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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NikatKimber" data-source="post: 2887288" data-attributes="member: 423">If you shoot brass, you can beat it by quite a bit reloading. Like mentioned above, if you shoot cheap steel cased ammo, it's much tighter. I just did a quick comp, and you can beat steel cased 9mm and .223 by about $25 or so per thousand rounds.No way in the world I would load 1000 rounds of 9mm or .223 on a hand press for $25. However, you start looking at more specialty rounds, the equation changes. If you want to shoot 147gr 9mm, I can beat that by $50-$60 per thousand. I'd spend a weeknight on my progressive to save $50. But I can knock out a k in about 3 hours or so if I already have the brass ready. But if the brass isn't prepped, you can add 50% more time (double for rifle brass, especially mil 5.56) to prep a thousand rounds. So if you include the time, if you value the time more than about $10-12/hr, you're losing money. For me, that time would likely be spent watching TV or browsing OSA anyways, so not like I'm going to be making money during that time.</blockquote>