dbarnhart
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I'm a bras-scrounger. I'm always on the lookout for good deals on 45ACP, 223, 308 brass. I find a lot on Craigslist and Backpage. Tonight I was thinking about what actually constitutes a 'good deal'.
I decided that a strategy for determining this 'good deal' price would be to take the price of ammunition with reloadable cases and back out what I pay for the 'expendable' components.
I can get 500 rounds of Serbian or Turkish 308 for about $247.
Backing out the cost of the other components for 500 rounds:
$66.50 bullets
$16.00 primers
$65.00 powder
The total for the expendables comes to $147.50
Which means that if I pay more for once-fired 308 brass than $100 per 500 ($20/100) then I am better off buying the ammunition.
Of course, this does not factor in the cost of my time, but it's a standard by which I judge the offering price of used brass.
I decided that a strategy for determining this 'good deal' price would be to take the price of ammunition with reloadable cases and back out what I pay for the 'expendable' components.
I can get 500 rounds of Serbian or Turkish 308 for about $247.
Backing out the cost of the other components for 500 rounds:
$66.50 bullets
$16.00 primers
$65.00 powder
The total for the expendables comes to $147.50
Which means that if I pay more for once-fired 308 brass than $100 per 500 ($20/100) then I am better off buying the ammunition.
Of course, this does not factor in the cost of my time, but it's a standard by which I judge the offering price of used brass.