The cost of reloading my .243

[Beretta28g]

If I didn't home load I couldn't shoot

A bullet for me works out at

Brass £1.60 if I get 3 firings I'm lucky

Powder 1 £0.11

Primer 1 £0.03

Primer 2 £0.05

Powder 2 £0.50

Bullet £1.10

Total £3.28 and that's a conservative estimate not including propane

£1.10 per bullet?!

Thats a big bullet then!?

.50?

 

I have over 10 firings from Norma brass in most calibre/cartridges

You start with a .375 H & H case and anneal it.

Then you run it through two sets of dies to take it down to .300 H & H then to .244 H & H.

Then you load a standard primer with 20 grains of red dot and a square of bog paper. Load this in the rifle and fire it.

Tumble the cases, and then re anneal, then full length resize to .244 H & H. It's common to loose 20% of cases by this point to splits in the neck, however the second annealing is starting to help prevent this.

Then it's a magnum primer, 78 grains of H50BMG and a 85 grain Barnes TSX and you are good to go. ( 50 Barnes cost me £31).

It's rare to get that many firings from the brass on verge three. If you use Norma brass it's especially bad, with more splitting on fireforming, and not lasting as long, Winchester was the best but I can't find new Winchester 375 cases at present.

[Bewsher500]

 

You start with a .375 H & H case and anneal it.

Then you run it through two sets of dies to take it down to .300 H & H then to .244 H & H.

Then you load a standard primer with 20 grains of red dot and a square of bog paper. Load this in the rifle and fire it.

Tumble the cases, and then re anneal, then full length resize to .244 H & H. It's common to loose 20% of cases by this point to splits in the neck, however the second annealing is starting to help prevent this.

Then it's a magnum primer, 78 grains of H50BMG and a 85 grain Barnes TSX and you are good to go. ( 50 Barnes cost me £31).

It's rare to get that many firings from the brass on verge three. If you use Norma brass it's especially bad, with more splitting on fireforming, and not lasting as long, Winchester was the best but I can't find new Winchester 375 cases at present.

ah, nice

 

could you not start with 300 brass?

friend of mine has just built one and bought a load of brass

 

even starting with 300WinMag brass would probably be cheaper wouldnt it?

[Beretta28g]

You sir have a pm, you could be the answer I need.

 

Starting with .300 brass can be done but the brass tends to be thicker and splits more easily

[Bewsher500]

Pm'd you back

I load for 300wm and the Norma and winchester brass is fairly thin at the neck, granted some of the other brands are thick I can see

 

its just more common and usually cheaper

[Beretta28g]

ah, nice

 

could you not start with 300 brass?

friend of mine has just built one and bought a load of brass

 

even starting with 300WinMag brass would probably be cheaper wouldnt it?

You can't use .300 win mag brass, as the brass is too short to make it into .244 brass it's at least 0.12" too short, also the shoulder angle is way wrong and far too far down the case

[valley boy]

just buy ppu`s there only £13 odd a box, iv`e used them for over a year and there`s nothing wrong with them shooting foxes 200 yards plus regular, tried geco and federal did`nt see any difference

[Lloyd90]

just buy ppu`s there only £13 odd a box, iv`e used them for over a year and there`s nothing wrong with them shooting foxes 200 yards plus regular, tried geco and federal did`nt see any difference

 

They shoot alright but if I can shoot better, for cheaper, with a little effort and the low cost of a lee classic loader, then why not ?

[robbiep]

just buy ppu`s there only £13 odd a box, iv`e used them for over a year and there`s nothing wrong with them shooting foxes 200 yards plus regular, tried geco and federal did`nt see any difference

 

The problems happen if your rifle doesn't like PPU : my .223 groups about 4" at 100 metres on PPU, whether 55grain or the 69 grain 'Match'

 

Conversely, if I re-use the PPU brass, put in a Federal Champion primer, 25.0 grains of H4895, and seat a 52 grain A-max (or a 53 grain Hornady Match bullet) on it, then it'll group 1" - quite possibly even tighter than that, I'm pretty sure the biggest weak point is the operator.

[Dickthomas]

CRAZY!

[ditchman]

I started reloading pistol ammunition back in the 1980's, as it was a hell of a lot cheaper than buying factory produced ammo'. For example, reloading .38 special, and using home cast bullets. and shotgun powder,(Nobel 80) it worked out the same price to shoot 100 rounds of .38 as 120 rounds of .22LR.

I enjoy reloading, and I agree that some ammunition - PRVI Partizan for example - is very cheap.

 

 

 

 

christ on a stick................im staggered at the today reloading cost.....back until the "ban" i reloaded all my pistol ammo...38....357...32.....9mm......(cept for my p08...used aluminium IMI)............used to put at least 500 rounds downrange every week................but looking at the cost now.....wow !!!!!