atl5029
welcome to the madness, LOL!
Casting can be tricky to pick up or not depending on how handy you are.
Erik at Hollowpointmold.com canget you into a 2 cav HP mold in the 90 buck range which is a good starting point for you.
Strongly suggest you visit his web site and view pictures before buying, lots of visual info there see it!
Next Miha makes great molds, I have Two, but the 45 HP molds go very fast ( last one on here snapped up in two minutes at list price) and he is slow on delivery because he is very very busy!
The 6 cavity molds are not hard to keep hot, I use two at a time and rotate them off an exposed coil hot plate.
This can make a pile of boolits and fast! Buy the Lee 20# pot to get started you can add a second one later if the whole program works for you.
A lot of decisions need to be made by you before you spend a dime, for me tumble lube was a waste of time and effort, the push pull sizers like Lyman and RCBS are slower than all get out.
The Star is the leader of the pack both for speed and accuracy, my own tests have shown me that nose sized boolits shoot more acurrately than those run through a push pull machine, but Star are pricey and a little hard on a newbie to set up but once running make lots of lubed boolits in a hurry!
My suggestion:
Buy a 2 cav Lee HP from Hollowpointmold and then pan lube with Carnuba red shoot some and decide if this will work for you, if it does step up to a couple six cavity SWC Lee's for practise, you can use the same load for the swc and the hp as long as you don't try to get lightspeed out of the loads.
Keep asking questions were here for you