Very smart!Believe it or not, I used AI to help me work out the costs and savings... Tell it the price of all the kit and each component, the multiples you can buy components in, account for the ability to re-use cases, once-fired brass already owned, price per round of factory ammo, the quantity of each used over a year, blah blah blah
In the end it told me the exact minimum I'd have to spend initially, the number of each type of ammo I could make from that, savings and ongoing costs for year one, two, three, etc...
Geeky on my part perhaps, but very clever tech to work it all out and present the answers in clear format
!!PRICE OF BULLETS!!
- Thread starter swaro79
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Lee reloading kit 220£
Lee caliber tool kit 50£
Vithavuori powder 1kg 380(40gr) rounds 0,29£/round 117£
Barnes xxx 1.16£ /bullet
Primers 0.15£
= 518£ for the first 100 cartridges , 772£ for the first 300 cartridges. Add two boxes of practice ammo to get cases 70£ for 40 rounds of Lapua trainer, the cases may be used 4-8 times.
Sako Blade factory 308w 100£/20 300 cartridges 1500£
1500
-800
=700£ saved
Who the hell pays £5 a round for anything!
I’m a fairly active stalker, I’ve been out 4 times in the last 9 days. Even then I may shoot 4-6 rounds a month.
At all that rate it would take year and years to see the benefit of the reloading, many are in the same boat.
The fact is I also shoot with 2 clubs, and do pest and predator control so get through a couple of hundred rounds a month. That and the fact I shoot some calibres you can’t get factory ammunition for means reloading is definitely worth it.
I am paying £85 a box for copper in the .270”, and travelling an hour for the privilege!
I’m loading yew tree in .280 for about 70p a round. You wouldn’t do that at new prices though, or even old prices but I got the bullets and powder cheap.
I dont I reload. Some hunter here pay 2,6£ for the 1970s tecnology Norma Alaska, some stores can open the box and sell 5 cartridges if the hunter thinks they are too old to use a 20 box.
5£ per 100kg moose meat are not too bad.
No it’s not, not great for an 8kg muntie though.
Shootgun
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That’s probably because they were Federal Powershock ?went to get 2 packs of 150gr federal bullets the other day £110 poundwow i was shocked.
I’m really not looking forward to running out of my current stock of powders and bullets
£3.70 a pop!
I reload, but bought some Fox commercial ammunition to start out with a brand new 6.5x55 barrel on my Sauer. Thought that was bad at £64 a box......quicky bought some projectiles.....
The therapeutic side of reloading is probably a major draw for me too......
I reload, but bought some Fox commercial ammunition to start out with a brand new 6.5x55 barrel on my Sauer. Thought that was bad at £64 a box......quicky bought some projectiles.....
The therapeutic side of reloading is probably a major draw for me too......
Ed Bewsher (Edinburgh Rifles) was doing a great deal on Federal NLA in 30-06 recently - £20 a box IIRC
bluesako
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hi look for the dillon cost calcultor its free to use you put in how much you paid for your reloading bullets powder cases and primers and it will tell you how much it is per round or 50 or 100Believe it or not, I used AI to help me work out the costs and savings... Tell it the price of all the kit and each component, the multiples you can buy components in, account for the ability to re-use cases, once-fired brass already owned, price per round of factory ammo, the quantity of each used over a year, blah blah blah
In the end it told me the exact minimum I'd have to spend initially, the number of each type of ammo I could make from that, savings and ongoing costs for year one, two, three, etc...
Geeky on my part perhaps, but very clever tech to work it all out and present the answers in clear format
Back in 1982 when I first stood as a trader at the Bisley Pistol Anno Domini show I took fifty thousand CCI primers down to sell at £11 a thousand and after one hour they all went back in the van as everyone else was selling them as low as £9.50 per thousand! Which meant the only profit they made was on the thirty days line of credit they had with the importers plus maybe 2.5%.
If you think costs are shocking at home....
kenbro
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How do you know the answer is correct?Believe it or not, I used AI to help me work out the costs and savings... Tell it the price of all the kit and each component, the multiples you can buy components in, account for the ability to re-use cases, once-fired brass already owned, price per round of factory ammo, the quantity of each used over a year, blah blah blah
In the end it told me the exact minimum I'd have to spend initially, the number of each type of ammo I could make from that, savings and ongoing costs for year one, two, three, etc...
Geeky on my part perhaps, but very clever tech to work it all out and present the answers in clear format
Kb.
I bought 1000 murom for £20 about 10 years ago at the Imperial or Phoenix, can’t recall which.
I chronographed some of their 110 gr .308, it was only doing about 1400 ft-lb. Very accurate though!
I doubt the 180s in .308 are going to expand very well at any distance, they’ll be starting slow enough as it is.
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