Just start reloading. If you don’t have a Lotta money just start shopping craigslist. There’s always some old shooter that bites the dust and his wife is selling the whole shebang for a few hundred dollars if that. It really doesn’t matter if you get the Cadillac of automated reloaders or just a single stage like mine. They don’t wear out they don’t age they just go on and on forever and you’ll always see them for sale and yard sales and craigslist.
For most people shooting need you can use a set of LEE scoops To gauge your powder rather than an expensive set of scales and charge throwers . I’ve got both and believe me there’s not enough difference to say so for most of us shooting a hole in paper. Brass cases are available as once fired online by the by the bag of 100 to 500 to 1000 and they’re cheap if you look around. For small stuff like 38 specials you can just load rounds fairly light and cases last almost indefinitely themselves. Reloading is stone simple if you gave half a brain and use it.
Casting bullets is equally simple especially handgun. Lee molds are about $22. Just find a scrapper snd buy Scrap lead. I’ve been using straight lead , no antimony for a while now. Just powdercoat them using a #5 cottage cheese tub using the Shake n Bake method . Shake hell out of a small amount of powder and a handful of bullets. Then tweezer them base first onto a tray that fits an old toaster oven. I just set the timer and walk away. There’s all sorts of times people use but the 20 minutes I use is plenty. Let em cool some then I use my gloved hero of the hand to knock em into a tub of water. Supposedly that hardens the lead some. Then I size them and later load them up. in retrieved bullets every one still has all the coating and my leading is zero in the barrel. Simple and cheap this stuff hust takes a little time
