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I gotta call BS. Hornady 55 grain SP cost me $.07 a round. Powder $.07 a round. Primers are $.03 a round. $.17 a round and brass is $.05 once fired and can be reloaded many times. We are talking $.01 a round amortized cost. That is $180 per 1000 for very high quality ammo. You can't find Wolf steel cased garbage that cheap, you cant find wildly inaccurate Freedom Munitions that cheap and the closest equivalent ammo is $.25 a round.
To me, reloading is way better ammo at sub cheapest crap ammo prices. $.18 a round to reload, $.20 to $.22 for Wolf/Tula steel cased, poorly reloaded mixed head stamp brass cased ammo for $.22 to $.25 a round.
A 10-25% discount for WAY better ammo is not insignificant. And you get ammo that is twice as accurate, matching headstamps, etc. .vs mixed headstamp, unknown powder charges, 3 MOA accuracy junk. I do not run steel cased in my guns, so for me, it's a 20-30% cost savings.
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As the title says.
I reload most of my ammo, but the fact is that my cost to handload cheap plinking rounds is only slightly cheaper than buying factory. That calculation is a lot different when loading match grade or high end hunting ammo, but I digress.
Trying to decide between using brass case remanufactured ammo or steel case commie ammo. With respect to reman ammo, being a reloader, I am acutely aware that it has to be done properly or Bad Things occur.
Who are the reputable commercial reloaders, who don't cause KBs?
I gotta call BS. Hornady 55 grain SP cost me $.07 a round. Powder $.07 a round. Primers are $.03 a round. $.17 a round and brass is $.05 once fired and can be reloaded many times. We are talking $.01 a round amortized cost. That is $180 per 1000 for very high quality ammo. You can't find Wolf steel cased garbage that cheap, you cant find wildly inaccurate Freedom Munitions that cheap and the closest equivalent ammo is $.25 a round.
To me, reloading is way better ammo at sub cheapest crap ammo prices. $.18 a round to reload, $.20 to $.22 for Wolf/Tula steel cased, poorly reloaded mixed head stamp brass cased ammo for $.22 to $.25 a round.
A 10-25% discount for WAY better ammo is not insignificant. And you get ammo that is twice as accurate, matching headstamps, etc. .vs mixed headstamp, unknown powder charges, 3 MOA accuracy junk. I do not run steel cased in my guns, so for me, it's a 20-30% cost savings.
The cost savings is definitely there not considering labor rates. It can definitely be a great hobby to save money, but what is your time worth, if you have time available? Maybe OP works doubles 6 days a week, or maybe he makes great money and doesn't want to spend the time because his labor rate is so high he could go do some OT and make far more than he'd save.
I'm in the category of no time to spend, so this question is quite valid.
What's the break even cost as well? A single stage press setup can be had quite cheaply as far as I know. But it's slow. What, 200 rds per hour?
If you go full retard and whip out the credit card, on a progressive, you can easily drop 1500, no?
How long might it take you to save $1500? Considering you make 5.56 for $170/case, and a good brass case goes for around $300/case, you're saving $130. So we need to make over 10,000 rds to break even in that example.
In OP'S case, does he even shoot that much to make it worth it? Maybe he's a case a year shooter. $1500 investment, plus labor, to take 10 years to break even on the investment.
Do NOT misconstrue that to be an anti-reloading argument. It CAN certainly save thousands, and produce much more reliable and accurate ammo. For some though, due to time/space/money, it's not worth it.