[Rick Lee]

If you follow Jeff's advice, you can pick up an old single stage RCBS press for around $75 on eBay, learn on it and get your money back out of it. I always found the actual press work to be the smallest part of reloading. Brass cleaning, prep and priming are the time vampires. I found a guy who sold .45ACP SWC in 165 grain. I couldn't find a manual with a powder charge spec. for that, but called around and got a few opinions. Sure was nice to have those loads and you can't buy them anywhere. With a single stage press, you can crank out 300-500 in a busy day. I think when I was doing it, it cut my ammo costs down by 2/3. At that time, .45ACP wasn't too expensive to buy factory loads. I did it mostly for my .44 mag. SWC are the best for shooting paper targets. Looks like a hole puncher.