jr_roosa
Member
It all depends how you work the numbers.
I use $0.15 of material to load .45ACP with laser-cast lead bullets, and that compares to about $.31/round for WWB at walmart.
I use $0.01 to load .38 special since I have some home-made cast bullets and a couple thousand small pistol primers that I was given as a gift. I haven't shopped for .38 special, but I'd assume it's about $.30 per round or so.
I use $0.25 to load .45acp JHP that would cost about $1.00/round.
I use $0.35 to load .30-30 that would cost $0.70/round.
Despite all of this "savings" it's cost me $442 to load $293 worth of ammo (800 rounds so far), and I was given most of my reloading gear for free.
Also, I don't think I bought 800 rounds of centerfire ammunition in my entire life before I started reloading one year ago. Maybe if you count shotgun shells, but I don't reload those...yet.
At around 1000 rounds or so I'll break even, but as soon as I get another piece of gear I go back in the hole again for another 100 or 200 rounds.
-J.
I use $0.15 of material to load .45ACP with laser-cast lead bullets, and that compares to about $.31/round for WWB at walmart.
I use $0.01 to load .38 special since I have some home-made cast bullets and a couple thousand small pistol primers that I was given as a gift. I haven't shopped for .38 special, but I'd assume it's about $.30 per round or so.
I use $0.25 to load .45acp JHP that would cost about $1.00/round.
I use $0.35 to load .30-30 that would cost $0.70/round.
Despite all of this "savings" it's cost me $442 to load $293 worth of ammo (800 rounds so far), and I was given most of my reloading gear for free.
Also, I don't think I bought 800 rounds of centerfire ammunition in my entire life before I started reloading one year ago. Maybe if you count shotgun shells, but I don't reload those...yet.
At around 1000 rounds or so I'll break even, but as soon as I get another piece of gear I go back in the hole again for another 100 or 200 rounds.
-J.