Remington .44 ammo

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So just stopped at my local Academy Sports store to look for some 9mm ammo and Lo-and-behold...Remington .44 mag ammo for $54.95 a box....called the wife... bought a few :D, found it online for ridiculous amounts, couldn't pass it up. I'm in Florida.
 

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It's pretty good for factory ammo. I get 1,595 fps out of my 6.5" M629. It let's you know it's there, for sure. Glad you found some.
 
Yea, that Remington 180 grain load is hot and flashy, especially out of a short barrel.

Larry
 
Nice to see 44 Magnum ammo back & available!

A bit hotter than the 180gr XTP Hornady Custom, less than the Underwood variety with that bullet, but...

Still less than Hodgdons START load (with a DNR?) using 296/H110!

And that's just one reason why we reload!

Cheers!
 
BIGDOC said:
So just stopped at my local Academy Sports store to look for some 9mm ammo and Lo-and-behold...Remington .44 mag ammo for $54.95 a box....called the wife... bought a few :D, found it online for ridiculous amounts, couldn't pass it up. I'm in Florida.
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You need your wife’s permission to buy ammunition?
 
For about 500, you could be reloading those 44s
Never pay 50+ again
All you need is a quality single stage press like a RCBS rock chucker , you can pick them
Up used for 150 bucks
Straight wall cartridges are pretty simple to load .
I’m paying about $32/ 100 round box ,with the higher prices of components now
 
It's funny, my first reaction was $55/box was ridiculous and to say it's time to reload, but considering the cost of supplies right now, it's not guaranteed to be such a bad deal, particularly if you want/need a JHP projectile.
Looking at the Gunbroker/show prices for some stuff lately it's not unreasonable at all. The highest prices I've seen would be $.20 for a primer, $.45 for a bullet, about $.11 for powder, and another $.40 for new brass. Now nobody here is paying full scalper prices (I hope) but dang!
Assuming the latest prices I've seen for semi-available supplies and reusing one's brass it's about $.60/round for JHP. If you pay a thousand bucks for a somewhat efficient setup it's going to take a couple thousand rounds to break even on materials but if your time is worth anything at all to you and you want to spend more time shooting than reloading it could be a LOT longer of a payback. That doesn't even cover issues like some friends I have who simply don't have enough space to set aside to make the particular mess that reloading makes. A couple thousand is not a lot for some of us, particularly those of us who reload, but for the OP it might be more shooting than he'll do in long enough that it isn't worth it.
Sorry, didn't mean to rant there, just point out that $55 seems like a lot to those of us rolling our own, but it might be just fine for the rest of our fellow shooters.
 
teletech said:
It's funny, my first reaction was $55/box was ridiculous and to say it's time to reload, but considering the cost of supplies right now, it's not guaranteed to be such a bad deal, particularly if you want/need a JHP projectile.
Looking at the Gunbroker/show prices for some stuff lately it's not unreasonable at all. The highest prices I've seen would be $.20 for a primer, $.45 for a bullet, about $.11 for powder, and another $.40 for new brass. Now nobody here is paying full scalper prices (I hope) but dang!
Assuming the latest prices I've seen for semi-available supplies and reusing one's brass it's about $.60/round for JHP. If you pay a thousand bucks for a somewhat efficient setup it's going to take a couple thousand rounds to break even on materials but if your time is worth anything at all to you and you want to spend more time shooting than reloading it could be a LOT longer of a payback. That doesn't even cover issues like some friends I have who simply don't have enough space to set aside to make the particular mess that reloading makes. A couple thousand is not a lot for some of us, particularly those of us who reload, but for the OP it might be more shooting than he'll do in long enough that it isn't worth it.
Sorry, didn't mean to rant there, just point out that $55 seems like a lot to those of us rolling our own, but it might be just fine for the rest of our fellow shooters.
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Your words are true , but really a single stage is fine if you have a little time to kill
I load and shoot thousands every year - on a rockcrusher single stage
Had a Dillon but sold it as I wasn’t into fooling with it to get it to run , when you make mistakes with a progressive … you often get a lot of them lol .
Also you’re right the ballpark price I threw out was for 240gr. Hardcast
 
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But, "When you ain't got nuthin', you got nuthin' to load...!"

Cheers!

P.S. I would fully concur that 44 Magnum with a quality bullet may well be one of the most expensive handgun rounds to reload, especially now...? Looking back at my meager supplies I still think it would take a mass invasion of grizzlies to deplete my virtual arsenal (am I still allowed to use the term "arse"?) of components that allow me to beat that $0.60 (vs. NEW @ a $+ per!) like an old rug: reasonably priced primers at 4¢, bullets at 20-30¢, and it actually looks like the powder is still the 2nd highest outlay as my brass will last a lifetime...

P.P.S. That's without getting too esoteric, caliber-wise.
 
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