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I started in the early 70's. Fortunately I had several friends who were experience reloaders. It was a mix of reason. I was trying to shoot about 500 rds of 38 spl. a month it made it more affordable. I had some rifles I wanted better than commercial accuracy. Normally as previous said accuracy on a hand load was about 1/2 the size of the group from commercial. I had tons of 30.06 brass given to me. I converted some to, 270, 308 and 8 mm.
About two years ago, my daughter has started reloading with me. She has help to load 12 gauge black powder shot gun, 38 super, 30 carbine, 8 MM, about 1,000 + 9mm, 45 Colt, 45 ACP and maybe one or two more.
Big cost saving is on specialty loads. Reduced velocity, lesspopular loads, special loads, high accuracy loads specifically made for one rifle only, and no longer commercially available loads, such as 30 Herret, 6.5 Sauer, and 256 Win Mag.
As mention some rounds are very popular and very inexpesive almost the same as in reloading your own. Only criteria I have for plinking loads, is that it does not harm the firearm, works with relative accuaracy and is cheap.
I think reloading adds a greater deminsion to the understanding of shooting.
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