Quote Originally Posted by Simon_S View Post
Think there just the standard ones at £42. The cheap Lee dies are £18 RGB.
Its up to you at the end of the day. Just for hunting rounds you don't
have to go mad with it. I would just get the Lee set with the crimp with them
if your using them for hunting.
You are right, of course. I needed the FL die rather than just a neck die as my brass has come from several rifles without segregation and therefore full length resizing initially allowed enough brass to be recovered to the point that the dies have more than paid their way after my first batch of cases! Also I find that I am being gifted once fired brass for 'recycling' from club members who do not themselves reload and would otherwise be ditching their empties in the brass bin which again helps offset the cost of the equipment but which again require the full resizing treatment.

I guess my primary motivation was one of wanting to get decent ammunition for my wife's Mauser and if I was doing that I might as well offset the cost a little by rolling my own .308 and .303 as well. In the light of limited ammunition usage and a tight budget rather than treating the reloading process as a secondary hobby, maybe Lee is the way to initially go for the OP.