What's the initial investment (roughly) to get started with one pistol caliber and one rifle caliber?
You can get buy as little as this (I would load 38spl on Sundays after breakfast up the club) We would pick up lead of the range my dad would smelt and cast on a old Colman stove then load up 38spl. I got to shoot 1 out of 5 rounds loaded...
Back when I was a kid there always someone with one of these at the range loading as they shot...
I had one of these for a while , picked it up at a yard sale for 10$ with 45cap die set up. Honestly though if your going to go ultra cheap the classic posted above I like better.
I decided to go with a hornady classic
Now I have more time to load than I do to shoot so single stage is not a problem for me. Although my arthritis is really starting to bother me trimming so a nice power trimmer case prep unit is in the works.
I have the Lyman prep center and bought it at a introductory price of 69$ when it came out. It's ok but the bits are on the poor side the so called crimp remover does not work. Over all its a fancy primer pocket uniformer.
I do have lee pro 1000 one for 223 plinking loads and one I used to load up all my 30 carbine that should last a good five years and now on to load up 9mm. It will be then used to load pistol cal in small batches like 32sw.
Again don't by inexpensive stuff and expect to be trouble free. I only bought the Lee's on sale and for a specific purpose.I needed to do some mods and tinkering to get it working well. Start by something all the flashing left over on the moving parts. I will most likely sell them after I load up my ammo....if I load all my ammo up I could most likely shoot until I am physically in able to shoot.
I keep telling myself I'm going to get a progressive but every time I save up the money I end up buying bullets,primer,powder or another gun.