sungazer wrote:It can be a bit more thou than Bladracer and Gwion have stated they are giving prices for specials and bulk and not necessarily top brass such as Lapua that will set you back a bit more and may not get you that many more reloads depending if you anneal it or not which again adds cost.
Retail prices can be $60 for 500g of AR2206H at the LGS if you can buy from the VRA and get a 4kg it works out probably the cheapest.
Lapua cases for 308 about $150-$170 for 100 for a 243 they are $170-200
CCI Primers $60/1000
Projectiles I normally find the ones I want are about $55-$90/100 some are $260/500 a Sierra 180gr can be $89/100
On the other hand you can get Remington Core lokit for $34/20 or Hornday Precision Hunter for $65/20 and even up from there. So it really depends on your wants/needs .
It can be a great deal more expensive than the figures I used, and also quite a lot cheaper, but they weren't special or bulk prices.
I like Norma brass, but often it's too expensive for my needs. For something like the .204 which I shoot hot and a lot, then the Norma is worth while, but for the milsurps in which I generally shoot fairly relaxed loads, I use cheaper brass - but never Winchester - that stuff is garbage. Lapua is totally unnecessary in my opinion, unless you're shooting for extreme accuracy. Annealing doesn't cost anything that I'm aware of, perhaps a little propane?
I've never bothered asking for prices on 4kg powders as it's too hard to store several of them in the safe. But I have a lot of empty 500's now so I could transfer a 4kg into eight 500gm bottles. I have AR2206H, AR2209, BM8208, Trailboss and blackpowder currently. The last two are cheaper than the normal $60/500gm, which is why I use a figure of $100/kg as an average.
What do the 4kg bottles cost, and do you actually save anything?
For bullets I'll buy several different types for testing a new caliber, generally looking for a slow heavy bullet and a fast light bullet, and perhaps something in between if the range is wide. Plus a few types of the cheapest bullets for Trailboss loads.