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don't buy anything until you take Jims class.
My Lyman cast iron is still going strong after 20+ years.
Well I have been looking around and I am pretty sure me and my son are going to start reloading come this spring, at the rate we are going though ammo and the gas to find it I think it makes good sense, plus I got my eye on a Ruger Black hawk 44 and I know I'll drop big bucks feeding that, jezz firing good 357 cost almost 30 bucks a box and that's if I can find it, right now we are just getting info together and looking around to see what's out there, we won't go for a cheap set but we also don't have the $ to buy a Dillion, been looking at some Hornady progressive presses for around $450.00
If we do it we will be reloading, 9mm, 38 special, 357 mag, 44 special, 44 mag, more guns to come ~
Tim
You touched on the key factor for my decision to reload. The time and gas running around looking for ammo....and this was before any shortage!
this is true also...although I have a good system and a free state friend to help out on orders!Your not kidding Edster... I have lots of primers and pounds of powder but drove from Scituate to Middleboro for bullets yesterday with no luck. I have 1k being shipped but need to pick up 1k in Connecticut that cabelas would not ship to Massachusetts.
That being said I hope to be casting very shortly. I have two 5 gallon buckets or about half a ton of range lead waiting to be melted. I don't know how fast casting can be but I hope fast enough. A six gang mold is in my future but still unclear how many bullets I can bang off in an hour.
I also need a caliber conversion for .45 ACP so there goes a few more Benjamin's.
Will work for bullets!!
After I broke it I called Lee just for laughs. I mean its 20 years old so I didn't expect much. They said they would replace it for half the retail price if I returned it to them! Ok that's a decent warranty but it would have cost me about $10 to ship and $19 for the half retail price to replace it but for the same price I could buy one new from Amazon delivered so it wasn't worth it to bother with the warranty replacement.