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Originally Posted by Joewisc
Shooting .357 mag or .38 special ammo. Trying to calculate at what point would it pay to start saving brass and invest in reloading gear. Price of factory ammo varies widely -- from roughly 30 cents to a dollar per bullet depending on volume, etc.
I average 100-200 rounds a week.
Somebody help me do the math to justify a look at reloads.
Thanks
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My real world costs as I got into reloading earlier this year and load 38 for target (PPC).
I bought brass, 1200 for $50 - cleaned, inspected, deprimed. They should last a very very long time. You need a lot of brass so you're not cleaning/reloading every week/time you want to shoot.
I got 1000 148 lead wadcutters for $60.
A lb of bullseye for around $20 and load 2.8gr so a lb will do 2500 rounds.
1000 win primers for $30.
So one assembled round costs me about 10c. Not much more than quality 22LR ammo!
So a 'box' of 50 is $5.
A box of 50 store bought is what, $20? 25? Say 40c each.
You save 35c on every round.
I got a loadmaster press, tumbler, elec scale, book..about $350 - 400 should get you loading progressively.
So you're break even point is $400/35cents saved or 1150 rounds.
At 200 a week thats what, a month and a half?
With my loadmaster I get a real 300-350 rounds per hour out of it, inspected and ready to shoot. So if you have 1000 cases you can reload for 3 hours ish and shoot for 5 weeks.