TAB said:
When you buy in 1000 round its alot cheaper.
which is what I was comparing... not by buying boxs at a retail store.
Fair enough. I was quoting boxed prices originally, and we all know the advantage of buying in bulk!
But, I'd still save an equivalent of about $7/box, even with your price of $350/1000 for loaded ammo (which is equal to $17.50/box of 50).
That is a savings of about $134/thousand by rolling my own (assuming a moderate loading, and five uses per casing... some folks are getting many more uses from straight walled pistol cases, but I think five would be a reasonably conservative assumption).
Alternatively, you can consider this from the point of view that a number of folks do. That is: Buy factory ammo, shoot it, then reload the brass until you need to replace it with more factory ammo. At that rate you would buy your case at $350/thousand, then consider 4 additional loads on those pieces of brass, with no additional brass purchase... With that in mind, your next four cases of ammunition (until the brass was "shot") would cost you $178/case, all else being equal. Average the price of five cases of ammo (the store bought case, and the four you loaded yourself), and you will come to an average per-case price of $212/case.
When compared to only using the factory ammo, you are now looking at a savings of $138/case (very close to my other scenario). Anyway, that saves you $690 total on the five cases, which is more than enough to buy a good reloading setup. This might be a one-year supply of ammo for a serious shooter (perhaps even much less than that). So, if you do shoot a lot, reloading has a pretty quick return on your investment. If you are a box-or-two a year shooter, it probably doesn't.
(seeing your activity on this website, I can guess that you are in the "shoot-a-lot" category).
Someday, TAB... someday I'll convince you that handloading is a cost-saving endeavor... someday (maybe?)