This! The only people saying theres no savings in loading 9mm are buying components at full blown msrp, in small quantities, and paying for brass that can be picked up for free. I load 124gr plated for around 9 cents per round. Price breakdown: .06$ bullet .02$ primer Less than .01$ powder Brass (if buying) .025$ That's 11.5 cents each including brass! Now show me a store where a 50ct box of 9mm ammo is less than 6 bucks The cheapest I ever see it is 20 cents per round or $10 a box. I say load em up bassJAM
I saw some black friday brass case ammo for $6 /50. Last year I bought some ammo for about that, even .357. It basically was the cost to load it. I focused on defense ammo with my limited purchase amount but my step dad bought his am out in .357 for the brass.
They had Remington on sale plus a mail in rebate for 6- I want to say for 5 bux. Like stated alot of the common Cal in plinking rounds is cheaper and easier to just to buy. I too focused on "storable" or defensive ammo purchases lol.
You have to seriously shop to find prices shipped for that cost. Especially with hazmat.(maxing most weights at 40-50lbs powder/primers that's lotsa powder for 9mm) You can always find deals though at shows or black Friday had 10$ haz free ship.... I would say to add 3-5 cents at least for a good shopper.
Bullets: extreme black Friday pricing Primers: Cabela's sale price (local, no hazmat) Powder: buy 8lb kegs locally and utilize a powder that can be used in other calibers (231,unique, etc) also no hazmat Brass: the uspsa shooters round here sell it stoopid cheap So yea, when there's a deal, buy lots of it. Example: Wideners had sierra projectiles on blowout one night. Late nite email blast kinda thing. They only lasted a few hours. I got almost $1500 worth of bullets for less than $700. Those are the kind of deals when you buy 5 years worth at a time or more. So yea....I'm a good azz shopper. I only buy when it's ultra cheap and I keep $ kicked back for just such occasions. The good deals don't usually last long so u have to buy quickly.
I got ahold of some cabinets that were dumpster bound. Decided to add on to the reloading room. Got 105" inches of bench space on the white cabinets once it's done, and 65 inches on the black bench. The white bench will both get carpeted with speaker box carpet, basically becoming a cleaning bench and brass prep area. I also got some upper cabinets for above the black bench. It's all screwed together and lagged to the wall. Read: more solid than a stripper pole. Wood cost: $30 Gas: $10 Screws: $4 Room for the 100lb dog on the reloading bench, priceless.
Just realized I never updated this with a finished photo. Bench space is like saws....can't ever have enough.
Agreed, looks very good. nicely organized. the picture of 9 puppies really sets it off. my reloading setup looks like some ordinance accidentally went off in there at some point.
bocefus78, Nice looking reloading bench!!! I have a much smaller area and have to be more compact. I envy your space. Chief
Not my video, just a reference as to what I was looking into. I do have a Dillon though! Mix it with moonshine instead of heet!
This thread got me thinking trick for refilling aerosol cans Then I saw this Refilling aresols got me thinking, I tried the lanolin and alcohol mix, it works great for case lube and is super cheap. Home made one-shot? So I grabbed an empty can and aresoled the lanolin lube mix. Used about 60 psi. Only problem is the spay nozzle/tip/head shoots a jet! I need one or to use a can with a soft wide pattern like the one shot or a paint nozzle. Not the jet stream PB blaster nozzle!
$20 primers if anyone is in need. I've used many thousands of these with zero issues in factory unmodified guns. They are known to be semi hard so try a few of em if your gun is light sprung before you go buying 10k. Sellier & Bellot Primers – Brick : Cabela's
I too have stocked up when they put those on sale for $20. I think I have actually got to some of them to load as well and not had any issues. I have only bought Sm and LP ones. They changed the boxes to make it easier to tell what kind they are. They use to only have any differentiating marks on them on like 2 sides. There was a part number in some part foreign writing and then there was a SP or LP there so you know which is which.
I prairie dog hunt with a cheap Savage Axis 223. It shoots great. I recently switched from H335 to CFE223 powder behind a 50 grain V Max. Three shot groups. 100 yards. From a warm barrel that hasn't been cleaned in 200 rounds.
