How much do you people pay yourselves to go to a movie? How much do you pay yourselves for taking care of your kids?
I don't know how you can afford to cook your own meals at charging yourself $100.00/hr. My God, you'd starve to death. You'd have to eat at a restaurant every night.
How do you afford to pay yourself to shoot. You better quit before you go broke.
I don't understand this paying yourself thing. Like someone else said, unless your reloading is taking you away from working for money, your time has no value. It's the time you have to do what you want, when you want. If you don't want to reload, then don't, but I must ask, why are you posting here if you don't,
Do you pay yourself to take a shower, eat your meals, go shopping, How much do you pay yourself an hour for sleeping?
And I don't want to hear about people that don't have time to relaod, I work 12 hr days and I still find the time to do it. When I do find the time I make it count.
I don't figure how much money is lost because of what my time is worth. I figure how much I saved because of money I don't have to pay out.
That means I'm working for myself and my pay is the $4.00 a box for every box of 9mm I don't have to buy.
My Hornady press will load 600/hr. So in an hour's time I'm loading 12 boxes of ammo at a savings of $4.00/box = $48.00/hr I'm making by loading my own 9mm's.
At 2 boxed a week, I'm paying myself $416.00 a year for a very part time job of loading the 9mm. Add .357mag, 327FM, 243 Win, 308 Win, 30-06 Spring, 8mm Mauser and whatever else I load for, my part time wage keeps going up higher and higher.
I can't afford not to reload.
And, I control the quality and the recipe, so I get what I want when I want it, vs having to suffer with what an ammo company tells me I am going to shoot, or I don't shoot at all.