Is it worth reloading 9mm

[bigi]

Since both my wife and I shoot IPSC, it is worth it for us. Cost about $12-$13 per 100. Buy bulk quantities like 10000 plated bullets at $80/1000 tax in, etc.

 

[Kryogen]

This depends entirely on how much you value your time. I rough price my fee time at about $150/hour. Loading almost anything is not a value proposition.

I would rather reload than work more. So I would say that does not really apply.
I could work more and not reload, I prefer to reload and work less....
In the end I work the same and reload more, whatever.

 

[1000yards]

I just finished my first batch of reloaded 9mm, using a 30 buck lee loader,
And I even did it at work! Double win?

 

[cheier]

I got into reloading in hopes of saving money but what ended up happening is I shoot a crap ton more. It used to be an occasion when I'd get a couple of 20 round boxes of 50AE and I'd try to make them last. Now, I go through 50 rounds every range visit. So if you're hoping to decrease your ammo budget, I doubt it will happen. You'll just get a lot more for the same money.

I hear ya on that one. I'm reloading for .500 S&W. At over $60 for a box of 20, reloading is a no brainer. I have about 200 rounds of cast (estimated $40.60 excluding cost of brass) and 100 rounds jacketed (estimated $121.70). Given that I've already fired 133 rounds ($26.07 in components), so far, the overall ammo cost has been $188.37, whereas to take the ammo I've already shot plus the ammo I have in storage and look at that as an estimated factory ammo cost, it would be about $3 per round, or $1300. So given that, a savings of over $1100 means I've paid off all my reloading and casting equipment.

I haven't included brass as a cost factor in these numbers, but if I were to include it, I'd be at about $250 into brass, some of which are already on their third reload.

When I go to the range, I am generally bringing a brick of 50 rounds. The non-reusable components wind up costing me less than the cost of 22 WMR that I fire in my PMR30.

 

[ipscgraz]

Loading is therapeutic, if you have a highball or high stress job. I am also a hoarder by nature and I enjoy the stacks of coffee cans of brass in a dozen caliber along with primers bought 10 000 or 30 000 at a time. The only downside is when you have to move...all those boxes of 124 gr. are heavy.

 

[Kryogen]

Yup, helps to relieve job stress. My job is stressful, pulling a handle is not....
And I am a horder also, I love to see containers full of brass and other components, and that gives a use to my ton of empty plastic jars that I hoard, eh eh.

 

[CV32]

Absolutely worth it to reload. Picking up all the range brass after a while doing it, not so much.