Dan,
I know not everyone has access to lead inexpensively, but I have a couple thousand pounds mixed between pure, WW and linotype. To date the most I've paid for any of it has been 10 cents a pound, which is what I paid for the linotype. Market price on lead was 11 cents that day (20+ years ago) and he rounded it down to 10s cent and had 984 pounds. Here's a break down based on what my components cost me, realizing the lead is almost cost free.
2.5 grains of Trail Boss comes to .008 (five pound container @ $116)
90 grain bullet @ 10 cents a pound = .001 - between the powder and the bullet we can round up to 1 cent
New Starline brass bought in a batch of 500 comes to 2 cents based on 10 loadings.
If one catches the S&B primers on sale at Cabelas, they can be had for 2 cents each, otherwise figure 4 cents.
My 32-20 load is costing between 5 and 7 cents a round.
22 LR locally is running between 7-10 cents a round.
I know the cheap lead skews the results but if a guy is diligent deals can be found on lead.
Mart
