Is reloading cheaper? The total cost of reloading

anytime somebody stumbles into this room they see these presses and then they want to see how it works first question I ask is is it cheaper than buying store-bought you know low-quality ammo I'm going to cover that I'm going to go so if you if you're interested in reloading and you don't have any equipment will cover the exact cost of how much it takes me to make this nine-millimeter 147 grain bullet scratch the press if I had to buy the press and everything else the prices on the press and a lot of the other one-time buys they're all coming from Midway USA and they're all current prices as of October 10th 2013 this right here is LEED Pro 1000 press set up a nine millimeter bleep Pro one thousand nine millimeter kit comes with the dies the right shell plate everything you need to get started reloading the only thing that you would need to buy on the side is this red funnel you know what that does you take a handful of the cases and you don't them in there you shake it around and all the cases fall in and that's what feeds the press if you don't have the funnel it doesn't come with the phone you have to put the cases in one at a time it takes forever so the press is 174 ninety nine this funnel is $11.50 that takes care of all you need as far as the press gets the there's a couple other things you need you need a digital scale capable of weighing and grains this is from Frankfurt Arsenal it's $29.99 or made by Frankfurt arson alter everything here is coming from Midway so micrometer this is $20 Frankfurt Arsenal and you need a case tumbler that cleans your brass once it's fired so once you find your brass it's dirty it hits the ground you pour the brass in here the shakes around and it cleans all the stuff off your brass it comes with everything you need to get your brass cleaning that's the Frankfort Arsenal tumbler kit it's the quick and easy case tumbler and that's seventy six ninety-nine so the essential stuff you need I just listed off the press the scale the micrometer and the tumbler that's and this finally that's two hundred and ninety three dollars and 46 cents okay and that's all that stuff's at one time by the media and the tumbler you have to change every once a while and that's really dirty cheap it's like eight bucks for the enough media to fill the corn cow stuff alright let's get onto the consumables your powder your bowl of your primer so I'm using power pistol this is a one pound jug it's $20 now get a figure inside of this nine-millimeter bullet there's 4.5 grains of powder so I'm getting inside of a pound of powder there's 7,000 grains so I'm getting over 1,500 rounds per pound with the powder okay your next thing bullets I'm using Rainier 147-grain hollow points this is a thousand round box here and that is a hundred and twelve dollars last thing you need well I guess not really Lessing are the primers a small pistol primer is the CCI there are 39 bucks per thousand again with the powder and the primers you're going to want to get that local you don't want to order that online because it will charge you hazardous material fee to ship it it will be like another 30 bucks on to the shipping so powder and primers you want to find local price is going to vary a little bit but okay so brass you need brass let's say if you're not picking it up or you don't already have it you can get that usually you can get once fire brass online like on Amazon or whatever or you can go to like your local range and get it in the average price for nine-millimeter brass once fired brass is 25 bucks per 500 okay so for our powder our primers our bullets in our brass it's all will be one hundred and ninety six dollars so we're in it up 500 bucks right now and that's got enough materials and the tools needed to reload a thousand rounds of 9-millimeter 147-grain columns now let's look at a low-end PowerPoint go with Wolff gold 147-grain Howell point it's for a box of 50 its $24.99 alright so let's do our let's do a price break down here now the brass I'm not the brass is I'm not counting in this the price because its reeyou it's it's reusable so it's not that's reasonable to an extent so it's kind of excellent rats can be fired multiple times like this has been fired at least ten times so that's just kind of the 25 bucks for the 500 I'm not I don't even add that in because you get to reuse it so many times but if you were going to add it in you want to basically add in five cents per shot to what I'm going to read off this list but in all reality like I said cuz you use no more than once every time you reload it the price drops down to the cost so I'm just going to leave that alright so let's go with a box of wolf it's $24.99 this bullet for a box of 50 would cost 8 bucks so let's go with 500 500 to the wolf which is medium grade to low grade in is $249.99 for 500 rounds so this per 500 rounds is 80 bucks you've already saved $169 for that 500 rounds so they have enough materials to make a thousand rounds so thousand rounds of wolf at the $24.99 is going to be 500 bucks with our reloads a thousand rounds is going to cost 160 bucks and it's good see here so you saved 339 bucks by reloading it yourself let's recap the cost of the press press was 293 dollars now you've saved 339 dollars the first thousand rounds you've reloaded so you've paid for the the press and then some you actually paid for the press and your powder but your powder is not empty because like I said you get 1,500 rounds while more than 1,500 rounds out of that one pound of powder for nine-millimeter so we still have enough powder to you another 500 rounds so reloading is cheaper it depends on the materials you use I mean if you're using some crazy super expensive bullets and powder but this is the standard stuff it's not low-end reloading stuff I mean the press the stuff is kind of this is the value press for sure but you know I mean it'll take you longer if you want to spend the money and get it done for us it's going to take you longer to recoup your investment but this functions and it's it's high-value I mean you can't beat 174 dollars for a progressive press it's working so on our thousand rounds we've saved three hundred and thirty nine dollars the press the press the scale the tumbler the micrometer cost three hundred bucks so we're 40 bucks a head or powder cost twenty bucks so we're still are still ten bucks a head and that's after the first thousand so it really boils down to how much do you shoot I'll easily shoot ten thousand rounds in a year so it'd be dumb for me to go buy boxes of these bullets at that price compared to reloading so that's where the savings is now if you shoot you know 100 rounds a month probably not going to really save you any money well it will in the long run it's just going to take you a long time to build up the savings so stemming the cheaper to reload another another thing with reloading is you got to understand that you're getting with with box animal you're getting what you know there are set specifications there overall case the amount of powder when you reload yourself you can combine different bullets cases primers powder amounts you can go for low recoil hard-hitting you get to experiment and see what shoots the best for you out of your gun another good plus is hollow points I mean if you look at like the critical duty your critical defense hollow points for personal protection like my carry guns a clock and I carry these bullets in it now those critical defense there's like two they come in like twenty in a box and they're almost twenty dollars a box it's almost a dollar around now unless you're rich you can't practice with that ammo so most people will shoot you know generic 9-millimeter ammo and then they'll you know have that critical defense in their carry gun and it might hit the same spot it might recoil the same way but how you know nobody not too many people can afford to practice a lot with that ammo to see how it cycles in their gun where it hits with this I can shoot it all day long and it's still the same ammo I carry my gun so I'm used to the feel of it I know where it hits I know the recoil it's uh it's just it makes sense to do it there's no downside that I can find to reloading and the cost will scale up different calibers like look at 308 so with my 308 I use a Hornady a max bullet which is a really good target bullet um they're kind of expensive for a hundred bullets it's thirty bucks so you know you've got three bucks for your hundred bullets let's say you've got let's go with Lake City just Lake City MO it's 18 bucks in the box for the 308 ball ammo and I can basically make a match grade bullet tailor fitted to that rifle for the same price if not a little bit less where if you were going to buy if you go to buy high-end target grade ammo in 308 you're going to pay over $40.00 a box for 20 rounds so it's depending on how much you shoot it's definitely cheaper to reload and that's the that's the price breakdown I mean the math is the math like I said with the the totals I didn't figure in the brass because you're reusing it so you could argue it's a little bit more at that point it would be like two dollars and fifty cents more per 50 than what I listed off the prices but you ever use it so I didn't add it in there so it's pretty much a one in ten times investment you can reload it you know at least at least five times so I guess one in five investment but like I said this stuff here is probably at least on its tenth time around I don't throw it out until the splits some people only shoot in a number of times and get rid of it but until I see it split in half I keep reloading it and that's my you know that's that's what it costs to reload that's the bottom line with this equipment that's that's the actual cost and I'll have the price list at the end of this video with the actual item numbers of the stuff I listed off from Midway USA and that's it so you're looking at savings if you start reloading you

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Length: 12min 22sec (742 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 11 2013