it will cost me $141.12 to load 1000 rounds of 9mm. You aren’t going to find factory ammo that cheap.
9mm
7.5 c per for bullet
2.95c per for primer
1.2c per for powder
$11.7 per 100 rounds going by todays prices in bulk.
And for casual plinking/range blasting ammo, you can use pulled bullets for even greater savings.
These are current pricing from H&R active thread -
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/what-to-stock-up-on.855885/#post-11225563
5.3 cents per bullet (RMR 9mm mixed pulled plated bullets)
2.9 cents per primer (Powder Valley Winchester primer with free shipping and HazMat fee spread out from purchase of powder and primer)
< 1.0 cent per powder charge (Powder Valley Promo with free shipping and HazMat fee spread out from purchase of powder and primer)
$9 per 100 rounds or $4.5 per 50 reusing brass or using free range pick up brass.
If you shoot around 5,000 rounds a year (around 400 rounds a month), $5-$6 per 50 round savings will translate to $500 - $600 savings that will more than cover the cost of reloading equipment purchase the first year.
Think of saving $5,000 to $6,000 every 10 years. If you shoot more, cost savings could be over $10,000 every 10 years, just for 9mm. Read on for more savings.
And if you shoot .223/5.56, consider this.
Family switched to 9mm ARs during the last "Great Shortage" when 22LR was hard to find/expensive (comparable cost to reload 9mm) and compared to reloading .223/5.56, reloading 9mm is much easier than reloading .223/5.56 and shooting 9mm in ARs (using EndoMag) saves A LOT of money.
And shooting 22LR in ARs with CMMG 22LR conversion kits and GSG 1911 (Instead of 45ACP) for some shooting drills and fun plinking saves even more money as copper plated 22LR can be bought for just above $16/500 shipped -
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...15-20-500-shipped.853059/page-2#post-11226086
So combined savings from shooting 22LR and reloading 9mm, your savings over shooting factory 9mm/45ACP/.223/5.56 could be well over $1,500 - $2,000 a year, depending on how much you shoot. Imagine saving $15,000 - $20,000 every 10 years.