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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HiredHand" data-source="post: 3818279" data-attributes="member: 2469">I got a few pounds of it from a keg that I split years ago. I think it was around $10/pound maybe a bit less. You don’t even want to know how much the primers are that I’m using cost compared to today’s prices.When you think about it a 1k primers take up around the same space as an average 50 round box of loaded ammo and weights almost nothing.A pound of powder takes up around the space of two 50 round boxes of ammo.  If you take an average pistol powder charge of 4 grains, you can load approximately 1.7k rounds. Pistol bullets might take up a bit more space than a couple of 50 round boxes. Cases were picked up from my own range sessions or stuff that others just left on the ground.  Most people won’t reload by the tens of thousands of rounds per year. They don’t need a fancy progressive press with a bunch of doodads.  So for about the cost of a thousand factory loaded 45 ACP round’s in 2005-ish, I had all the equipment that I needed to get started reloading.</blockquote>