Stav,

Reloading for rifle and pistol are two complete different animals. You need a lot more equipment to load rifle than pistol. For rifle, you have to tumble the rounds first, then they should be single staged sized and deprimed (after lubing) then back in the tumbler to get the lube off, then trimmed to length, then deburred inside and outside, then primer pocket swagged and/or uniformed and then flash hole reamed. After that, you can go to the progressive press and prime (unless you hand prime beforehand) powder drop and seat the bullet!

For pistol, no trimming stuff needed. Just clean the brass in the tumbler and hit the press.

Based on average retail prices of $130.00 for 8 pounds of powder, $80.00 for 100 bullets and $30.00 for 1000 primers your cost to load 1000 rounds will be $165.80. Drop the powder down to $90.00 for surplus WC844 and get primers for around $25.00 and the cost drops to $138.40 per 1000 rounds! BTW, these reloaded rounds will shoot better and be more accurate as long as you set everything up correctly.

Don't buy garbage equipment, you will end up replacing it. I started with a Dillon 550B and have never looked back!

G