Originally Posted by
dverna
Very few people have any business experience…most have no business sense.
If you believe your alloy is free, you are in that group of business ignorance. 25 lbs of alloy has a value…it is not “free”. Likely worth about $30.
Do you believe the primers you bought for $20/k are only worth $20? Same for powder…I had $10/lb powder I sold for a wee bit more than $10. Even your free range pickup cases have some value….$25/k?
All that to demonstrate if you think your reloads are $100/k, you are delusional.
I use $75/k for primers, $1.50/lb for alloy and $45/lb for powder to determine the cost of reloads. I value my time at $15/hr. I do not cast or reload for fun. I have better ways to have fun. I manufacture pistol ammunition primarily for cast savings
And speaking of time, I use decent equipment. Dillon 1050 for loading pistol ammunition, Master Caster to cast, and Star lubersizer. It takes me 5 hours to produce 1000 rounds if I cast my own bullets.
When I was shooting 20k rounds a year, I bought pistol bullets. Back then I was paying $50/k for 9mm and .38 bullets by buying in lots of 20-50k. The cost of alloy was $20/k. Spending over 3 hours to save $30 on 1000 bullets did not make sense in the circumstances I was in.