Yeah, hang onto all the 9mm you can find, and if you need more, well it's about as hard to find as a welfare Democrat, these days. Anyone who buys brand new 9mm brass, to reload, is a suckah! But heck, even if you were to buy new brass, you have to keep in mind that each piece can be reloaded at least 10 times, (20 or more, if sub-sonic). When you amortize the cost over 10 or 20 loadings...hell, it's practically FREE. Buy once-fired and it's half of FREE!.
I'll make one other point about the differences between reloading on a true progressive and a turret or single-stage press. You've got to be "ready" to load on a progressive, in order to really magnify the speed advantage it offers. What I mean by that is, if you're going to load 1,000 rounds in an afternoon, you've got to have 1,000 cases, primers and bullets, with nearly a full pound of powder...or else you're not "ready". It's a mass-production effort and hardly worth it if all you're loading is 50 or 100 cases.
On a turret or single-stage, I can go out and enjoy reloading, even if I'm only prepping and/or loading 50-100 rounds. It might take me half an hour to an hour to load that many, depending on the exact round and how precise I'm being, but that is perfectly fine with me. I'm in no hurry.
I don't have a beef with progressive presses...it's just that I really don't want to be done that fast. I like being free to work in small bunches or spend the whole afternoon turning out several hundred. With a progressive, it's hardly worth pulling the handle unless you're doing that many.
Some things in life are tedious, repetitive and laborious. If that's how you view reloading, a progressive is the right press for you. For those of us who like slowing down and doing something very well, the slower presses make an enjoyable hobby last longer, while still turning out a fair amount very high quality ammo.
To each his own!
You make a very good point. I don't want it to feel like a job. I want it to be fun and enjoy it. I understand what you mean when you put it that way, I can see where cranking out rounds on a progrssive could just seem like your working in an ammo factory instead of having a good time actually making the rounds.