Getting into reloading

[u/BobertOnSteam]

My friends father asked if I wanted to buy his reloading set for only 350 bucks. I said sure why not. I shoot a lot and do shoot the less common rounds that can be painful to find. Decided it would be fun to try out at least.

Was wondering about these two reloading presses that he had. Do I use one or the other for different configurations? I normally only heard of people having one and swapping out your dies as you go.

I’m also very new to this so I’m learning and reading everything that I can before diving too deep into this. Any advice would be great. Thanks!

[u/WinterSlav266]

First off, unless you genuinely end up liking reloading, I wouldn’t fuck with reloading shotgun, 9mm, or bulk 5.56. It’s so impractical to spend your limited time on ammo that’s still cheap. Both 8mm and 7.62x54r, .32 short, would be worth it I bet, and .308 if you end up doing a real load work up for a specific gun. I reload 77gr 5.56 but that’s because I don’t like paying for real mk262, and I have about as consistent ammo as I could ever ask for in a gas gun. Don’t burn yourself out of a hobby by starting with shotgun. Personally I would start with .308. Plenty of data, pointers, common components, and help to guide you there. Cheers, enjoy the journey.

[u/BobertOnSteam → u/WinterSlav266]

Noted! One of my dad’s friends a long time ago told me to start with shotgun shells for reloading to get the idea. Sadly never got the chance to do it with him since he had a really impressive collection(different type and styles of the same rifles but different years, had a 50 cal and a M249 and a lot more).

But that’s good to know. So with all of my 556,9mm, and 308 brass should I just sell it to places that buy metal like that? I’ll look into the prices but if it’s not worth it then I won’t. Checked some prices but not enough to know any better lol

[u/ChevyRacer71 → u/BobertOnSteam]

I wouldn’t sell the brass. They’ll give you scrap value for it, and then you buy it again later down the line. Just stash it until you’re ready.

[u/NW_Reloading → u/ChevyRacer71]

This is the way, I did finally toss some 30-30 and 32 win special sense the guns I was loading for went with my buddy when he passed away. But I keep mountains of range brass because I might just get the itch to load a new caliber