Reloading Inventory

[bayjoe]

I am just curious if anybody else has went into the reloading room, looked around and tried to figure out how much money you have invested in that little room that has consumed so many hours?
I've been reloading for over 40 years and have accumulated a lot of stuff. I bought my Rock Chucker around 1980 something and if i remember correctly i paid $60.00. And that's just a starter.
I roughly figure at today's prices (Counting primers) my little room is worth around $20,000 and that doesn't count firearms.
I do some swapping ever now and then on stuff i don't use, but for the most part i will not part with most of it.
Just curious if anybody else is reflecting during this time of craziness

 

[film495]

Is that in regular era prices, or the now inflated values? Either way - sounds like a good accumulation.

 

[Bfh_auto]

I try not to think about it.
Mine would but a pretty nice truck. If you include guns. I could buy my farm all over again.
Good thing my wife likes guns and shooting.

 

[WestKentucky]

I don’t try. I don’t even try to try. The reloading bench has kept me going at times when I was struggling with a lot of things so realistically I may be money ahead by cost avoidance of therapists and other professional help. Also, if shooting and reloading was not my hobby motorcycles WOULD be and almost was. Hard tail bobber frames, S&S motors, and paintjobs are a lot more costly on their own than a new gun complete with reloading tools, and a pile of consumables. Land to shoot on is the only valid comparison to the cost of the motorcycle tinkerers hobby.

 

[Casefull]

I’m not reflecting, somethings you don’t add up. LOL

 

[bayjoe]

Come to think of it, reloading is relaxing. Almost therapeutic

 

[jmorris]

I am just curious if anybody else has went into the reloading room, looked around and tried to figure out how much money you have invested in that little room that has consumed so many hours?

I keep waiting on my wife to do inventory on her shoes and purses, you know, ladies first...

 

[LoonWulf]

as a friend of mine says when he doesn't want to do something...."eehh......planning on thinking about it"

I made the mistake of figuring out exactly how much money I spent on paintball stuff for a year once....and only once......I found out that I'm awfully good at finding money for stuff I want.

 

[dcloco]

One can also look around that room and see a savings account, at least to some degree.

 

[LightninST]

You only go around Once this is not a warm up Enjoy yourself and others while you can !
Try adding up the happy times and smiles those last forever and are priceless !
So we spent a couple bucks on Shootin Stuff But look how much we saved

 

[Riomouse911]

If I didn’t shoot another round, reload all of the primed cases in the coffee cans on my shelf, and added in the entire gun safe contents...For sure one, maaaaybe two of my kids’ full 4-year college tuition... at a State school.

But I haven’t thought about that, cause it ain’t gonna happen .

Stay safe.

 

[Zahn]

My reloading room has cost me a lot, but it's saved me money as compared to buying ammo at retail. And the time I spend reloading is sort of like fishing to me; it's quiet time, focusing on something that takes me away from anything else that might be on my mind.

But you know the old joke, "After I die I hope my wife doesn't sell everything for what I told her I paid for it."

 

[Pivot Dr]

Nope! Don’t want to know, it’s all long since paid for it’s self just in the hours of time with a shrink that I didn’t pay for. I’ve got a lot more equity than if I had spent the money on cigarettes, booze, movies, and wild women.

 

[Rembrandt]

Throughout my life I tend to overdo things, if some is good....more is better. Never satisfied with just getting by, always a desire to go a bit further. Afraid that's what happened with this most enjoyable hobby of reloading. Have far exceeded what I can use, now justify the excess as doing it for the kids and grand kids.

 

[redneck2]

It’s guns, or cars, or golf equipment. Most people have some obsession. Guy I fish with has a high disposable income. Fishes musky mainly. We figured he had $6,000 in lures in two of his maybe dozen tackle boxes. Doesn’t include the boat, motor, $50,000 pickup to pull it. This is to catch fish that you take a picture of, then release.

As a nation we are absolutely spoiled rotten with the excesses we enjoy. And that’s the way I like it

 

[Barbaroja]

as a friend of mine says when he doesn't want to do something...."eehh......planning on thinking about it"

I made the mistake of figuring out exactly how much money I spent on paintball stuff for a year once....and only once......I found out that I'm awfully good at finding money for stuff I want.

That’s why I quit playing tournaments in the early 2000. Sure is fun but it’s a serious money pit! Unlike firearms related stuff , paintball gear doesn’t hold or gain value lol

 

[reloaded_in_pa]

I don't think of the equipment and supplies as dollar signs. Reloading has allowed me to shoot so much more than when I just purchased ammo. It has been and always will be a hobby for me. You can never put a price on that.

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

That reminds me of a poster I saw many years ago (before memes were invented).

Pic of an old, worn out old cowboy, says:

"Most of my money was spent on booze and women. The rest I just wasted."

Everybody needs a hobby. For some, it's using a little stick to hit a ball. For others, it's making noise and waves on the water. Some drink and chase skirts. Some look at the sky at night. I have a brother that owns a telescope worth more than most automobiles.

Reloading and shooting is just a way to stay (mostly) out of trouble.

I don't even want to guess how much I've spent in 30+ years of doing this. Doesn't really matter, if it wasn't this it would be something else.

 

[mmb617]

I don't inventory to figure out how much money I spent but rather to see which components I'm low on and how long I can continue shooting at my current rate if I couldn't get anymore supplies.

I only reload 3 calibers so it's not that hard. I have a spreadsheet set up that does all the calculations. Completed rounds I weigh and plug in the weights to get the number of rounds. Primers are on separate shelves for SPP, SRP and LPP, those are counted to the closest hundred and input to the sheet. Full bottles of powder are counted and partial bottles weighed. When that info is input it gives me the number of rounds that can be loaded with each powder since I use a different powder for each caliber.

Another area takes the number of completed rounds plus the number of rounds that can be loaded using the lowest component level to give me total available rounds, and after I input how many rounds of each I shoot each week it tells me how long I can continue at that rate.

This whole process (now that I have the spreadsheet set up) takes me maybe 15-20 minutes and gives me useful information.

 

[TheBruce]

No point in even trying, I can't count that high.

 

[Pat Riot]

The money spent on my hobbies has brought me priceless memories that cannot be tallied.

 

[deputy bruce]

I don't know but I get that warm fuzzy feeling

 

[FROGO207]

If you put a $500 price tag on bricks of primers I have almost twice what the OP states in primers alone! I do not want to even think about what I have did cost me. I just enjoy shooting, reloading and casting. Keeps me in the poor house and out of therapy.

 

[hdbiker]

I made the rounds of all the local gun stores and pawn shops the other day. The gun inventory is a joke, almost nothing to buy that you would want, and what's left have inflated prices. Ammo is coming back a little bit but reloading supply's are sold out. So I called around to three major mail order chain stores looking for Lee bullet molds. Was told they hadn't had the popular molds sense last October. Last resort I called Lee Precision about ordering a couple new molds, Custer Service wasn't taking calls right now !!! hdbiker

 

[Mark_Mark]

I got about 1.8 million dollars in inventory, in a $300 shed