Depends on a few different things.
If you are trying to load plinking ammo at todays component prices and compare to the cost of the cheapest factory plinking ammo you can find - Yes it is hard to save money.
If you already HAD all your your components stocked and bought them back in the salad days just a few years back - You can still come out ahead.
Same with comparing reloading performance rounds (Gold Dots and Hornady XTP type rounds) to buying factory rounds using those same bullets. You tend to come out ahead rolling those type rounds. ESPECIALLY if you laid in the components deep when they were cheap...
I do not personally see ammo or component prices coming down any time soon. We are experiencing high inflation rates right now and it will not get better any time soon as long as our country continues to print money like it is going out of style...
It may hurt paying the high prices for reloading components now but who seriously thinks those same goods will be cheaper in 6 months or a year, or two years? Good luck waiting on those prices to come down any reasonable amount.
Jeez, but then who would fill the primer tubes?!
I'm not an economist, but I bought all the primers I thought I would need for the next 10-20yrs when they were 2˘ each.
After 2008 and 2013, it was easy to see this coming.
I do expect prices to come down, because even if inflation adds up to 50% or 100% over several years, then primers at 10˘ still don't make sense. (3-4˘, yes, but not 10˘.)
However, as long as there's demand for primers at 10˘ each, then the price isn't going to come down...
I didn't get in early enough to get them at that low of a price but DO agree with your comments here.
Like you I am well stocked for the future and did so when things were ungodly cheap (as compared to now).
no idea what this goes for per lb currently IF you can find it -
I just know that I am ok for a few years without having to pay the crazy prices or worry about the stuff I like and use not being readily available.
Last edited by DG23; 07-04-22 at 21:51.
I still think I am making out on reloading even though I bought all my components post 2020.
9mm:
Primers: 0.08
Powder: 0.03
Bullet: 0.11
Brass/Prep: Free
Total: 0.22
556 62gr FMJ
Primers: 0.08
Powder: 0.12
Bullets: 0.12
Brass Prep: 0.05
Total: 0.37
6.5 Creed
Primers: 0.08
Powder: 0.24
Bullet: 0.39
Brass/Prep: Free
Total: 0.71
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Bruno's emailed that they have Fiochi Small Rifle for $0.11 a piece. WTF??
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I really did it because i enjoyrd the time. I have a dillion progressive and may just get a rock vhucker for so.e precision loads. I have zero experience in precison shootiing, like to take some classes.
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