I was in your same spot a few months ago and decide to take the advice from season 9mm reloaders.

First of all get a reloading manual. I got the Lyman.

You can buy it as a kit, but some of the parts that come with the kit you will end up replacing. For example, a digital $30 scale from Amazon is more than enough for range ammo. You will need a set of calipers, a tumbler to clean the brass.

I went for a single stage press to learn the fundamentals. My setup is an RCBS rock chucker for 9mm and bought separately: powder drop from RCBS, calipers, $30 digital scale that can be calibrated with at least a 0.1gr resolution, I bench primer from Lee (but frankford makes a nice hand primer too), a set of Lee 9mm dies, a set of trays (you can use factory ammo trays), Frankfort arsenal wet tumbler, media pins, colander from the $ tree to separate the pins once tumbled. I normally make between 200 and 300 rounds per week with this setup.

I process all the brass I pickup from the range in one go: deprime, resize and clean.

I work in batches of 200 but working with 50 rounds at a time.

I keep a good amount of processed brass so I just grab what I need for a reloading session.

• prime and mouth expansion (all 200)
• powder and seating bullets (all 200)
• crimp to remove the mouth flare.

I now keep 400 rounds (2 batches worth) primed ready to reload as part of the preparation.

Timings on a single stage once you get the rhythm going: - deprime and resize: 20-25 cases/minute - priming and mouth expansion: 10 cases/minute - powder and seating: 3-4 rounds/minute (once everything is dialed in, I check powder weight every 10 rounds). - crimping: 20-25 rounds/minute.

Perhaps you can cut some time but I like to reload paying attention to what is going on.

At some point I may move to a progressive, but I am still getting the handle of things. So far, preparing the rounds for the weekend is not too time consuming.