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How much are you currently paying per cartridge? You can get lead bullets for about 4¢ each, primers for about 2.5¢ each, and the powder costs less than 1¢ if you use Promo for target ammo or Bullseye for normal-power. About 8¢ total, or $4 per box of 50. (I'm assuming the brass is free.) That's cutting the costs down to the minimum without casting your own bullets.

I doubt that you can save enough loading 9mm to be worthwhile if the cost savings is your only motivation, but you should be able to save *something*. Load just about any other cartridge and the savings add up a lot faster. For example .45 Colt doesn't cost much more than 9mm to load (once you have the brass) but they cost almost $1 per pop to buy, and that's the cheap stuff.

RJR, Loading just one or two pistol calibers at high volume, wouldn't a Dillon SDB make more sense? That's what most of the guys (and gal) in my bullseye league use.