What would your cost be to reload if someone already had the brass? I have collected brass while shooting, but have no intention of reloading it.
What would your cost be to reload if someone already had the brass? I have collected brass while shooting, but have no intention of reloading it.
Considering Winchester 100rd bulk pack 9mm that i picked up at Walmart for $25 OTD yesterday and Win 100rd .40 bulk packs for $36 OTD this morning, it's gonna be hard to compete.
Also last week was 325rd Fed .22lr bulk packs for $15-16 Otd and Fed 5.56 for about $8 per 20rd OTD.
Hard to compete with Walmart.
Then again, most of the guys I've been talking to at the range don't even realize ammo is hard to get.
Right, no one can compete with Walmart and few can get ammo there because you buy it all up.
What would your cost be to reload if someone already had the brass? I have collected brass while shooting, but have no intention of reloading it.
Hmm. been reloading a while myself now.. about 15 years... Precision delta bullets... 9mm 115 grn fmj rn... 93.00 per thousand or 89.00 per thousand with an order of 10,000 rnds. so that's 8.9 cents per round Plus powder... buy good powder in 8lb can's.. you'll spend roughly 15.00 dollars per pound. Depending on charge your going to use roughly 3/4's of a lb... so let's say 1.2 cents per round for powder. Primers at 35.00 per thousand... 3.5 cents per round... good once fired military brass... 40 dollars per thousand.. so .4 cents per round... so that would be 17.6 cents per round.. if you put 1000 rnds of 9mm in an ammo can to sell to customers.. your looking at roughly another 12 dollars for the can.. that's another 1.2 cents per round... making a total of 18.8 cents per round.. or roughly 19 cents per round. So his costs seem about right..
Buddy of mine is a licensced manufacturer of ammo... The average price on military brass (if your the one bidding at the military bases) is roughly 3.8 cents per round from the results of bids from the last 90 days.. IF your the one doing the bidding.. if your purchasing from the ones doing the bidding you'll pay nearly double that(right now)...He buys 1.2 million primers at a time(straight from winchester)... and still pays.. nearly 2 cents per round for primers... and his powder comes in 70lb drums.. he still spends nearly 1 cents per round for powder.. He order's 1 million bullets at a time as well and his plated bullets are still costing him 6.3 cents per round once he receives them.. So I guess if you could go out today and invest 150,000.00 dollars to buy enough brass/ bullets/ primer and powder in bulk .. you could probably get the price down to about 12 cents per round..
by the way what is the fair use rate for $3000 worth of machine and conversions that has to be paid for?
Right, no one can compete with Walmart and few can get ammo there because you buy it all up.
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