What do you spend on reloading in a year?

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In an average year how much do you think you spend on all reloading related costs? I thought might be interesting to just list the dollar figure...nothing else. I'm going to guess we'll see a very wide range from a few hundred to perhaps more than 10,000.

I'll go first:

$600
 
I spent around 1k just at PV last year. But I started the year with very little inventory. Im hoping to halve that going forward.
 
My last 9mm bullet order was $1600, thats about as far as I can go. You will no sooner get an answer out of me than get my wife to say how much she spends on shoes or clothes.
 
I'm too lazy to dig through invoices and emails for dollar amounts but I know that I haven't spent near as much this year as I did in 2011 or 2010.
As far as powder, primers and bullets my inventory is at a comfortable level.
 
Not all that much here. Maybe $400. Thats mostly primers and powder.
Got plenty of brass for 45LC, 38spl, 45acp.
Cast all my own lead. Have about 4-500lbs of ingots and another 600+lbs that need to be melted and cleaned.
Also cast for my 30-30 and 45-70.
Shoot mostly cowboy action and hunt with 30-30 or 45-70. Depending on brush.
I do buy .308 190gr HPBT for my 30.06. But it just a 300yrd range gun. Bored with that one now.
$400.
 
Generally I subscribe to the ignorance is bliss but I can make a few guesses.

If I figure all inclusive a round costs me about 10 cents to make and shoot and I shoot about 20,000 rounds per year, that means I spend about 200,000 cents or about $2000 on reloading supplies. I probably put $500 into "hardware" a year in terms of tooling and dies etc.
 
Very, very little, a few dollars here and there on equipment only. Last year at the most $40/50 dollars.

Bullets, I cast myself from free lead that I get for helping clean out the backstop at our indoor range.

Cases are all range pick-ups, so they are free.

Powder and primers, I stocked heavily a few years ago, as in 8 lb jugs of powder and not just a few, primers were purchased by the sleeve and more than likely enough to last my lifetime.

Jacketed rifle bullets, got plenty when various retailers had them on sale before the last election.

So I'm pretty well set with very little expenditure.
 
I consider myself a low volume reloader (4500 rounds over the last 365 days), so my annual expenditures would be on the meager end of the scale.

It's too hard to retrace actual figures, so I'll just say what I spend is not nearly as much as I'd like to spend (on stockpiling tried and true components and on experimental quantities of as yet untried components), but not nearly as much as the same number of factory rounds would have cost.

One great thing about reloading is that once you've lay out the cash for quality tools and equipment, most of it will outlive you. Another is that once you've leveraged sources for free or nearly free brass, that will last your lifetime as well. That keeps costs down.

I don't cast bullets yet, but I'm arranging for lead to come my way...
 
Peter M. Eick said:
Generally I subscribe to the ignorance is bliss but I can make a few guesses.

If I figure all inclusive a round costs me about 10 cents to make and shoot and I shoot about 20,000 rounds per year, that means I spend about 200,000 cents or about $2000 on reloading supplies. I probably put $500 into "hardware" a year in terms of tooling and dies etc.
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don't remember what i paid, but i just bought 32 lbs of powder and 12000 primers. was my 2nd order this year. also bought a new set of dies and a giraud annealer ($500) this year.
 
Had to cut back on many things as we are sending a grandkid to college--
BIG OUCH
May have spent about $2000 on reloading
Twice that on medical
 
Not a clue. I buy things as I need them and since the spousal unit shoots too, she's OK with it. Seems like I always have an order in and waiting for delivery, tho.
 
I've spent at least $2,000 on equipment and components in the past year. Now that I have the .375 H&H that number is likely to go up up up.
 
I have everything broken down into categories in Quicken. But I refuse to run a report to see what the total is. I know I spend more than I "need" to. But I figure the time spent searching for deals could be better spent reloading with the new tools I acquired in a timely fashion :)


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