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You guys are forgeting the best reason to reload!!!! Quality!!
When I had my Witness-P I used to shove all sorts of cheap crap into it. Mostly Win WB and S&B. After accumulating a coffee can of brass I got some dies and made up some fairly genaric reloads using Titegroup. Loaded 5 and tested them for pressure then loaded up about 200 more with some el'cheapo jacketed HP bullets from a gun show. We were at the range one day and I was getting my normal "paper plate" accuracy using cheap factory stuff. Finally burned up the cheap stuff and broke out the reloads to try. Fired off ten shots into 3" @ 20yards without even trying. Just lined up the sigths and pulled the trigger as soon as the sights hit the bullseye.
I have never fired a factory ammo that could compare with even my worst reloads. Handguns or rifles, no diff. Everytime I try it's better. And cheaper!
Cheap ammo may be "fairly" cheap but it's crap. If you want to compare prices compare apples to apples. How does the price of reloading compare against the price of quality ammo?
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Well, I'll grant that cheap factory ammo is nothing to write home about and my handloads easily do better too, but the top line factory SD ammo, is, for the most part, very good, IME.
I'm talking about stuff like Gold Dots, Hydra-Shocks, Talons, Golden Sabers, etc.
Not all guns like all bullets, but those factory loads in a gun that likes them, are easily the equal of most reloads, not necessarily better, but certainly, as good.
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It all depends on your position... if you have brass and load in bulk numbers, you come out cheaper. And Outcast is right.. buying at wal-mart is cheaper right now. Even once the brass is fired, the only way to save money is to buy bullets 500 at a time, primers by the thousand, and powder in 8lb. cans.
The Only Accuracy Issue With 99.99% Of Weapons Is The Nut On The End Of The Buttstock.
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the only way to save money is to buy bullets 500 at a time, primers by the thousand, and powder in 8lb. cans. You mean they come in smaller quantities! 
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
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my point was that joe average can't afford to go buy 500 bullets, 1000 primers, and an 8lb. can of powder at the same time, and average joe usually won't have 500 empties either. those of us who shoot a lot do. I know my empty .45 brass count is somewhere around 4,000 right now.
The Only Accuracy Issue With 99.99% Of Weapons Is The Nut On The End Of The Buttstock.
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1k primer $30
500 bullets $85 for remington 230gr
1lb titegroup x2 $35
$150 That ain't so bad
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