theothermike
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I picked up 100 new starline 45 Colt cases for $25 at cabellas the other day, with loaded ammo going for $40 a box the choice isn't hard
For 45 Colt I just bought new Starline brass. You could go the route of buying the cheapest cowboy loads out there (relatively speaking) and save the brass. Brass for 45 Colt should last a good while so I didn't mind buying new, and it's tough to find at the range here. It seems pretty expensive to buy as well so your savings add up fast.
-Jeff
I bought new brass for my 357 and 44mag because I wanted to shoot softer than the full house loads, and the brass is easy to collect. Never did a cost analysis to see if buying new ammo would have been cheaper. But then I didn't want to shoot full house loads either, or go through enough factory loads to get the amount of brass I wanted.
Now for my wife's 380, it looks like buying new ammo and just reusing the brass is cheaper for several reasons, the biggest being, much of her brass runs out onto the range and can't be retrieved.
What kind of decision points do you guys use to determine whether to buy new brass, or just new ammo to build up your brass stockp
For 380 bass I would just buy once fired brass.
Buying new loaded ammo is not cheap and the odds of you finding 50% of it aer slim to none. It disappears into black hole somewhere.
Just an example. you can search around. I know folks have purchased from this place.
http://www.evergladesammo.com/brass/handgun-brass/380-auto-fired-range-brass.html
First I might mention that if you don't want full power loads in your .357 and .44 mag why not try .38 and .44 Special? They're both very soft in a factory load.
Exceptions do exist like with the 7.62x54R where the only brass available is very expensive while PPU ammo is not.
I did the same. The price was right, I got plenty of En Bloc clips with the ammo and as a bonus the ammo was fairly accurate too.Yup, several years ago, I bought some CMP surplus Greek 30-06 ammunition where the cost per round was equal or
less than the price for new, unloaded cases. As a bonus, I got to "unload" it in the process.