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Old August 31, 2013, 12:03 AM   #26
taylorce1
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Powder isn't the only thing being consumed. Lets go extremes here since that's what we seem to be talking about. Lets compare a .250 Savage to a .257 Weaterby. It takes 40.5 grains of H4350 to propel a 100 gran bullets at 2900 fps, and it takes 63 grains of powder to propel a 100 grain bullet to 3500 fps. By your math that is a difference of 23 grains or .0805 cents per round or if we go up to 100 rounds $8.05 cents difference.

With a .250 Savage I can run regular cup and core bullets for around $20 per 100. With a .257 Roy I'd better use something like a TSX in a 100 grain bullet so I'm looking at around $65 per 100 bullets. So now I'm $45 per hundred more for bullets or $0.45 per bullet.

Now lets look at brass, .250 Savage is $32 per 50 rounds or $0.64 cents a cartridge. .257 Weatherby brass is $53 per 50 rounds or $1.06 per cartridge. So now we can figure on average eight reloads per .250 case and five reloads per .257 Wby Mag case.


Whip out the handy dandy reloading calculator and you're looking at roughly $9.40 per 20 rounds of the .250 Savage. The Weatherby will cost you $22.64 per 20 rounds. More than twice the cost of a .250 Savage to reload. Multiply that all by 8 or 5 and what do you get? A little over $85 per 100 40 rounds for the Savage vs. $113 for 100 rounds of the Weatherby. So you have a net savings of $28 and get to shoot 40 more times vs. what you get out of the Weatherby.
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