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As several posters have said, serious hand loads can do better with new brass. Brass loses elasticity, every time you fire it. Serial lots of brass have same characteristics, that can and do change in between "lots".
Starline has excellent brass, at affordable prices and free shipping. Buying in quantity assures similar characteristics. Differing characteristics (case length and brass thickness as example) can cause problems during reloading.
That being said, just priced out 1000 rds of 7.62x25 using new brass, and it was over $50 cheaper to buy 1000 rounds of factory. Not an exacting comparison, because the factory rds were fmj, and the hand loads would have been lead soft points.
For several years bought Win 45 acp and 9mm fmj's, because it was cheaper than buying new components, and spending the time to load them.
Would then have lots of brass for reloading. Also can consider comparisons of more expensive calibers, like 44 mag, or 44 special.
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