Lee Classic loader for 44 magnum?

[Walkalong]

The point you justify a table mount press is up to you, I guess for me it would be before I spend the money on a Lee loader.

Me too, buy a press.

 

[Walkalong]

was easy to keep hidden in my college dorm room

I knew a guy who kept his Lee Loader and other stuff under his truck seat. Dirty, but it worked, kinda like him.

 

[kingmt]

And you don't know squat about my personal condition, so don't preach to the choir about living broke. Been there, got tired of it, dug an even deeper hole to avoid forcing my kids to live that way.

Bringing up pointless blather about inventory ammo and firearms isn't relevant either, as that has nothing to do with the OP's statements. He's asking about low cost equipment to get into reloading, and I stand by it - if the $30 Lee Loader is in your budget and a $80 combo of die set and benchtop press is out of your budget, you really don't have he budget to be shooting recreationally - and folks who shoot professionally I've always seen be provided ammo. My point is the $50 difference is minimal compare to the total start up cost, and the Op will be much better suited with a benchtop press.

If a guy REALLY cannot feed his kids because he saved up and spent $80 instead of $30, which all goes along with over $100 in components, and involves ownership of at LEAST a $200 firearm, then he shouldn't be so selfish and skip reloading and recreational shooting altogether. He should sell the gun even and feed his kids. A man takes care of his own before his own recreation. At least that's how I was raised.

Personally I'd suggest to the person to take his $200 gun & $100 worth of manufactured ammo to the range, learn to use it, go kill $300 worth of meat to feed his kids, & still have ammo & a firearm to protect them.

So would it be better to feed the family for a month with $300 or invest $100 & keep the already invested $200 to feed the family for at least a year. Most kids will be at the house for 20 years so that brings the cost of the firearm down to $10 a year.

Over the first year with my family of 7 considering we eat 6oz per meal would be 2874.375lb of meat at the cheapest store meat I know of is chicken at 50 cents per lb for dumb & legs (which we won't consider part of that is bone) comes to $1437.1875. After one year I could use that save money from my $30 loader investment to buy about any press I wanted, spend it on other things they needed, buy a new nice press at a reasonable price & still have money left for other things.

I was never taught this line of thinking. I grow up the later years of my life with money. When I went out in the world on my own tho I didn't leave with much & I had to figure out how to get my own. This was the logic I used to survive. It has worked for me. I never went into debt until I could afford debt. I still hate debt because I don't like paying more then the up front cost.