reloading vs store bought

[RustyFN]

I have run cost analysis on .40S&W because I plan on getting into reloading soon.

I can purchase 100 rounds of WWB at WalMart for $19.99... cheapest I've found so far.

I can reload 100 rounds of copper plated bullets for ~$10.34 and 100 rounds of lead bullets for ~$8.04

I bet they will also shoot better than the WWB.
Rusty

 

[CTPistol]

reloading definitly is not only about saving money...

will you? - YES. even if just in .45 and 9mm. It costs about half to roll your own. You will probably shoot more though, as you pick up your brass, clean it, and make more cheap...initial investment? I spent about 1K. I also bet I can sell it all for about the same if I ever get out of reloading.

BUT, its more of the hobby, its fun, its relaxing, and its nice to know you can always make up 5-10K rounds with what you have on your bench.

Plus Walmart simply sucks, its sucks just to walk in the place and deal with the morons who work and shop there..nevermind hope they have (or can find) the ammo you want. Reloading is freedom from Walmart land.

reloading has completed my shooting hobby.

 

[gandog56]

Here, this might help:

http://www.handloads.com/calc/loadingCosts.asp

Beat me to it, ya dang whippersnapper!

 

[Noxx]

I started reloading very recently, so I am not drawing on a great pool of experience, but even in the "cheap" 9mm my savings seem pretty significant.

Without the cost of brass, which I have been saving for a while before I started so I have literally thousands of cases laying around ready to clean and use, I can load 9mm at @6.5c per round. The cheapest factory loads available to me locally start at 20c a round and move up quickly.

Certainly if time is a financial factor to be considered it changes the picture, however the time I spend reloading I would otherwise spend sleeping / in front of the tube / goofing off on the internet, so I don't place any dollar value on it.

 

[Wedge]

The first pistol I bought was a .45 Colt.

I started reloading shortly after that purchase.

1st - I wasn't able to find anything under $0.50 a shot. Shoot a cylinderfull and there goes $3
2nd - That $3 was hardly satisfying since any of the cheaper ammo was not very accurate.

So for Christmas my wife got me a reloading set-up and I basically paid for everything in just a couple of months given that no one makes a good .45 Colt load and anyone who does charges over $1/shot for it!

Now I am buying a progressive to reload for 9mm. I think that will take me another 6 months to "break even" but the ammo will be tuned for my gun.

 

[actionflies]

I think it cost me about the same but I'm shooting twice as much and it's a fun hobby. The bigger the caliber the more money you will save.