Question ? (reloading equipment)
I have an oprotunity to buy some manuel reloading equipment. It has pretty much everything (press, meassure, scale, ect), it only has one set of dies (308), and has alot of manuels.
Everything is mounted on a small bench that can easily be moved around.
I am not sure of the brand name of this stuff but it is in desent shape and looks to only have been lightly used.
It is a compact little setup that I could even move around (important to me as I do not have a garage or a shed to work from and I could store it in the house and when the weather is nice I can set up on the front porch with a chair and do some reloading.
I can get the whole set up for $200. Is this a fair price?
And if it is a fair price how much can I expect to pay for more dies? I would be looking to load .45, .38, 30-30, .223, and possiply a couple others.
Everything is mounted on a small bench that can easily be moved around.
I am not sure of the brand name of this stuff but it is in desent shape and looks to only have been lightly used.
It is a compact little setup that I could even move around (important to me as I do not have a garage or a shed to work from and I could store it in the house and when the weather is nice I can set up on the front porch with a chair and do some reloading.
I can get the whole set up for $200. Is this a fair price?
And if it is a fair price how much can I expect to pay for more dies? I would be looking to load .45, .38, 30-30, .223, and possiply a couple others.
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If the press is red and the scale is plastic (LEE equip) than it's high, if the press is green or orange (RCBS or Lyman) than it's fair, if the press is blue (Dillon) than it's dirt cheap. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Tailgunner1954
If the press is red and the scale is plastic (LEE equip) than it's high, if the press is green or orange (RCBS or Lyman) than it's fair, if the press is blue (Dillon) than it's dirt cheap.
The press is green, the meassure and scale are red (but definatly metal and not plastic). The scale is of double beam type.
Like I said it looks to only be lightly used if used at all.
There is also a hand primer seater (the type of thing that you set the case in and squeez to set the primer in the case), but primers can also be seated on the press.0 -
Buy it. You can never go wrong with too much
reloading stuff.[;)]0 -
quote:Originally posted by awinds
Buy it. You can never go wrong with too much
reloading stuff.[;)]
I don't have any reloading stuff. I have never done any reloading and would have to find someone to help me get started showing me the ropes.
I also would be doing it more for something to do rather than cost since I do not work anymore. Although getting my ammo cheeper would be a plus.
I had not looked into it as I don't have a garage or shed to work out of, but this setup like I said is nice and compact and I could store it in the house and set up on my front porch in the nice weather to do my reloading.
But at the same time I don't want to get hurt on the price of the equipment.0 -
Sounds like a good starter set to me!
I would be happy to help you get started. Others here are surely more experienced than I am - take all offers from them, no ego here. But if you wanna talk, I can maybe help. I have been reloading for over twenty years, but limited to "hobby quality", I am not a competition level shooter or reloader.0 -
green=rcbs=good equipment, buy it. die sets will run you about $20 a caliber. 0 -
as much as you like to shoot, get a Dillon, or you will not enjoy reloading, because you will spend more time reloading than shooting, not trying to be a smart azz, but you don't need a starter for reloading, you ether learn how to do it right the first time or get injured, so no sense in not jumping in with both feet with a good progressive if your going to jump in at all
10 min per 100, lifetime warranty, greatest customer service i have ever saw anywhere anytime, i have over 50,000 rounds through mine looks brand new and unused0 -
Do it.
Then, like folks have been saying in another thread, read all the books first.
There's actually some interesting reading in most of those manuals.
Well, interesting to gun-folk.0 -
Thats a good deal. Don't jump in to fast or to deep, you may not like it. Double measure, double check. You can not be to careful. I've had been loading for about 15 years when.
I load some .357 for a pistol and then some .357 for a rifle. About 15 gr. different. packed them in the same box. then about a mo. later went to the range. forgot about the rifle loads. Gun ended up behind me on the ground. Guess I got lucky,gun nor me were hurt.
Double check and mark everything clearly. It will save you from decapping 350 rounds. Good luck and good loading.0 -
I can give you copies of data out of my Speer book in the caliber's needed. They have a gun show at the fairgrounds mid June. 0 -
I would advise you to buy the carbide dies for handgun ammo like your 45.
They will run 30.00 and up but are well worth it in the long run.0 -
sounds about right,..not a steal, not a rip-off. Considering I would rather have a digital scale/dispensor combo for pure speed, I would give that scale little or no value and think about buying a digital anyway. Sell the scale for whatever and use that money towards the digital. The beam scale takes forever to get a round loaded.
If you don't go with a combo, then buy a good thrower with micrometer adjustments and a digital scale to check the weight of the charges to save some money.
die sets for a standard 2 die set (FL and seater) will run from $20-$40 ech and a bit more with a neck die included.
reloading outside won't work,..any breeze AT ALL will throw off the scale readings.0
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