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9mm reloading cost?
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Thinking about getting into reloading, how much on average do you guys spend to reload 9mm?
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All my reloading components are pre-COVID. Using 115gr RMR rn-plated: $5/50.
9mm was the last handgun caliber I reloaded. In normal times it’s hard to start with 9mm because the savings from reloading it are meager. Reloading for expensive calibers (.45 acp, .44 mag 10mm etc) can pay for a nice press and accessories in a few months. If you shoot regularly and buy components in bulk.
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$0.15/rd for me. I got primers $60/1000, brass for a small fee, Bayou 147gr polymer coated bullets, and cfe pistol powder 3.5gr. You can load with less powder but I needed it to cycle a slew of different firearms.
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That’s a good question. Now is a horrible time to find primers and reloading accessories. If you’re lucky enough to find primers, they have been way over priced from what has been shown on this sub.
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You’re going to get answers all over the board. Right now, prices are absurd. I’m still loading from primers I stocked up on when they were dirt cheap, so about 3 cents per primer, about one cent for the powder, and then I cast my own bullets since my neighbor can get me all the scrap lead I want for 75 cents a pound, and a pound makes about 50 bullets. After powdercoating, assume 2 cents per bullet. Add those together and I can load 9mm for about 6 cents a round. I can normally recover about half of the lead from downrange, so that cuts the cost even further if I bother doing that.
Now, let’s assume you aren’t going to be getting into casting, and you don’t have components already and will pay a higher price. You’re probably looking at 5-8 cents per primer if you catch a fair deal in today’s market, one or two cents for the powder, and then around 10 cents per bullet, so somewhere around 20 cents per round.
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124 gn coated bullets, free/”paid off” brass, using today’s primer cost, and 5gn of cfe pistol= 12¢ per
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$7.50 per hundred.
A fast shot shell powder for propellent. Bought from a Trap& Skeet club bulletin board. Those guys tend to purchase big caddies and load a whole season of shooting and then get rid of leftovers.
Because I cast my own bullets, all the bullets I care to shoot, cost $1.00 – $5.00 per hundred. -
Not counting time and amortization of equipment….
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PreCovid pricing: $6.05/50. Then down to $4.50 reusing brass on loading #2 forward. I still haven’t dug into my post Covid stock yet.
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0.25 CND/rnd.
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Never reloaded pre covid, now about 15-17 cpr
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I did some math the other day, and with current prices I need to load 4k rounds to start “saving” money on reloading. I have no equipment or supplies.
So yeah, worst time ever to get into reloading, haha
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When I started, I figured that I needed to make 227k 9mm to break even.
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9¢ primers would push me up to 17¢ then…bought primers a couple weeks ago at $40/1k…old stock was $23/1k before Covid got nuts
