Fair price for reloading?

If they must pay you, have them make payment in kind. A couple of pounds of powder here, 500 primers there a headspace gauge for their calibers etc etc.
They ain't paying you they're gifting you for your time gift to them.
Write a disclaimer for them to sign.
Personally speaking, I wouldn't go there, as friendly as I am the thought of seeing one of my mates minus an eye or even minus a pulse doesn't bear thinking about.
 
If they were to sell that ammo to someone else,
I used to shoot a ton of 45acp, to say I was stocked on components would be an understatement.
I supplied a guy with ammo for awhile, not huge amounts, but Free. Being it was not bulk in one setting, I put it in ammo boxes, get the empties back when a fresh supply was delivered.
At the range one day, guy unknown to me is setting up to show off his pistolero skills, his ammo boxes catch my eye. As friendly as I could be, I asked where he got his ammo.

I have always been aware of legal ramifications but was not prepared for someone else to be making money off my time, and components. When box blasting ammo was going for 10 per box, he was charging 15.
Today, I will sell components for what I paid, and teach-help others to load on my equipment, nothing more, nothing less.
 
One thing that you have to consider is the liability involved in reloading cartridges for someone else. Friends or not friends. If there is a malfunction on the rifle/pistol and damage to the firearm who is going to get the blame? God forbid any injury to a person. When it comes to money and injury the friendship usually goes away. Whether you get paid for it or not. Also if you are taking money you are considered a professional.
This subject was brought up discussed several times on LRH.
I have been reloading for many years and won't give out any of my reloads also won't accept any reloads from other reloaders. I have helped friends start reloading, but they do the actual reloads with their components and equipment.
Coyote Shadow Tracker is spot on. Once you produce ammo in exchange for money you are considered an ammo manufacturer. Think of all the regulations, laws, permits, licenses, certificates, insurance, documents and on and on that apply to you. The liabilities are enormous and that's why I don't reload for anyone but myself. I could see now. I sell some reloads and my house burns to the ground and State Farm tells me my homeowner policy doesn't cover it cause I manufactured ammunition oh and ps State Farm has notified the local, state and federal authorities in an attempt to shut me down so as to protect their policy holders to the left, right and across the street. Sound silly well call your insurance agent and county, state and federal office and tell them you want to produce ammo for a price and see their response.
 
I have been reloading for a couple buddies that recently had custom rifles built. They are paying for all of the components themselves and I basically just have my time in it. I also will take the rifles out and shoot them when doing load development. I'm not trying to make a bunch of money off them but they have insisted on paying and I would like to know if anyone has done something similar and what you charged/how you came up with your price. Appreciate any insight.
Old adage: No good deed goes unpunished. Everyone has their Aw **** moments, even the big ammo companies....think recalls. Regardless what you think, you are not immune from them. There is liability involved in doing something for another individual. Even if the moment is totally their responsibility.....everyone today wants to be indemnified from their own stupidity...... if another individual has their fingerprints in the equation, there is liability, especially where injury or high dollar damage is involved. Dollars are more powerful than almost any friendship, ruin many friendships. You need to consider this. Consult with a lawyer. Yeah, not cheap. (The only identified benefit of a lawyer D-in-L.) Consider a hold harmless agreement, although a good ambulance chaser can penetrate that veil and/or make it so expensive to enforce that one at some point will settle for some amount........plus sunk costs of defending your position and Mr. Stupid Former Friend's legal costs. Blood/suffering/stupidity always win in our litigious society. Lawyers are always the ones who win.

Next, most will ignore thinking they can sweep under the rug, consider the issue of being in the ammo manufacturing business from a government/ATF/zoning/fire regulations/insurance/tax implications.......licensing, inspections, record keeping, tax implications. Even if you are only recouping actual or portion of costs, government can spin a for-profit intention, thus in the business. Not reporting is tax evasion. If you are a pro-gun entity, you will get no mercy with government involved. Again, think cost to defend even if one wins. The liability, effort, costs cannot really be covered in a small operation. You are going to be doing it at a lost with all the overhead implications. What are you heart beats worth. Those are your real non-replenishable resource. Maybe you are young enough to be oblivious to that last statement. But, the years fly by incrementally approaching the speed of light, and one day you will understand. One's last heartbeat is worth more than all the rest. Just a really, really old very siccessful geezer's life experience and observations. YMMV, but I doubt it. Been there, done that, observed that over and over en route to being this old. As Nicholson once commented...."You can't handle the truth." :) :) :) Those smiley faces make reality more palatable.
 
You are %100 right.
One thing that you have to consider is the liability involved in reloading cartridges for someone else. Friends or not friends. If there is a malfunction on the rifle/pistol and damage to the firearm who is going to get the blame? God forbid any injury to a person. When it comes to money and injury the friendship usually goes away. Whether you get paid for it or not. Also if you are taking money you are considered a professional.
This subject was brought up discussed several times on LRH.
I have been reloading for many years and won't give out any of my reloads also won't accept any reloads from other reloaders. I have helped friends start reloading, but they do the actual reloads with their components and equipment.
 
Yeah same crap garbage all over the guide world. 99 percent is not true BS. I can take my buddies out and share costs and not report it as income. Or as a non guide take people out and help them catch fish and they give me money for gas bait etc.
It's always a long hump to get downwind of reality, but even that effort doesn't make reality go away. Tax courts are full of smart guys.
 
Mostly my friends come over to load their short line ammo on the 650s, a K or more at a time. Their components, their labor, my machines.

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From @Coyote Shadow Tracker "One thing that you have to consider is the liability involved in reloading cartridges for someone else. Friends or not friends."

Exactly the reason some of my deer hunting and shooting friends don't even know I have a reloading bench.
 

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