I'll rightfully admit to near total ignorance on the subject. As has been a monthly average for us, four hundred 9mm and one hundred fifty .38 special. All tolled, with equipment, material, time, etcetera, I've been lead to believe the savings would be slight.
yeah for me, i do it to keep a stock on hand for practicing.We shot 350 .45 ACP, 120 .32 Mag, 240 .38 Special, 156 .45 Colt and 120 12 ga. in a month. We missed one match or it would have been more. Don't ask me to figure out the cost, but I guarantee it would be expensive at retail prices.
I don't consider the cost of my presses or brass since they've been paid for years ago.
and that is exactly what i have no knowledge of.....the prices you guys/gals paid for everything regarding reloading.I shoot a crap ton for what it would cost to shoot factory. Do you stop driving when gas goes up?
The good old days are not going to return, but you can buy when you find a "bargain" considering today's prices. Some calibers offer more savings than others.
This guy knows what he's talking about. He's far more than just into reloading too. He has a machine shop and tool room bigger than a high school gym and knows how to use it all. No one will go wrong paying attention to him.i like this guy, he's the one i got a lot of info from when searching presses...which was why i jumped on the offer to buy the RSO's reloading room, after i had already bought my Lee
No question the bigger savings are based on caliber rather than simply how much reloading is done. Cost of components is based on commonality of that particular component and availability of the same.Reloading can save you a ton of money depending on the round or the components used. I reload 220gr subsonic .300blk for around 50 cents a round which usually sell for $2.00 a round. If I loaded supersonic 125gr .300blk I wouldn't save as much as the subsonic rounds.
Mine is a very similar story ... I started back in the early to mid 70's when I first started shooting competition. It was mostly handgun stuff in the beginning (HP Silhouette- big bore), but later on got involved with long guns over and above just my hunting rifles. Late 70's and into the 80's, the wife decided she wanted to get involved. We traveled a good bit around the SE to various comps and between us we would sometimes shoot 1200-1500+/- rounds/mo. So as time went on it became more an economic requirement than as at first just striving for better performance in my ammo.I started reloading .44 magnum after discovering what boxes of 50 sold for more than 20 years ago. My most common calibers are .32 Mag., .38 Special, .45 Schofield, .45 ACP and .45 Colt. I also do .380 and 9mm for plinking. Shotshells are getting spendy, too and reload 12 ga. for cowboy matches as well. I couldn't afford what the wife and I shoot if I had to buy retail and would likely shoot more .22.
Just think how much shooting the government could subsidize if it didn't spend all that money on illegals.