Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA

Loading your own ammo will typically save quite a bit over the cost of the same loaded bullet in commercial form. BUT, you have to amortize the cost of the equipment and reused brass into the price over time. I don't care though. I also find it therapeutic, and being an engineer treat each load development as a DOE (Design of experiments), tweaking parameters to optimize the desired performance. Most of my long range ammo is loaded on a single stage and any high volume work gets developed on the single stage before it goes over to the progressive once I'm satisfied with it. Progressives are great, once they are dialed in.