.308 Norma
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Yep. Even my 500-watt lead melting furnace (for casting bullets) doesn't cost as much per minute to operate as my wife's 1,875-watt hair dryer. The key words in that sentence are "per minute" though. My wife probably doesn't run her blow dryer for 10 minutes a day. Back when I was into casting my own bullets though, I sometimes ran my lead melting furnace for 4 hours at a time, twice a week.Your wife's hair dryer costs more to operate !!
Even at that I never noticed our power bill going up when I was doing a lot of casting, and that's not the reason I quit. I quit casting my own bullets because simply I wasn't enjoying it.
Don't get me wrong though - I still like cast handgun bullets, and I shoot a lot of them. I just prefer paying someone else to cast them for me.