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Message: <blockquote data-quote="red dirt shootist" data-source="post: 4179212" data-attributes="member: 52708">I have a different take. Don't buy it all, you will overwhelm yourself with things you don't need. For about 160 bucks you can buy a Lee kit that has every thing you need, and Lee has one of the best manuals you can get, it tells you why you're doing what you''re doing. And it is a process. Some of these guys here have been loading since that dust up between the North and the South, I've been at it for 50 years, which means nothing really, but if you've been doing it since the beginning of time you might have forgotten that its best learned slowly. Now, when you're buying tools, machines, and materials, you should have an idea of what kind of production you need. 2000 rounds a month, Dillon 650/750, with case feeder and bullet feeder, now a lot of guys say I can load that in a weekend, but I want to load fast, because every hour I don't spend on the loader, I can spend behind a pistol. The 550 is more versatile, not as fast, but more control, caliber changes will be cheaper 75 bucks for a conversion kit, dies 125.00. On the 650/750 conversion kit is 120 bucks, die 125, if you're running a case feeder might be 55 bucks for a wheel. If you want to set up fast buy a quick change kit for 170 bucks. Dillon isn't cheap but the engineering and the process of increasing output is incredible, so if you start shooting a lot, you're 550 dies will work in the 650/750, and then some guys have different loaders for small and large primers to save time. As far as the casting goes, forget it, unless you have some rifle like a 43 Spanish, and you can't find bullets. I know it looks tempting to buy it all, and I have several times, 6 months later I'm thinking what was I thinking? Good luck to you.</blockquote>

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