My experience & opinion as to costs of reloading now days.

[sigp220.45]

I reloaded off and on for 50 years. A couple of years ago I realized I never liked it.

I have all my gear in the basement. Its too heavy to bother with selling and shipping. My kids are shooters, but not interested in reloading. I’m pretty sure it is a dying hobby. I don’t know any younger folks who reload.

I shoot every week. Hell, I shot today. I just buy ammo.

 

[GypsmJim]

I reloaded off and on for 50 years. A couple of years ago I realized I never liked it.

I have all my gear in the basement. Its too heavy to bother with selling and shipping. My kids are shooters, but not interested in reloading. I’m pretty sure it is a dying hobby. I don’t know any younger folks who reload.

I shoot every week. Hell, I shot today. I just buy ammo.

You might be right. As we Boomers die out there will probably not be much need for the equipment, and of course revolvers will be door stops.

But all I know is that now when a LGS or Cabellas gets in a stock of primers they sell out in 2 days, and there is zero inventory of the powders that we like the most.

When I retired I started shooting more than ever, and thus reloading became necessary.

 

[Dave Workman]

I have been reloading for about 50 years, for three basic reasons. It saves money (usually), in varying amounts depending on market forces. I can get exactly what I want rather than what is available. Also, I find it to be therapeutic.

I've been at it at least 40 years, and there is one other B-I-G reason I've continued: I have NEVER worried about having ammunition during an ammunition shortage. I got so fed up with hoarders who would descend on gun shops and gun shows to buy up all the ammunition they could only to store it in their basements waiting for the world to collapse. They were self-fulfilling boobs who worried about the ammunition shortage when they, themselves, were a big part of the problem.
Yet there I sat at the reloading bench or in the front yard, smiling ear to ear that I could grab a box of cartridges, head for the range, make some noise, come back home, throw the empties in a tumbler and do it all over again. In the long run, I've saved some money, and I've had a heck of a good time. Good on ya, Robert.