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RCBS would be my choice.

Do yourself a huge favour and either go to the US or find someone who's going and buy your kit there, works out about half price, bullet heads are even cheaper, last trip the savings made on 2000 Nosler .30 168gr Custom Competition alone paid for one of our flight tickets!.

I have a friend in America now and I might see if he can bring me back something!

Ovenpaa - it seems as if you wouldn't get a all-in-one kit - what would you spend the money on?

My personal first time choice would be:

Lee Cast Classic press
RCBS Primer tool
RCBS beam scale
Sinclair primer uniformer
Lee case chamfer and de-burr tool
Any sort of load tray, ideally 100 case or two 50's - cheapest I could find
Imperial sizing wax

Forster dies

You will need more along the way but this is a good starting point. Eventually you will need a case length trimmer, I use a Lyman but even they are pricey now, the other thing that I believe made a difference was a bullet run out gauge and I know where to get those from at a decent price.

Do you belong to a club if so put a notice up on the club notice board asking for second hand kit as a starter.

My advice would be to buy the Lee single station cast press.
The RCBS powder measure.
A good beam scale not the Lee one.
The Lee auto prime.
A reloading tray.
A powder trickler.
The Lee powder funnel.
Imperial re sizing wax or the stuff that Adam sells that is just as good but cheaper.

Lee reloading dies if you are new to all this. They are cheap enough to throw away once you move on.

You dont have to rush out and buy all the kit at once get advice then get more advice once you decide what you want buy one piece a month. If you get it right first time this kit is going to last you the rest of your life. Lets not waste any of your money on kit you dont need.

Alpha1 wrote:Lets not waste any of your money on kit you dont need.

Like the rest of us you mean?

:lol:

ovenpaa wrote: The other thing that I believe made a difference was a bullet run out gauge and I know where to get those from at a decent price.

You've lost me.. Bullet run out? Even looking at your blog didn't help!

I'll try the second hand club stuff route. But if I can get in contact with my friend in time and if he has the chance I'll ask him to pick up the RCBS Rockchucker kit. $300 is a pretty good deal!

http://shootingshed.co.uk/wp/2012/03/co ... out-gauge/

This one does both neck run-out and case neck thickness. The run-out gauge measures how far out of alignment the bullet is to the case. I aim for under .002" (two thou)

Looks expensive!