Jolly Green
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I've been interested in reloading and sketched up an excel sheet to see if it will save me from buying .49 cent shots at SAMCO. I've read elsewere that by reloading 7.5 swiss you can drop it to almost 0.20 per round. I unfortunately found otherwise.
Heres the quick breakdown of it all:
Lee aniversary single stage -- 80.99
length guage/shell plate -- 6
calipers -- 20
Redding 2 die set 7.5mm -- 64.99
This puts my start up press at about $175 -- not bad
Actual reloading components
Bullet (sierra 30 cal 168 HPBT MK) -- 172.99/500cnt.
Powder IMR 4064 -- 21.99/1lbs.
Winchester .284 brass (to be resized) 56.99/100
primersCCI 29.99/1000
Adding this to the initial gives me around $455
(Thats ~2 packs of gp11)
Running cost:
Initial cost includes 500 bullets, 100 reusable brass, 1000
only limited by powder up to 500
than need to purchase bullets again
so to reach 500 it will cost around $70 more in gunpowder yeilding ~$520 start up
after that to make another 500 and reach my first 1,000 it will cost
$80 dollars in powder and $172 in bullets
This levels my running cost to ~$252 per 500 negating primer cost and
eventual brass exchanging
This produced $0.50 per shot
Please tell me I did something wrong or offer a way better solution
p.s. I think I may have confused grains w/ grams in the powder calculations
Heres the quick breakdown of it all:
Lee aniversary single stage -- 80.99
length guage/shell plate -- 6
calipers -- 20
Redding 2 die set 7.5mm -- 64.99
This puts my start up press at about $175 -- not bad
Actual reloading components
Bullet (sierra 30 cal 168 HPBT MK) -- 172.99/500cnt.
Powder IMR 4064 -- 21.99/1lbs.
Winchester .284 brass (to be resized) 56.99/100
primersCCI 29.99/1000
Adding this to the initial gives me around $455
(Thats ~2 packs of gp11)
Running cost:
Initial cost includes 500 bullets, 100 reusable brass, 1000
only limited by powder up to 500
than need to purchase bullets again
so to reach 500 it will cost around $70 more in gunpowder yeilding ~$520 start up
after that to make another 500 and reach my first 1,000 it will cost
$80 dollars in powder and $172 in bullets
This levels my running cost to ~$252 per 500 negating primer cost and
eventual brass exchanging
This produced $0.50 per shot
Please tell me I did something wrong or offer a way better solution
p.s. I think I may have confused grains w/ grams in the powder calculations
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