Is it actually possible to reload 9mm for less than $139/1000?

[RustyFN]

I don't reload yet but am very interested. Please correct me if I am wrong. Wouldn't one of the main advantages to reloading besides price be performance? I shot a friends Glock at a Glock match and there was very little recoil. Can you control recoil and accuracy by reloading? I think that and price would be perfect reasons for reloading.
Rusty

 

[strambo]

Please correct me if I am wrong. Wouldn't one of the main advantages to reloading besides price be performance?

Yes, your reloads will be tailored to whatever performance you desire, be higher quality (than the cheap ammo) and still cost less than the cheap stuff by a couple cents per round. Only downside is time...but Id rather spend an hour loading 400 rds, then spend 45mins to an hour driving to the store and back to buy them.

I load 124gr FMJs for about 8 cents per round...they are about 100 fps slower than my carry load (124 +p GDs) but approximate it a lot better than cheap 115 gr factory and don't batter my guns like the +Ps.

 

[spsowell]

"CPLofMARINES

$11.98 at wallmart for 100 win. 115 grn. fmj.


Semper Fi! "


Local Wally marts sell the WWB for $4.63/50 but charge $11.98 for the "value" box of 100. Makes you wonder where the value is there?

At the $4.63 price, I've not been able to convince myself to reload for 9mm yet. I have been collecting brass, though.

Saving a ton on reloading for my 10mm, .40, .45, and .223

 

[MCgunner]

I cast my own bullets from free range scrap, all I wanna pick up for free. So, my bullets are free. I can pick up all the brass I want out there, too, so brass is free. All I have to pay for is primers and powder, so I'm lookin' at $24 a thousand I reckon, that's $2.40 a hundred, $1.20 a box. That's cheaper than .22 LR Mini Mags, put it that way.

 

[DaveInFloweryBranchGA]

I cast my own bullets for 9MM and the load is customized to my pistol, so it's extremely accurate. Cost including top quality primers and powder is $1.70 for a box of fifty. You can do the math for a thousand off of that.

I highly suggest anyone who's reloading take a hard look at casting their own bullets out of wheel weights. Easy to acquire and it's easily hardened for higher velocities using water quenching or oven heating.

So yes, you can reload 9MM for waaay less than you can buy them off the shelf and they'll be cleaner (using Clays, especially) and way more accurate if you "roll your own."

Dave

 

[oldschool]

Glock 20 in 9mm?

With an 8 month old at home, I don’t have the time to reload .45’s for my Kimber or money to buy manufactured ammo for it (all going to cloths & diapers). So my solution may be to buy a 9mm pistol and buy store ammo but I really like my light IPSC/ steel plate loads so I'd probably end up reloading for it. I would love a 10mm and I’m thinking Glock 20 does anybody know if that pistol can be converted to 9mm or is it just as cheap/effective to buy a dedicated 9mm?

 

[DaveInFloweryBranchGA]

oldschool,

Buy diapers and focus on raising your child. Along the way, you'll find some time or another to buy firearms (milsurps are cheaper, btw), but your child will grow up all too fast and next thing you know, they'll be off to college.

When that happens, you'll have money and time to devote more to the luxuries of shooting. In the meantime, if you're tight on money, spend it on your kids and their raising. Fishing is good, for example, with cane poles.

How do I know all this high falooting wisdom? I have two, kids, that is. One has graduated college (with honors) and is getting married this spring. The other is graduating (with honors) this spring as well. I didn't have a lot of money over the years of raising them, but spent as much time as I could with them. Looking back, I wish I could have spent even more time.

Regards,

Dave

 

[MCgunner]

My suggestion is to get 'em potty trained...