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Thanks again, loads of insight here.
Heres my noob math on reloading 380:
- Using Midway's cheapest 380acp brass is $18 per 100 (ok, yea its reusable, but..)
- Using Midway's cheapest 380apc 95gr bullets is $18 per 100
- Neither the brass nor the bullets are in stock.
- Powder and primers not accounted for yet.
- Equipment not bought yet. Not going to be a wife-friendly expenditure.
- After shooting brass will still need to be rounded up every trip - very unfun.
- Huge amounts of time for reading/studying/buying.
- I gave $17 per 50 round ready-to-fire box at Cabela's on Saturday. They also had steel case for $14.
So I just dont get it - outside of it being its own sub-hobby where you go for ballistics and/or oustanding accuracy - what is the point?
I do realize that the brass will be reused, and that the more I shoot and load the cheaper it becomes, but I still cant justify it.
It kinda sux though, they got us by the beans... with all of the work and up-front expense involved, reloading really should be much cheaper compared to factory loads.
Lastly, that low smoke, good feeding, good shooting $17 box of 380 came from overseas (Hungary I think).
Seems to me that Remington, Winchester and the rest better quit fooling around and screwing with us on price and availability.
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