Time is a factor, if my boys didn't love being in the reloading room and learning how to reload, I would just buy ammo, unless of course I was going straight to a Dillon 750 or up or a mark7, not saying I don't enjoy reloading, it's just I really value being with my kids and my wife.
Cost of Reloading - Pre-Covid Vs Post Covid
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john k
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It's systemic racism. Yea, that's it, it's racist! Capitalism is inherently racist according to our current administration. That's the answer because it's the answer to everything else. 
iflyskyhigh
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I have a spreadsheet I made about 10-12 years ago and updated right be the pandemic ironically enough.
You can put your own info there. But I can't figure out how to upload it here. It only allows me to upload photos.
If anyone knows how or wants it let me know.
You can put your own info there. But I can't figure out how to upload it here. It only allows me to upload photos.
If anyone knows how or wants it let me know.
Calvin45
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Every time the political left gets any power the threat of further gun restriction rears its head and people freak out accordingly. I'm not at all saying the left is good for the firearms industry, if it ever actually gets its way it's very bad…but I will say that the manufacturers almost certainly are making a heck of a lot more money when liberals are behind the wheel due to panic buying and supply-demand driven price inflation.
this to say I think recent election results in your country (I'm in Canada, been a liberal gong show for a while up here already
) have way more to do with prices than Covid does.
this to say I think recent election results in your country (I'm in Canada, been a liberal gong show for a while up here already
) have way more to do with prices than Covid does.My cost is only slightly changed. Bought 2000 CCI 250's off GB for $250 back in January. Otherwise I'm working off the same 50lbs of powder and 5 - 6k primers I had precovid. Back when stocking up on components wasn't considered hoarding...
I honestly haven't calculated the cost. Mostly because I had 90% of my components in surplus before the world quit working by order of the political elites.
As for the fellas who make a living selling stuff, if the stuff that is for sale becomes so scarce that they have little to sell, the price goes up. Blame socialism for the mandated scarcity.
I believe I had about $1.50/ round pre COVID. Bout the same now but that price inevitably will go up.
I'm more concerned about the 40% increase in the price of everything else, like food and energy.
This country has been hunting down and defeating communist for a hundred years. Now the kids and entertainers are electing them. Our grand parents would be ashamed of us... rant withheld
As for the fellas who make a living selling stuff, if the stuff that is for sale becomes so scarce that they have little to sell, the price goes up. Blame socialism for the mandated scarcity.
I believe I had about $1.50/ round pre COVID. Bout the same now but that price inevitably will go up.
I'm more concerned about the 40% increase in the price of everything else, like food and energy.
This country has been hunting down and defeating communist for a hundred years. Now the kids and entertainers are electing them. Our grand parents would be ashamed of us... rant withheld
None taken and thanks for the correction, I wasn't that great in class anyway. I'm still haven't recoverd from all that head trauma fighting, beer drinking, chasing girls, and getting paid to jump from perfectly good aircraft caused in my teens and early 20's! Some things just seemed more important at the time than finishing college or paying attention in HS.
Been havN a good shooting bolt rifle all year, getN ready for another Elk, deer, coyote season. Sierra's makN bullets, Federal's making primers, Hodgdon's got powder, and still got some Norma brass from 10 years ago. On the reloading labels, that list the various weights and components, after shooting a batch, like to put a rating on there of how tight they group. Ends up, the loads that get the A+ rating, go huntN, the walmarts factory stuff stay home for offhand practice on White Oak cordwood at 75 yards. Think that wamarts stuff was like $16 bucks a box, a while back, Federal 165gr 300 WM worthless groups @ 100yd off the bench.No matter the slightly elevated cost, coffee and reloading, , still pretty reasonable these days!!
Winefly
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Zinc, copper & lead are all up 5- 10 x in the last 20 years. Manufacturing during COVID-19 has been sporadic but the supply chain stops when the factory has no worker.
Powder down here is either in or out of stock but prices are stable.
I think reloading is possibly cheaper than 25 years ago
when I compare to beer prices I don't give up either & they both cost more
Powder down here is either in or out of stock but prices are stable.
I think reloading is possibly cheaper than 25 years ago
when I compare to beer prices I don't give up either & they both cost more
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Let's look at powder. The powders I use all say 1pound net weight. So. The can and it's contents weigh 1 pound. There isn't 7000 grains of powder in it. The can used for IMR AND Hodgdon isn't terribly huge but the can used by Alliant is. Someone with an electronic scale should weigh empty powder containers in grains and deduct that from the one pound net weights to see just how much powder there is in them
7,000 grains in 1 pound, that's what in there
My cost have went down, it's rained so much in Houston the last year it's too muddy to go to the range
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Sage70
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I am a member of a shooting club and I have always gone to the range at dawn, in the off season or when the weather is cold so I have the range to myself. I think our club has about over a thousand members and currently very few people are going to the range. I can go about 3 pm and range is empty, even the skeet shooters are missing. I think it is do to the shortage of ammo and the shortage and cost of reloading components. I have sold bullets and shooting gear on the internet to git rid of things that I don't need. I have used this money to buy bullets, powder and primers and in the past 6 months I have purchased more components than I normally buy because I want to insure that I have what I need. The cost of everything is high but that appears to be the new norm.
