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Reloading:Is it worth it?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hunter 257W" data-source="post: 4973526" data-attributes="member: 12277"><p>It is definitely worth it if you shoot much. You not only save money but you greatly reduce the chance of suddenly running out of ammo since most items are bought in quantities of at least 50 rather than 20 rounds of factory ammo. Bullets tend to be the one component that you build a load around and they are either sold 50 or 100 at a time. A pound of powder will load from 100 to 200 rounds for most rifle cartridges. Once you find a powder you like, you want to buy 8 lbs at a time and primers are usually bought at least 1,000 at once. I like to buy them by the case of 5,000 to minimize the Hazardous Material shipping charge. Once you build up a stock of components, you never suddenly run out of ammo. Also your components would all be from the same lot that you are sighted with if you shoot up all your loaded ammo and need to load more with components already on hand. You don't have that luxury with factory ammo. </p><p></p><p>As Snowwolfe said, if you can cast your own bullets you really cut cost but not sure I'd recommend getting into casting right now with scrap lead being so hard to find. There are however sources for certified lead alloys that are still much cheaper than jacketed bullets. Contrary to popular belief lead can be used in a lot of lower velocity woods deer rifles to fully match jacketed bullet performance. As long as velocity don't exceed more than about 2,200 ft/sec and bullet fit is right you can easily work up hunting loads with lead alloy bullets.</p><p></p><p>As others have said though, right now is a bad time to buy anything gun related. Darned near everything is sold out. Primers are almost extinct. Glad I stocked up when President Trump was in his early term and sales were offered with free Haz Mat on large primer orders. Wish I had bought even more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunter 257W, post: 4973526, member: 12277"] It is definitely worth it if you shoot much. You not only save money but you greatly reduce the chance of suddenly running out of ammo since most items are bought in quantities of at least 50 rather than 20 rounds of factory ammo. Bullets tend to be the one component that you build a load around and they are either sold 50 or 100 at a time. A pound of powder will load from 100 to 200 rounds for most rifle cartridges. Once you find a powder you like, you want to buy 8 lbs at a time and primers are usually bought at least 1,000 at once. I like to buy them by the case of 5,000 to minimize the Hazardous Material shipping charge. Once you build up a stock of components, you never suddenly run out of ammo. Also your components would all be from the same lot that you are sighted with if you shoot up all your loaded ammo and need to load more with components already on hand. You don't have that luxury with factory ammo. As Snowwolfe said, if you can cast your own bullets you really cut cost but not sure I'd recommend getting into casting right now with scrap lead being so hard to find. There are however sources for certified lead alloys that are still much cheaper than jacketed bullets. Contrary to popular belief lead can be used in a lot of lower velocity woods deer rifles to fully match jacketed bullet performance. As long as velocity don't exceed more than about 2,200 ft/sec and bullet fit is right you can easily work up hunting loads with lead alloy bullets. As others have said though, right now is a bad time to buy anything gun related. Darned near everything is sold out. Primers are almost extinct. Glad I stocked up when President Trump was in his early term and sales were offered with free Haz Mat on large primer orders. Wish I had bought even more. [/QUOTE]
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