I am pricing out the reloading options for my new Rem 7600 in .243.
My goal is to get a decent practice ammo cheapest.
The cheapest off-the shelf ammo seems to be about 60 cents a round.
Reloading:
Case (Remington) 18 cents even used 9 times is 2 cents per use
Bullet (Remington 100gr or 80 gr PSP) 7 cents
Powder ~$25/pound 40 grain (25*40/7000) is 14 cents
Primer 2 cents
Total 25 cents - over half of it for powder? Is that correct?
I thought of swaging bullets out of 22 cal. brass but even if lead was free, I would have to shoot over 9000 rounds to pay off the cost of required swaging dies. 7 cent bullets are just too cheap to bother.
Somehow I was under impression I could keep the cost of reloads under 15 cents.
miko
My goal is to get a decent practice ammo cheapest.
The cheapest off-the shelf ammo seems to be about 60 cents a round.
Reloading:
Case (Remington) 18 cents even used 9 times is 2 cents per use
Bullet (Remington 100gr or 80 gr PSP) 7 cents
Powder ~$25/pound 40 grain (25*40/7000) is 14 cents
Primer 2 cents
Total 25 cents - over half of it for powder? Is that correct?
I thought of swaging bullets out of 22 cal. brass but even if lead was free, I would have to shoot over 9000 rounds to pay off the cost of required swaging dies. 7 cent bullets are just too cheap to bother.
Somehow I was under impression I could keep the cost of reloads under 15 cents.
miko