You'll be very hard pressed to reload for 30-06 just to shoot deer to 200yrds and ever break even on cost.
A much better option for you would be to find someone locally that would be willing to reload for you. You cannot legally pay anyone to reload for you, but you can provide components and they can produce the ammo. If they do it in one big lot, you'll never need to restock on ammo in your entire life of shooting a box or two each year for deer hunting.
The ~$40 hammer whack Lee Classic kits are not a suitable reloading solution, and you won't make consistent ammunition with it. I bought a couple of those kits when I was in college thinking that I could seat bullets at the range (most 100/200yrd competitions are loaded at the range), but the consistency of the ammo was terrible. You will not get consistent seating depths or neck tensions with that kit. No questions asked - this is a waste of money.
At a very minimum, the "scissor style" Lee hand press is your only "minimalist option," and even still, it doesn't compare to having a bench mounted press. The Lee Hand Press doesn't save enough money over the Classic O-Press single stage to be worth buying either (own two of them for seating bullets at the range when testing loads).
So run out the numbers:
If you're shooting a box or two every year and just deer hunting, then you're talking about $40-50 a year for factory ammo.
Versus a minimal kit for reloading:
Case Prep:
- Case length gauge Lee gauge = $7, but these SUCK if you're doing much volume (need parts from Lee Anniversary kit below)
- Chamfer & deburr tool: Take your pick = $10
- Primer pocket cleaner: Take your pick = $5-10
- Tumbler & Media: Lyman 1200 = $60, media = $15-30
- Case Neck Brush: Take your pick = ~$10 in with brush and handle
- Case Lube Pad: Take your pick = $10
Reloading:
- Press Kit: Lee Anniversary kit = $130, has a press, a safety scale, a press mount primer, a and a hand case trimmer and lock stud. The powder thrower in the kit sucks, but will work to throw ~80-90% of your charge, then trickle in the rest. The scale/balance is super slow, but keeps you safe.
- Set of dies: Lee Pace-Setter 3 die set = $30 for standard cartridges like 30-06
- Trickler: Take your pick = $15-20
Miscellaneous tools:- Calipers: Cheap yet functional set = $20
- Cartridge trays: Want at least two, take your pick $5-10 each = $20
- Bullet Puller: Hammer style or press mounted = ~$15-20
Components:
- Bullets: 20-35cents a piece = $30 for the first 100
- Brass: 50-75cents a piece = $60 for the first 100
- Primers: ~3cents a piece = $35 for the first 1,000
- Powder: ~24cents per shot = $28 for the first ~100-125rnds (H4895, loading 50-55grn each)
Total cost for the first 100 bullets = $515
Comparatively, that'd be about $100 for factory rounds.
But that's only 100rnds, which if a guy shoots 2 boxes a year, is only about 2.5yrs.
Since moderate loads in the .30-06 should let you get around 10 loads before they all need to be replaced, you'll only need powder and bullets to to get you to 1,000rnds, at the cost of about $60 per 100rnds. 9 reloads at $60 per hundred, plus the $515 start up, that's $1055 for 1,000rnds.
Factory ammo would be right about $1,200 for 1,000 rounds.
So at 2 boxes a year, 1,000rnds would last you 50yrs of shooting/hunting, just to break even between factory and reloading! At 4 boxes a year, it's 25yrs to break even. Not to mention the many hours that you spent in the act of reloading, rather than simply buying a couple cases of ammo off of a shelf.
Even if you go on the cheap with those crappy hammer whacking kits, you need a LOT more than a $40 kit to actually reload. You'll find that that first 100rnds is going to cost you somewhere in that $500 ballpark, even trying to get in on the cheap, so you might as well go with a real press kit.
Saving money via reloading only works out if you're shooting high volume or shooting non-standard cartridges or wildcats where you might have $5 per shot in factory ammo instead of $1. If you want to reload for the fun of it, fine, if you want to reload for the accuracy, fine, but don't be mistaken that you're going to save any money reloading your deer hunting ammo.
EDIT: I'll also tell you that if you find yourself reloading for 25-50yrs, you'll have a he11 of a lot more invested in your equipment. I've been reloading for just under 20yrs and have been through 5 different press set ups, and although I've never added it up, I'm certain I have over 5 grand into my tooling alone - really hoping it's less than $10k. I'm VERY certain I have far more than that into the ammunition/component costs, as I've ran more than $10k in reloaded ammo through a few of my individual guns in that time.