Good thread,,lots of interesting comments.
I look at reloading as a hobby. I'm sure most everyone here does too. Might be someone here that reloads as a business, sells the reloads commercially, pays FETax, ect. As a business, you can calculate a $/hr on your labor to produce the finished product.
But as a hobby, it's your 'free time' invested. Don't like to reload?, don't invest this available free time you have in it. Your option then is to buy ammo. Some calibers are pretty cheap,,others not.
As a hobby, I just like reloading. I like to make low pressure loads for the elderly guns I normally shoot.
It's also the only way I can get ammunition for some of the odd calibers I shoot,,by making them. I enjoy that process too. WallyWorld doesn't stock .256 Gibbs Mannlicher but I can make it rather easily.
No one pays me to reload,,I don't play games on the computer but if I did, I wouldn't expect anyone to pay me by the hr to do so either. Nor go fishing, play golf or read a book. It's what you do with your free time.
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