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Originally Posted by Jim Bremner
how much will it cost to set up .45 acp, .308, 30/06 & 12 ga...and what system would you buy?
not that I would own anything that fires those rounds...guns are icky
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Please go back to the Toyota or Honda Forum that you must have came from.
For the rest of us Porsche people, it would cost about $900 to set up for a single type of round, and about $200 for each additional type. I will qualify that with the following: For a Porsche type of quality setup. For a Chevy type it can be done for much less, say $200 to $400. I am not really sure because I try not to do things half asssed.
B4 I get a lot of crap from everyone who thinks they can do it for $1.98, remember, you must clean, thats at least $60 to $100, weigh powder $40 to $200, die set $30 to $250, press $50 to $1050, measure $20 to $400, Primer $20 to $??, Books $25 to $300, I am sure I missed something.
Bullets $25 per hundred, Brass $25 per 50, Powder $25 per 140, primers $22 per 1000, cleaning media $15 per bag, cleaning polish $8 per 500. Thats an approx. less for small stuff, more for big stuff.
Bottom line, if you want cheep, buy Wolf, if you want to reload, usually to get good consistent results for competitive shooting, you reload, but at almost the same or higher price than off the shelf ammo. For exotic ammo, like Weatherby at $50 to $120 per box of 20, then reloading makes sense. Or does it? If you are faced with a very mad Lion or water buffalo charging you, ready to eat you and or stomp you into the ground, do you want to use homemade ammo that might misfire or ammo that is extremely reliable and almost certainly will fire EVERY time.