[Hgunner]

I just did a few quick calulations, figuring a 7.0 grn powder charge. Powder at $22.95 a pound, primers @ 31.95 and Winchester 180 grn jacket hollowpoints @ $200 a thousand plus some rounding up for sales taxes etc and came up with roughly $70 per 250 or $280 a thousand.
However these cost can be cut significantly by buying in bulk, using lead or FMJ bullets etc.
Like eveything else on here you are going to get all kinds of different opinions and my press is better than your press etc.
IMHO simple put, if you are going to reload and may be loading rifle in the future get a Dillion RL-550B and be done with it.
You can not go wrong with a Dillion and their customer service and support is second to none, their no BS lifetime warranty really is a no BS lifetime warranty.

PS. I reload .45acp 200Grn LSWC and 230Grn LRN for about $116 a thousand currently.

 

[Hgunner]

I don't know how to really answer the buy in bulk question.
I travel a lot for work mostly same day trips so I know of and hit most of the shops in a 200 mile radius. I find a good deal I stock up. Go the gun shows and buy powder is 4 or 8lbs caddies instead of a pound at a time. Primers I found a little place about 45 minutes away always has good prices on primers and I'll buy 5k at a time. Bullets I use Missouri Bullet Company you can order off the internet. However I get to the Kansas City, MO area a couple of times a year so I'll drive down to their shop and buy direct. He gives me a good discount for cash and I pay no shipping. I guess you just get into it and you find your ways and your places to buy.

Also as to if its worth it, here I can get 100rnds of WWB .45acp for $35.97 + .10 for Ammo Tax + 9.75%sales tax. So that's $39.57 a box. Currently a Dillion RL550B with 1 caliber comversion kit is $429.95 + $62.95 for a Dillion 3 dies carbide die set. So the total is $492.90 thats roughly 13 boxes of WWB.
So 1300 rounds of WWB from wally world is what a press and dies cost you. Yes you need a powder scale and primer flip tray and other odds and ends. So for the cost of 2k of WWB your on your way and it doesn't take long to pay for it. I've had mine for 20 + years and its paid for itself over and over again. Oh and if I need a replacement part I call Dillion, they ship the part free and they pay the shipping too.