Re: Any of you all \"Roll your own?\"
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2 questions:
Do you, personally, save money reloading? How often do you get mis-fires?
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I had never worked it out until you asked, here's the cost breakdown for this particular .45 Colt load, using 9 grains of powder/round:
1000 rounds of brass @ $100 = 10cents per round of brass
1000 primers @ $20.00 = 2 cents per primer
1 pound "Unique" powder @ $21.60/pound = 3 cents per charge
(there are 7000 grains in one pound)
500 cast lead bullets @ $30 = 6 cents per bullet
For this particular load this is a grand total of 21 cents/round.
Lets aay I decided to use a jacketed bullet, for a Nosler 250grain Jacketed Hollowpoint, its $13 per 100, or 13 cents per bullet.
This gives us a grand total of 28 cents per round.
Black Hills .45 Colt 250 grain Lead Round Nose ammo is $212 per 500, or 42 cents per round. So as you can see theres definitely money to be saved. The kicker is, you only have to buy the brass the first time, then you just collect up your empties and reload them, saving you 10 cents per round from there on out. Brass does wear out, my current lot of brass has gone through 10 reloadings so far. But should last 15 or 20 at the low power loads I use. I load up some mulekicker loads also, but those are for hunting, so the majority of my reloading is for these "plinking" loads.
I have never had a misfire in the thousands of rounds I have loaded. That's not to say that it will never happen, but if you pay attention to what you are doing, you can load ammo that is more accurate and reliable than factory ammo. If misfires were a problem, I would probably stick to factory ammo. I don't wanna hear a "click" when I'm s'posed to hear a "kaboom!"
I am just now getting into bullet casting, where I pour my own bullets, which will save me even more $$$$$. /forums/images/graemlins/thumb.gif
