tboesche wrote:MoJo wrote:After several years of enjoying the relative low price of factory ammo I have dusted off my reloading gear and have started rolling my own again. I shot SSP Saturday in our IDPA match the ammo I was shooting cost me $5.30 box/50(.357 brass loaded to a PF of 125000+)- - - factory ammo that will make power factor is going for $12-15 a box.
My savings on .45 and .40 are comparable if not better, 9mm isn't as good but still enough to make the effort worthwhile.
The problem with reloading is..If you do not already own the necessary equipment the intital cost outweighs the benefit unless you load thousands of rounds
You are correct but how much do you shoot? If you shoot like most cops, you might not recover your investment before retirement (Sorry Dad). But if you consume a conservative volume of 2500-3000 rounds annually, the cost of reloading equipment and components is often recovered within the first 12 months of shooting. YMMV but, I recovered my reloading investment in less than six months because I was averaging 200-250 rounds/week in 45ACP back in 1997.