ips does reloading

[14manjoe]

I have a mec 9000h which is the hydraulic model. I can start with 200 primers in the tray and both the shot and powder tubes full and load a shell every 4 seconds. Not a lot of savings really right now. I pay $145US for 8lbs of powder, $25 for 1000 primers, and I believe $35 for 25lbs of shot. wads are $12 for 500 last i checked was with cheaper powder and it cost me around $4.30 for 25 cartridges. I can purchase Fiocchi shooting dynamic ammo for $5.60 

 

[Wonko the Sane]

For me the financial aspect that was of consequence was that the difference in cost was not mitigated since the cost of MY TIME was not a component.  I have some things to do that are actually fun and running the reloader was not in that group.  Going absolutely balls out I make the "wage" at +/-$8hr which in most places in the US is something like 1/2 the mandated minimum wage.  Well below poverty level.  See where I'm going with this?   oke:

so if I go out and shoot 100 targets my added cost for using new carts is $2. 

y'all have a nice day

 

[westley]

Just after the Eley 'explosion' many years ago, it became quite difficult to obtain cartridges. Eley themselves were sending the components to France to have cartridges loaded for them. Those cartridges were lethal, I know of 1 Guy that lost most of his left hand when his Charles Lancaster blew up. However the components were readily available from most gun shops and at a very reasonable price, albeit mainly distributed by Eley.  Once they cottoned on to the increased sales of loading materials, Eley did what they do best, they hiked up the prices of the components. Around the same time we began to see more imported cartridges on sale, Gyttorp, Rottweil, Sellior and Bellot and of course Baikal. These were sold at such an affordable price that reloading, other than for large (or small) bores, became uneconomical. Using a Redding machine, I would de-cap and re-cap 100 cases at a time, then just load up that 100, all with the same load. Any that 'failed' were tossed into a bucket to be 'unpicked' later.