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Old 11-29-2012, 01:22 PM
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I roughly est. my cost for a .38 Special at about 17 1/2 cents per round, including .05 for brass. If you don't count your brass, a lot don't as you can reload it dozens of times, it's 12 1/2 cents paying retail for bullets, powder & primers. That's $6.25 per box of 50. I don't know what a box costs now as I haven't bought any factory ammo for over 25 years. I load for everything I own except .22RF and .380. I just don't shoot enough .380 to justify buying the dies. You figure it out, $6.25 per box compared to what you are paying, and it won't take long to recover all the equipment and then you can shoot twice as much.
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