Reddit mentions of LEE PRECISION 90058 Perfect Powder Measurer (Red)

Get a second manual to cross reference and storage bins.. lots of storage bins. This is also nice.

I'm currently making 300blk out of 223 cases and just loading standard plinking rounds. I'm going for lost cost per round (CPR) that I can do.

Whatever press you very will typically work with any dies. I use a Lee single stage press and Lee dies, personally. I like doing steps in bulk.

Steps:

1. Look at all my 223 brass and pick out as many lake city brass as I want to covert.
   
2. Use a harbor freight 2in mini cut saw and some type of jig (I made one myself, but there are better ones on Amazon) to cut it to the right length.
   
3. Decap and resize using the decap/resizing die.
   
4. Depending on the trimmer you will either trim the case to length before priming, or you can prime first. I use a Lyman Ezee Trim and bought the extra 300blk pilot for it since I also do 223 and plan on 308. BUT I'd personally say to get the world's finest trimmer 2 of you plan to do bulk as well as other calibers. I was enough money on trim serious that failed that I could have just bought the world's finest and been good. If you don't plan on bulk and want to save some $$ the Lyman is fine. If you use the Lyman you need to prime after trimming. World's finest you can prime whenever. With the Lyman you may need to resize again if you use a hand drill to help with the trimming. Sometimes mine opens the case mouth a bit and causes b to not seat correctly.
   
5. Trim or prime after doing whatever you didn't do in the last step.
   
6. Find what powder and load you want. I use a Lee perfect powder measure. Others may be better. Mine gunks up after 100 rings and I wind up needing to clean the internals of I leave pretty in it overnight because they make the lever get hard to move. It also spills a little powder out the side in mine. This may not be the case with others.
   
7. Inspect that there is power in every case. Just put them all in a holder and use a flashlight to check.
   
8. Seat bullet to desired length with seating die.
   
9. Crimp bullet if using in a magazine feed rifle. This is personal choice for people. I like to do it this way. Others may not. If you are going for plinking amp it usually won't matter either way. Precision ammo you will have to test with and without to see if one gives better accuracy.
   
10. Shoot and test it. Put 3-5 round s in a mag (if shooting semi-auto) and shoot all 3-5. See if it cycles reliably and kicks the bolt back after the last round. You can technically do this with 2 rounds in a mag, but I like to test to make sure they feed in the mag right as well.

I kind of wonder if this would work well:

https://www.amazon.com/LEE-PRECISION-90058-Perfect-Measurer/dp/B000NTMJLG

This is obviously not the intended use case but it's designed to drop a precise measurement of powder / granules consistently and quickly.

Not planning on a lot for the rifle, unless I can find a crazy-cheap, low-recoil load that I can shoot a lot of without breaking my shoulder.

But I was going through 200/month for my 1911, probably do the same amount money-wise once I get this stuff up and running.

I was planning on picking up this powder measure.

Depends on what you want to spend:

Press

Scale

Thrower

Dies

You can use scoops instead of a thrower and a scale, but I'd go with the scale and thrower. Dies are dies, but there are cheaper as well as more expensive presses and throwers. Primers and powder aren't too expensive, but a little hard to find these days...

I've used that press. It works fine. It has the advantage that it is portable and you can use it anywhere. That die set works as well. The fact that you list hollow point bullets implies you intend to use the loaded rounds for defensive purposes. Many reloaders shy away from making their own defensive rounds due to the small chance a district attorney may feel it is a sign of premeditation. That's a personal decision. The ones you picked will work. The Winchester primers you picked work fine. Unique is a common powder, but I don't remember the size scoop that comes with the die. The die set comes with some reloading data and will tell you a list of powders.

What you've listed is enough to get you started. Eventually you'll want to add a powder measure. This one would do the trick. Eventually you'll want a reloading manual like this one.

I have this very same press and I have loaded thousands of rounds of .45 ACP on it. 10/10 would buy it again.

However, do yourself a favor and dump the scale and the auto-disk measure and pick up a micrometer powder measure and a digital scale. Your reloading will be much faster and less frustrating.

Why is this a stupid rationalization? ammunition is incredibly easy to make with the right tools. Many hunters and hobbyist reuse casings just for this.

Here's a device that is sold on Amazon that dispenses powder. As an example