I must chime-in with my 2bits on this one..
Myself, I live up in Alberta-Canada, and among my brother, ol'man and me, we've got three Firebirds.. we were among the very first to order such rifles into Alberta - way-back-when. We went with the Lazzeroni chambering (obviously) because of the ballistics and capacity the big-casings of the Firebirds and such provide. There was no such thing as an Ultra Mag of any sort at that time.. they came along later.
Over the years, we've loaded everything from 140gr Barnes XLC's & triple shocks, to Nosler Ballistic tips & Partitions, to Berger's VLD's of sort and Johns very own Lazerhead bullets... and it-is very true, the guns are not cheap to shoot - they're $6/shot handloaded, (HOWEVER) being we ARE NOT shooting 5 or 10 different rifles (which obviously are an even bigger cost than shooting ONE Lazzeroni) ..it suddenly isn't all-that expensive... now is it boys?
Before anyone starts beakin' about cost and such, be it brass or initial investment or whatever.. ask yourself how many rifles are sitting in your cabinet at home.. how many are you using.. what did ALL of those combined cost you?? Do you really need "that" many???
In our case, these rifles were to be our "main" go-to rifles for everything from Pronghorn, to elk, to whitetail, bears, be-it moose, or whatever else... you name it, they've never missed a beat - flawless A to Z. And yah, each of these rifles may hold $4-$6000 worth of investment (per guy, depending on their optics) but ya know what... they're our #1 guns, we don't have 5 or 10 or 15 rifles sitting around, we have ONE because they are that-versatile, and we know them inside-out.
There's that old saying that comes to mind... "fear not the man with a house FULL of guns, but the man with just ONE... he likely knows it very-well"