here is what I do. I buy prepped lake city brass, The current stuff I have which is all loaded needed trimming and sizing. If I do it again, I am buying it ready to load. I don't give a rip if its 20 bucks more per 1000 cases. I think I can find 1000 ready to load cases for about $125 bucks. I keep and resuse the brass I can readily pickup, meaning if I pick up half of it I am pretty happy. If I am doing a jackrabbit walk in the sage, none is getting picked up. If I am shooting over a p dog down. 90% will probably get picked up.
6DTI, that is much more expensive brass. So I typically use that gun in situations that allow easy brass pickup, using a reb brass catcher I think I only lost about 10 cases out of the 250 cases I originally bought and loaded up in the last year. but in any event I recon after about 5-6 loadings all this brass is going to get lost by then.
with the shell schuking machine guns, IE AR's its not like I am running neck turned, neck sized brass loaded for a precision bolt gun. I would also say stressing about brass loss is kinda like showing up to a brothel and worrying something might go wrong. part of the fun is not giving a rip.