Is shooting PPU cheaper than reloading?

[cervus]

I want 3/4" at 100yds..I am getting it in .308(150g)SP and. 243(100g)SP with PPU,using a Sako 75 and a Sauer 202 respectively...with the price of PPU at £12/£16 for a box of 20 is it cheaper than reloading? What price will PPU be when we all have to go lead free I wonder??

 

[Brno2e]

Yes and dont know, do you ?

 

[cervus]

Serbia would have to comply with an EU Directive on a lead ban..no question! Enjoy it while we can that,s my view

 

[Lateral]

If you choose the components carefully, and reuse, or acquire some once used brass, it will be cheaper to reload, although marginal at £12.00 /20, and for the difference, I wouldn't bother, given the time, & effort it takes to reload.

 

[cervus]

Agreed

 

[Muir]

I by unprimed Winchester 7x57 or 6.5x55 for about $75/100 here. PPU loaded ammo is just about the same cost. I shoot the PPU for off-hand practice and reload the cases to meet my own performance requirements.~Muir

 

[simon1979]

I have used ppu in both .243 and .308. The last boxs I brought I paid £10.50 a box for .243 and £12 a box for .308.
The seem ok, I haven't tried them in my 75 yet but fingers crossed.
I did start reloading but I have got the time to homeload and these ppu are cheap.
Is the lead ban a definitive

 

[cervus]

A lead ban is being fought in the EU by Member State,s hunting organisations .....but the Green lobby want it....FC in the UK are going lead free,I understand,if I was a betting man....?

 

[bewsher500]

it can be cheaper
I got mine down to about 45-50p for .270 with a £50 investment in a lee loader and a couple of bits.
the .222 is cheaper still with a 1/3rd of the powder and works out less than 30p a pop

the choice of ammo is the best part of reloading and the PPU I tried in .243 and .222 didnt group that well

 

[paul o']

the ppu ammo that i'v found has not been that good try geco at jo's cathill .243 was under a £100 a 100 think the .308 was just over i paid £20 a box in dorset

 

[blunderbust]

I have not personally shot using PPU but I have a couple of friends who swear buy it (.243 at 90 gr) on foxes out to 250 yrds +. On saying that, I had them out stalking and got a small Roe which was shot at no more than 50 meters through the back of the head (entered through the atlas joint) and it did not exit.

I will not use PPU but have used Geco 105 as has been mentioned and I am well impressed with the performance of these rounds. They can be got for less than a pound each and in some cases a lot cheaper. I am now reloading so experimenting at this time.

 

[Milligan]

Answer to your "is it cheaper than reloading?" depends heavily on volume.
For normal stalking applications i.e. <100 rounds a year including practice then factory will likely win out.
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[Paul at Fechan]

A lead ban is being fought in the EU by Member State,s hunting organisations .....but the Green lobby want it....FC in the UK are going lead free,I understand,if I was a betting man....?

got a heads up there are serious doubts now

 

[Radstorm]

Privi 308 is cheaper to buy then reload especially if you take the time involved.
.223 still cheaper to reload 25p to 30 pence instead of privi at 50pence

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[Simjim33]

If your rifle likes it and you get the kind of accuracy you want( for me thats a hit on a clay at 100 yards with a cold bore,) There is little piont in shelling out on componants!
When you add the time it takes( dependent on your perticular from of OCD) it will work out cheaper. But volume effects the cost.

As brewsher has said. Lee loaders can make great ammo.

 

[j0e_bl0ggs]

Only factory ammunition I buy is rimfire stuff. I cannot remember the last time I bought any CF ammunition - must be well over 25 years ago.
I doubt that I could recover the cost of all my reloading gear but then that was never the rationale for reloading in the fist place.

 

[Simjim33]

Only factory ammunition I buy is rimfire stuff. I cannot remember the last time I bought any CF ammunition - must be well over 25 years ago.
I doubt that I could recover the cost of all my reloading gear but then that was never the rationale for reloading in the fist place.

I agree with that.
It depends upon ones personal bench marks!
For many reloading is a hobby in its self.

If you take my bench mark of, a cold bore clay at 100 yards free hand, its true to say that I have never found a round that woudent do the job!

For the three calibers I have. .243, 260 and 30-06. The only one I have no option but to reload for is the 260!
The .243 and the 30-06 can both be catered for with both factory and home loads.
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[deerstalker.308]

I want 3/4" at 100yds..I am getting it in .308(150g)SP and. 243(100g)SP with PPU,using a Sako 75 and a Sauer 202 respectively...with the price of PPU at £12/£16 for a box of 20 is it cheaper than reloading? What price will PPU be when we all have to go lead free I wonder??

​Is ppu lead free then? Didn't think it was.......?

 

[cervus]

No it isn,t but it will have to be to comply if it is the EU legal requirement..my point was will PPU still be cheaper if it is lead free...I doubt it!

 

[palmer_mike]

No it isn,t but it will have to be to comply if it is the EU legal requirement..my point was will PPU still be cheaper if it is lead free...I doubt it!

Will ppu still be as cheap lead free, probably not. But all the other makes if forced to go lead free will also get much more expensive, so you may find ppu remaining the cheapest around.