Whatever you do take your time to learn and buy good equipment and never shoot anyones reloaded ammo in your gun that you don't know or trust, in my case no one from now on. I made a big mistake the first day I took my new slide and barrel out for a test run. The guy beside me was chirping in my ear "try my ammo, its very accurate and powerful" I gave in, and loaded up a mag. 1st felt and sounded weak, 2nd same, 3rd same, then a failure to chamber. I tried to reload a next round wouldn't go. So I switched back to my ammo, and still nothing wont chamber, so Im like ok its not the ammo something wrong with the gun, do a chamber check and all I see is brass right after the chamber. His load was so weak the 3rd one just barely made it out of the casing into the barrel. Lucky for me because had it gone any further it would have accepted another round and I would have at the least bulged my brand new barrel or even worse split it open in my hand. I strip the gun down, bring the barrel to the front to clear it out, luckily a few taps and it popped right out. As were working on it the same guy comes in with one stuck in his barrel, it happened to him twice while I was there!
Stupid me I start asking the questions after as hes still trying to make me try another box that he loaded at a different time. I was like no thanks man I'll stick to my factory ammo. So I ask him how much did you spend on your loading equipment and where did you learn to load, he answers "$500 and Youtube".
Yeah so lesson learned, when I decide to re load I will be spending money on good equipment and taking the time to learn to do it properly. And I will never take anyone else ammo again....Not that you cant properly load ammo with $500 equipment but Ive been looking and Im seeing prices between $2000-5000 for good loading setup, so I don't see how he could have anything good for $500 total