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- From: mac@cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Getting started in reloading
- Message-ID: <mac.722010581@depot.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:31:02 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
- #I've been thinking about reloading for a while now and I wanted to find
- #out what the minimum setup is to get started in reloading. Is there some
- #relatively inexpensive (under $100), low capacity setup I can get that
- #will let me start loading my own inexpensively?
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- Checkout Lee. I started reloading about 3 years ago, and assuming my
- grep of my financial records caught most entries (I tried "load", "Lee",
- "powder", and a few other things), here are my TOTAL costs so far:
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- Necessaries:
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- Mar.89: 12.00 Speers Reloader's Guide, gunshow
- Mar.89: 25.00 Lee reloading kit with dies, gunshow
- Mar.89: 25.00 Lee dies for .357 & .38, gunshow
- Mar.89: 25.00 Lee dies for 30/06, gunshow
- Mar.89: 6.00 set of Lee power measures, gunshow
- Mar.89: 8.00 100 .357 brass, gunshow
- Mar.89: 5.00 100 .357 lead, gunshow
- Mar.89: 2.00 100 .38 brass, gunshow
- Mar.89: 7.00 100 .38 lead, gunshow
- Mar.89: 2.50 200 pistol primers, gunshow
- Mar.90: 12.72 Lee Chamfer tool/length gauges for .38/.357/.30-06, gunshow
- Mar.90: 4.25 Lee case trimmer, gunshow
- Sep.90: 23.85 NRA one-book per reloading manuals (.30-06, .38S, .357M)
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- Optionals:
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- Mar.89: 6.00 Shooters Bible, gunshow
- Mar.90: 1.00 Lee reloading catalog, mailorder
- Mar.90: 11.13 Lee AutoPrime II, gunshow
- Mar.90: 3.65 reloading tray, .357 brass brush, gunshow
- (Since then I've made several more wooden trays)
- Feb.91: 2.00 Lee large primer guide and catalog, mailorder
- (I lost my $0.50 guide and Lee's minimum order is $2.00!)
- Mar.91: 23.05 Lee powder scale, gunshow
- Mar.91: 16.76 Lee auto-disk powder measure, gunshow
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- Consumables:
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- Mar.89: 26.26 pound each GreenDot & IRM 4350 powders, gunshow
- Feb.91: 121.05 10# IMR4350 powder, mailorder (I still have plenty!)
- Sep.91: 12.63 pound of Blue Dot powder, gunShow
- Feb.91: 82.29 Reloading bullets/brass, mailorder
- Feb.91: 41.85 Reloading bullets/brass, mailorder
- Jun.92: 6.00 .38Sp/.357Mag brass, garagesale
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- Impulse (found at garage sales one nice Saturday morning):
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- Jun.92: 5.00 Lee hand reloader, .357 Magnum, garagesale
- Jun.92: 6.50 .38Sp/.357Mag dies, garagesale
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