For me, it's about being more self sufficient and cost, when the ammo
shortages hit, we had no problem.
Powder and primers are a must and really not that expensive when you
consider the full reload, the bullets are very costly, brass can be used
many times, some over fifty shots. Every 30-06 brass should go at
least twenty times, easy, I went 35 shots on one 30-06 brass with
very hot loads.
With a 65 dollar lee melting pot and six cavity mold, five hundred boolits
an hour are no problem, if you run two pots you could probably do
a thousand boolits in an hour. Yes, with the smaller boolits you can
do much more, a six cavity mold with a 330gr 45cal boolit drains the
pot very fast at 12 boolits a minute.
Many don't believe this, we shoot many center fire rifles and handguns
cheaper than 22lr, and if you tumble lube the boolits it can go fast also.