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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cat City Slim" data-source="post: 4314761" data-attributes="member: 42075">I agree with your argument, to a point. Buying new brass that won’t be reloaded and fun bullets, one can’t beat the price of loaded ammo. Primers and powder are historically high. However, I’ve never known a serious reloader that wasn’t a tinkerer and a packrat, so this isn’t really a correct assessment. As mentioned before, 9mm brass can be picked up for free, or purchased as once fired for significantly less money. Even buying new brass, one needs to account for the fact that it can be reloaded multiple times. Played bullets are much more economical for use as plinking ammo. If one really wants to go down the rabbit hole, cast lead bullets are even cheaper, or nearly free if one wants to cast their own. My Unique recipe is, I think, 5 grains per round. At 7000 grains per pound, that’s 1400 rounds per pound. At, say, 50 a pound for powder, that’s around 4 cents a round for powder. I’m still shooting primers I bought in the early 00’s for less than 2 cents each. I may well stop loading 9mm if I have to pay 100 a brick for them.So, my price estimate is as follows:Brass - 0.02Powder - 0.04 (actually less, packrat, remember?)Primer - 0.02Bullet- 0.02 (again, probably less for home cast)Total - 0.10 per round. I think my actual cost is closer 0.06 per round, but I’m being conservative.</blockquote>