[John Rogers]

There are two main issues with lots of shooting practice: time to get ready and initial cost.

Here is an example and once you get the equipment and cases the cost nearly drops to the cost of powder, lead for casting and primers. Once you learn with a press like the Lee Loadmaster 450 loads an hour can easily be done. the cost of the lead, primers and powder are continuing items.

Primers = $110 / 5000 small pistol.........2.2 cents per shot
Winchester 231 8# jug = $160 or so.......4 grains powder per target load = 14,000 loads or a little over 1 cent per load.
Lee Loadmaster Press = $384 which drops longer it is used
6 cavity Lee wad cutter mold = $53
Melting pot = $75
Tumbler with walnut shells for case cleaning = $60
Lead is a variable as some I get for free, some $100/LB, ETC wad cutters are 150 grains so about 46 wad cutters a pound.
Make your own shoot-n-see targets as per YouTube for 5 cents or so each

So once you get started, the biggest issue is time such as when my youngest daughter was competing for several years and shooting 500 rounds a day the time is a headache. We would get 20,000 rounds of 357 magnum wad cutters ready when there was several weeks of off time and then it wasn't such a hassle.