Reloader math

[ubet]

Most guys that don't reload, just buy the cheapest crap ammo they can find. I was trying to explain, the main reason to reload rifle ammo is better accuracy vs the cost of cheap ammo where the savings aren't as large. For guys like you and me, we already know how much it costs to make or buy premium ammo but new reloaders are usually just looking at the cost of loading cheap components.

I misunderstood you. I have only bought 2 boxes of factory ammo for a centerfire rifle and it was federal gold metal match and it shot like **** too. So I have no idea on what factory ammo is really like.

[bubbapug1]

The fact is, if you buy a quality press, eentually you will get paid more for it than what you bought it for....as in you don't really own a press, you are renting it for free.

So it comes to the cost of components, and brass is essentially free too if you keep it after shooting it. How long does brass last? About 12 times for rifle, maybe the same for pistols, and 3 times for 50 bmg out of a M2HB or 6 times from a bolt gun.

The downside of reloading is you will shoot more, substantially more, as you think the ammo is "cheap" so you shoot more of it.

The upside is you can load what you want, and when it comes to rifle match loads, its about 2 cents more than regualr loads, while in the store match loads for 223 and 308 will run you a buck a piece.

With pistol you can run about 350 rounds an hour in a dillon 550, with rifle around 200...thats not including the brass prep, but Mattman will do that for you for around 3 cents a case...

[SeanCasey]

Math lies.

Three men go to stay at a motel, and the man at the desk charges them $30.00 for a room. They split the cost ten dollars each. Later the manager tells the desk man that he overcharged the men, that the actual cost should have been $25.00. The manager gives the bellboy $5.00 and tells him to give it to the men.
The bellboy, however, decides to cheat the men and pockets $2.00, giving each of the men only one dollar.

Now each man has paid $9.00 to stay in the room and 3 x $9.00 = $27.00. The bellboy has pocketed $2.00. $27.00 + $2.00 = $29.00 - so where is the missing $1.00?

It isn't missing, the math is done wrong. The 9*3=$27 they paid is already including the 2 the bellboy stole. If you take the $27 total payout motel+bellboy and add the three dollars refund you get $30.

The story misleads you into accepting bad math. I know this thread is about the cost of reloading, but I had to have a math nazi moment.

FWIW and IMO the ROI on reloading works out better when shooting odd-ball expensive calibers more than it does on common calibers.