Reeder Custom Guns - Bullets, primer, powder

It’s shocking, the price increases. Not counting the brass case, it costs me about $16 materials to load up a box of (20) .308 or .30-06. About half of store shelf ammo. But say .416 Rigby, it’s about $35/20, a savings on the order of $100 in some cases. Ditto odd stuff like .32-20, .30-40 Krag, .38-40. It’s the same cost as loading .38 Specials or .308. But retail is crazy on those if you can even find them. I just paid $0.45 each for some empty brass. Never leave it behind! I can get .50 BMG for about $1 each, but .500 Nitro can be $10 per empty.

It’s just getting tough paying $60 for a pound of powder and 30-50 cents per jacketed bullet. Casting your own rules. IF you have the time. That’s getting to be a factor too these days. Paying yourself pretty much negates savings in cost. Thank goodness it’s a labor of love and enjoyment.

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Cost more dollars for lead these days if you are casting.

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I try to shoot into sand drums so I can recycle as well! Thankfully I bought some surplus powder when it was cheap too.

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cheap way to ship it. I have been using a large blue 55 gallon drum filled with sand to test fire in. We shoot it with a target taped to the side of the drum. The drum is a hard plastic drum so no danger of bullets glancing off. The drum is extremely heavy with the sand in it and after a month or so the drum is filled mostly with expanded bullets and 4 men can barely slide it. We then shovel out the sand into another drum or into several 5 gallon buckets. We put a piece of wire mesh over the 5 gallow buckets as we are shoveling it out. This way all that is in the 5 gallow buckets is bullets. Half of a 5 gallow bucket is over 100 lbs and I have maybe a dozen buckets that we have collected the spent bullets in.
I have a 90 lb melting pot that I get a wild hair from time to time and want to melt some of the spent bullets.I pour the lead into a bunch of ingot molds. I skim all the brass and dirt off before I pour the lead into the molds. It takes most of an afternoon and at the end of the day I have maybe 50 lbs of clean lead.
Once I get a further along I will post the lead on here at a good price.

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But they keep shooting their prices up. I’d have to look at the latest and figure it up. I don’t think they have a weight limit on the small box.

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Seems magazines are also getting more expensive.

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The pistol mags are still about $15 in the store, AR too. You can never have too many. Our AK mags are pretty cheap, I think you could bludgeon someone to death with one!

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Seem to continue to rise in price, even with many models discontinued. Magpul are good clones, I should look at those for my Flocks mags too. Good point.

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All with Magpul mags. I like them. Ruger even collaborated Magpul who makes the bottom half of “their” Glockish clone. Same mag I think. The Shadow systems gun came with Magpul mags.

Bullets, primer, powder

The dollar is getting worth less every day.

I’m fortunate to have well over 1000 lbs.

Yes , thank fully I got ww lead, lino and monotype years ago

I have about 4000 lbs in lead that I am trying to find a

Used to be the USPS flat rate boxes were cheapest

Have you noticed the price of magazines creepin gup?

What flavor? I use Magpul for AR and G guns

Glock factory mags

I run a AR9, Shadow Systems MR920, and G19

Ima haveta look closely at Magpul now

Biggest difference I see is the metal insert factory

I’ve been buying SPP for $165 for 5000.

SPP?

Small Pistol Primers

Our main problem on the powder is that most of it