Thank you all for the advice. I was going to reply after I picked up the parts Pawpaw was giving me, but the forum was offline.
Pawpaw gifted my wife and I with a Lee Classic Loader and Shot Shell Reloading Press. As he warned, there are some pieces missing, but I've signed up for notifications when they are back in stock and I occasionally look around on other sites. There was a fair amount of brass mixed in. Mostly in calibers my wife and I use. The primers have been sitting around in plain cardboard boxes for quite awhile, so I'm most likely not going to trust those. There were 5 cans of powder as well.
In the meantime, my wife and I are going to be building our bench*, cleaning up the press(es), and slowly accumulating the supplies we need.
*After discussing it with my wife, we're going to build a portable "break-down" bench with 2 stations (for each press). That way we can actually put on a movie, or music, or something and sit there and reload together.
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Advice Needed
With the current plandemic ongoing (and other issues) and no end in sight, my wife and I are looking to get into reloading. We need to load for 5.56, .45 ACP, .40 S&W, and 12ga. And we need to do it as "on the cheap" as we can due to my current job situation (I'm currently in a contract-to-hire position). Sadly, I'm making about $30k/year less than I was before I got laid of.
Being technically minded, I'd love to build a computer controlled system, but I'm quite sure that's going to be out of my price range for awhile. Neither of us minds some manual labor, and it would be kind of a fun activity for us to do together, so if a manual press is what gets recommended, so be it. Can someone point me to some resources and possibly give some hardware recommendations?
Being technically minded, I'd love to build a computer controlled system, but I'm quite sure that's going to be out of my price range for awhile. Neither of us minds some manual labor, and it would be kind of a fun activity for us to do together, so if a manual press is what gets recommended, so be it. Can someone point me to some resources and possibly give some hardware recommendations?