So, factory ammo costs about 40 cents/round.
You include the cost of reloading equipment, but so what, are you going to resell it after you load 100 rounds? If so, you have to deduct the money you'll get back.
It does stand to reason that if you only plan to shoot about 100 rounds, even per year, and not reload any other cartridges, the fixed costs are rather high and it would take a long time to pay for itself.
For most of us, you don't buy in quantities of 100. You buy in quantities of 1000 or more.
I buy bullets in quantities of 3000 or more.
Primers are usually purchased in sleeves of 5000.
Brass - ~$23.00/100 Starline (Midway, new):
If you don't lose them, you'll probably get 10 loads out of them (with trimming as required), so the cost of a 23 cent case would be 2.3 cents/round fired.
Powder - ~$21.00/lb (Alliant Red Dot, Midway).
What's your load? Probably about 3gn of powder. So, let's just say 4 gn of Red Dot. 1 lb of Red Dot is 7000 gn, so, at 4 gn/load, there are 1750 loads in that pound. If the powder cost $21, then each round costs 1.2 cents for powder
Primers - ~$4.00/100 (CCI Small Pistol, Johnsons).
Seems pretty expensive, but OK 4 cents/round
Bullets - ~$21.00/100 (Sierra 8005, Midway).
Wow, you can't find cheaper any where? I hope your factory ammo uses at least the same quality premium bullet. 21 cents/round for bullets.
So, expendable/consumable cost is 2.3 + 1.2 + 4 + 21 = 28-29 cents/round, compared to about 40 cents/round for factory--and that is without even trying to find less expensive options (like using the brass cases from factory ammo you already purchased).
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