I am not talking about homemade reloading. I'm talking about pooling up some money with some of my friends to buy commercial bullet/ammunition making machinery equipment, to manufacture our own ammunition from scratch, from the basic materials such as powder, lead, brass, and copper to the finished product = 1 fully assembled round of ammo.Due to the ammo shortage I see now, I see a great investment and commercial opportunity. Lead, copper, brass, and powder can be found in vast quantities, but ammo is in a shortage. But if I have the machines to melt, process, and combine these materials, I no longer have an ammo shortage. Where can I buy commercial ammo making machinery?
In reality you WON'T save money by reloading 5.56,7.62x39 or 54R,there is just too much cheap stuff available and you will take too long recouping your costs when accounting for the press,dies,accessory equipment plus your consumables-and THEN add in your time. Reloading works well to gain accuracy or load for expensive or less supported cartridges-I reload for a 300 WSM instead of spending $40+ a box,so reloading for the other rifles is a bonus save/accuracy gain. If you had a WSM,Weatherby proprietary,RUM,RSAUM, boutique cartridges, 375 HH or larger;or things like a hot 6.5 x 55 Swede load,7mm Mauser,etc it would return your investment quickly. Your 300 Win Mag might get some accuracy gains and of course you can load specific bullets,but when you add a pistol cartridge you start needing a turret press instead of a single stage-almost doubles the press cost. Not going to dissuade you from reloading for what you can gain,but economically,it takes a while to see a benefit-and in the Russian loads you are dealing with questionable accuracy gains anyway. Best thing is to see what the Lee,RCBS,Redding,Hornady kits have in common-press,scale,hand primer, Lube Pad,etc-add to that a decent dial caliper,case trimmer of some type(Lee and RCBS take two TOTALLY different approaches),tumbler,and a bullet puller maybe.
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You're going to need to do more than pool money with friends to set up an ammunition factory. You'll need a building, several tens of thousands of dollars, and a lot of permits from federal, state, and local government. Even if you pulled off the setup, you would not be able to purchase raw materials in sufficient quantities to be able to make it cost-effective.
