What or When or Who . . . motivated you to HAND-LOAD ?
For me...it was seeing a Rock Chucker set up in the gun shop where I traded & then having the owner tell me that I could make my own ammunition!
At that time I had 3 rugrats that would shoot tons of ammo every time we went camping...we used to go camping all the time, that was our family thing and all loved it.
Soooo...I bought the gear, taught myself out of the books...at first was scared to death that I might do something wrong & blow myself up right at the bench! After about 6 months all three rugrats were involved and hand-loading became another family thing too. Geeez, that was a long time ago...our oldest rugrat is now 48 !
Since then there have been many presses added to the bench and procedures have morphed a bit too but...that old Rock Chucker is still on the bench doing it's part, (I look over at that press now and still see one of my young boys sitting atop a stool and running it!) same old 5-10 scale & same old uniflow...my, my how times have changed.