Beer Math and Primers

[Castaway]

Beer Math follows:
A six pack of IPA costs $11.00. Using my primer cup maker, I get about 70 primers from a can. That’s 420 per six pack. At $7.20 per 100 percussion primers, that works out to $30.24, let’s round that to $30.00. $30 - $11 is $19. Subtract $4.00 for priming compound and I have a profit of $15.00. That’s a 136% return on my investment! I can now buy another 6 pack and pocket $4.00. My college dream come true, I’m being paid to drink beer

[Markopolo]

Oh My...

[NyFirefighter357]

It pays for itself! lol Cheers!!!!!!

[OS OK]

HAHAAA........you say. "I’m being paid to drink beer " ... good idea but, not hardly, your working for it, your making primers.

No matter how educated you think your are, you will have to work for a living in this world. It's that or a pretty meager existence.
Good math though, but again...we can make numbers say anything.

[shortlegs]

Hold my beer.........

[reloader28]

I did the same thing with my gas checks. I dont remember the exact numbers without checking but I think I have to drink a 12 pack to get 1000 gas checks:drinks:

[Maven]

Castaway, Your experience confirms Ben Franklin's quip that "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

[Woodbridge 30-30]

Just think what your profit would be if you were drinking PBR instead of IPA!

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[Rooster]

Brilliant! I'm glad I went to Public School in FL as this makes complete sense. Thank you Dr. Einstein for making math fun again. I can't wait for tomorrow's lesson. :D

[Petrol & Powder]

Makes perfect sense to me.

[dverna]

My college dream cannot be posted here...boy she was HOT!

[Teddy (punchie)]

:roll: sound good to me :drinks: more you drink the more you :guntootsmiley::happy dance: only after you dry out some.

[2A-Jay]

I don't drink Beer. I do however drink Shasta Cola A case (24 cans) lasts me a month. I do not pay a deposit on the Cans and no tax as it is considered a Food Item. A case (24 cans is $7.29 will I get to make more Primers for less, or make more Gas Checks cheaper than buying them (in this imaginary situation let say I already have the equipment and chemicals to make primers Or Gas Checks for that matter). Should I keep them to myself and reload more? Sell some so I can buy more Shasta Cola to make even more. There has to be a point where you break even or actually make a buck or 2. Nah, I will just buy Primers and Gas Checks when I need them :guntootsmiley:

[Petander]

I like that! :)

[Lloyd Smale]

kind of reminds me of my dad telling me St. Vinnys in town gives away food stores donate. They had a huge stack of 12 packs of pop some pop distributor donated. the owner of local store went down there and asked them to stop. People were taking 5 or 6 of them running over to the store and dumping the pop in the parking lot and taking the cans in for a refund and buying cigarettes with it. he told them that he had 4 people doing it on camera if they doubted him.

[bedbugbilly]

Your math looks solid to me! ;-) Let's just hope that the tree huggers and stump suckers don't ever get cans banned and make 'em go back to bottles. if they do . . . I'm guessing you're going to have to "re-do" your math equation. LOL Until then - keep on piling jp those profits!

[Brass&Lead]

Now I know who helped AOC with the math behind the Green New Thing Proclamation! :bigsmyl2: Drink more – shoot more – make money! :awesome:

[Land Owner]

Not difficult or hard to imagine. The "Sunk Cost" of your reloading equipment disappears after the first 10,000 cartridges made (pick a number).

consider (hand gun):
non-consumables
Press - $150
sizing dies - $50
cases - $50 per 100 (realistically reuse 25X) - $200
boolit mold - $75

cost of non-consumables for 10,000 rounds = less than $0.05/round

consumables for 10,000 (hand gun - EX: 45 ACP)
powder - Unique, 7.0 gr., $30/#, 1,000 rounds per pound, = $300
lead boolits - 10,000 @ 200 gr., = 286#'s, @ $1/# = $286
primers - 10,000 ea. @ $0.03 /ea., = $300

cost of consumables for 10,000 rounds = less than $0.09/round

Sum of the parts = less than $0.14 per round (and you OWN the reloading equipment)

Cost of factory ammo = $0.30 to $0.40 per round (and you own nothing)

Thus the more you shoot - the less it costs with 10,000 reloaded rounds (or a single caliber) being NOTHING compared to the lifetime volume some shoot.