The price of those big shells was exactly the reason I decided to start reloading brass cartridges.
So I bought my first press and then dies, then scales, then priming tools, then dippers, then started buying brass and powder and primers and bullets, and then another press.
So I found out how much fun that monster was to shoot with light loads at which point I became aware that I could do practically anything with it if I had the right equipment.
The price of bullets lead to casting which lead to multiple molds, buying wheel weights, buying linotype, buying pure pb, buying ladles, buying an electric casting furnace. Picking up ww out of parking lots while my wife looks at me like I am a nut.
I almost forgot the Lee push through sizers, but I did not care for them, so then came the lubrisizer with all the different dies.
Then I added a rifle caliber which lead to the cycle repeating, then I added another rifle caliber, then another pistol caliber, then another pistol caliber. All of those had to have their own powder, dies, primers, bullets, brass, and molds.
And now I am on the list for the 700 grain 500 S&W group buy... like anyone actually NEEDS a 700 grain boolit with a hollowpoint so big that a small child could fall into it!
ALL THIS because I bought one gun!!
Not to scare you, but you would be better off to throw that gun in the river.
With all that said, have fun and enjoy the trip.
And I bet you typed that with a straight face...