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Yeah, right. After you buy $400-500 worth of equipment and supplies, it'll be sooooo much cheaper. The .270 is one of the most economical American calibers to shoot. If I want better ammo, I buy Hornady Custom or Federal Premium. Better price your components before jumping in head first.
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$400-$500 ?
Pure-D Bullsqueeze.
Press Kit: $143.00
http://leeprecision.com/xcart/50th-A...enger-Kit.html
Case length guage: $5.50
http://leeprecision.com/xcart/GAUGE-HOLDER-270-WSM.html
Dies: $43.98 and $14.98
http://leeprecision.com/xcart/DELUX-...I-270-WIN.html
http://leeprecision.com/xcart/FACTOR...P-DIE-270.html
$207.46...... leaves nearly $200 bucks for shipping and a bench (assuming you don't already have a workbench).......
My handloads cost me $.68 (at current Cabela's component regular prices*) each:
150gr Sierra Gamekings, $31.99/100= 32 cents ea
Winchester .270 WIN brass, $43.99/100= @ 9 cents a shot assuming 5 uses**
CCI 250 Magnum Rifle Primers, $36.99/1000= @4 cents ea
IMR7828, 1 lb. for $26.99 ...... 58gr/round= 23 cents/shot
To get that bullet in Federal Premium (the only factory loaded ammo I am aware of that uses it), it's $1.85 a pop .... I pay for the above reloading equipment in les than 10 boxes of shells...... and their load is not even tuned to my rifle.
Your Hornady "Custom" at Cabela's is only available in 130gr bullet weight for .270, and is $1 a pop....... I still save 30+ cents a shot..... it will take longer to recoup my equipment costs, but i still make better ammo
for my rifle than Hornady can.
I can load cheaper stuff, and I'm sure you can buy cheaper stuff..... but this is what I do, and what it would cost me to do it.
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Better price your components before jumping in head first.
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This is irrelavant: You are going to buy brass, bullets, primers and powder one way or another, either assembled by sombody else, or as components. Who cares more than you do?
*Some of the items were on sale when I checked, but I used the regular price, as they likely would not be on sale when you buy them. Also, Cabela's is by far not the cheapest place to buy stuff- Natchez, Mid-way, etc. are usually cheaper.... and none of the components except primers were bought in bulk, so you can save even more that way. I did not include shipping, because I walk into the store and buy this stuff.
**you can get more, but my load is hot.... I use it 5 times and then put it in the grass rat/paper-puncher box