For me, reloading is a hobby in and of itself. I don't do it for the cheaper ammo, or so I can shoot more, or anything at all like that. I'm simply intrigued by the whole endeavor. The endless possible combinations, the experimentation, the tinkering - I love it; it's a lot of fun for me. That, and after years of shooting pretty run-of-the-mill stuff, my interests have shifted towards the out-of-the-ordinary. Arms chambered in calibers for which we can no longer buy ammunition, for which we have to form cases from something else, cast bullets for them, and generally blaze our own trail. I enjoy the challenge of making something shoot once more, something that may not have spoken in my lifetime or longer. Shooting off-the-shelf .30-'06 in an off-the-shelf bolt gun, or surplus .45 ACP in some generic 1911 just doesn't do it for me anymore.

I haven't fired any commercial ammo in my rifles/handguns since I started reloading my own ammo last fall.