day I use about 75% of things it came with.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL ain't nothing cheap about it ! Used to be.

I’m pretty sure I said that somethings have tripled in price and initial investment is not cheap.
If you shoot specialty calibers, it will pay for its self, probably sooner than later.

it will pay for its self, probably sooner than later...yeah ok. wishful thinking.

Last 6 years I’ve gone through close to 1700 large Rifle primers. For 6.5, 270, 06. Mainly shoot game changers, game kings, SST and recently Speer BTSP. All very reasonably priced. Yet those would be considered premium ammo. And thats not cheap any more, especially in OP caliber list.
Only negative thing about reloading is finding the time with busy work schedule and kids
To each his own brother

....and the range being 50 miles away.

Plan on spending at least $500 plus actual supplies like powder, primers, brass and bullets. Realistically, $700 all in.

I agree! Stay away from the lee stuff except for collet dies and trimmer pilots.

If you can’t dedicate 4 hours on a weekend to reload, you don’t have time. Most people who “want to reload” don’t t realize the detail and time that’s involved. I have a buddy that wanted to reload. He bought a Hornady kit, powder primers, bullets, dies, etc. but he has no time to actually learn how to do it, nor the time to shoot and test loads. Bottom line is that he only reloads when I am there to help him and hold his hand through the whole process. He certainly won’t load on his own. So he has spent about 1000$ to load 2 boxes of bullets so far, in a years time. Just food for thought.

When I got started, not too long ago....I got a RCBS Rockchucker Extreme Kit. I can't remember needing anything but a calipers to get started loading.

It's way overbuilt for the amount I load, but my grandkids kids can have fun with it.