.410 reloading costs

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.410 ammo costs were never reflective of the components in them, but prices have really gone beyond ridiculous. I've had enough of that and want to shoot more, so I just finished mounting my new MEC .410 reloader to the bench. I've got all the components, so planning to tune everything today and turn out a handful of reloads to test.

I did up a spreadsheet, and according to my calculations shows a cost of $9.50/box (incl. taxes) if I account for the brass as a consumable at .05c/per loading. That cost is way up due to the cost of powders and primers, but backing out the taxes I'm at just over $8/box + tax which I figure is about half price of what 2.5" loads will be when (if) they start showing of reliably on the shelves. And now I can tune and load whatever shot I want, or bump the press up to load 3" and really save over the cost of factory ammo.

I think the days of $5/box reloads and $12/box factory ammo are long behind us, even for the tiny little miracle .410 :(
 
25+ years ago when I picked up a MEC 650jr I picked up enough supplies for 5000 loads, hulls, wads, primers, powder, and lead shot. I'm at 13 cents each for the remainder of my life. Winchester red 3" hulls last between 10-15 loads on average before they blow out or expand too much for pressure seal on the wad. I used to mark them, now I can't be bothered.
 
Interestingly enough… $.13/round x 5000 means you invested roughly $650 in reloading components 25 years ago. If you had invested $650 cash for 25 years, at a compounding 6% annual rate of return (which is below the stock market average by a bit)… you’d have $2,140 today.

$2,140 / 5k rounds of ammo = $.42/round. I find this fascinating. Maybe we can’t win… it’s just inflation? lol
 
The Baron said:
Interestingly enough… $.13/round x 5000 means you invested roughly $650 in reloading components 25 years ago. If you had invested $650 cash for 25 years, at a compounding 6% annual rate of return (which is below the stock market average by a bit)… you’d have $2,140 today.

$2,140 / 5k rounds of ammo = $.42/round. I find this fascinating. Maybe we can’t win… it’s just inflation? lol
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The lead shot and powder came from an auction. I bought primers and wads. The majority of my hulls came from loaded new boxes of shells from the same auction.. Although I did acquire a few bags of new Winchster hulls
 
Up until last winter, I was loading 410 skeet loads for under $6 per box, but when I had to buy powder,primers, and more shot last year, that cost jumped to over $9 per box. I am now seeing 410AA skeet loads selling for over $20 per box, so shooting around 3000 rounds per year, the savings are huge.
 
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