Can’t really answer the question without more information.
If you don’t shoot it much, just use it for hunting and such, a box of 20 might last several years for $30. You can’t reload 20 rounds for $30, unless you don’t count equipment and component costs.
The only way reloading becomes “cheaper” is by shooting much more so the equipment costs are amortized. For example if we look at 100 rounds vs 20, we get.
100 rounds of $30/20 factory ammunition = $150
Lee challenger kit $147.
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1013011111
RCBS dies $34
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1011278027?pid=264330
$80 for 100 premium hunting bullets
$30 for powder
$4 on primers
Brass is free, if you already have it and clean it by hand vs buying equipment to do it for you.
= $295 for your first 100 rounds (likely going to be mor
So reloading is still more expensive than buying factory, almost twice as expensive.
Let’s keep going.
500 rounds of factory or 25 boxes at $30 = $750.
500 reloads
$147 Press kit
$34. Dies
$400 (500 premium bullets)
$120 (4 lbs of powder)
$20 (500 primers)
= $721
Now we have reached the point that the equipment had paid for itself in savings and our ammunition is now cheaper than factory, if we don’t count labor and all the other stuff we are undoubtedly going to buy.
Keep doing the math out to 1000, 10,000 and 100,000 and it just keeps getting better but would be completely pointless if you are just filling tags with the rifle and wouldn’t go through 10 boxes the rest of your life, it’s not going to be any cheaper.