deershooter Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 (edited) You would struggle to reload a 1000 at that price. If you made your own lead shot and could buy the raw lead at £1kg you would be able to do a 1000 at around the £180 mark. Its not about the cost so much but more to do with making what you want rather than having to buy what the shop wants to sell you..Your miles out 1000 wads £18 28 kg shot £72 1.3 kg powder £38 1000 primers. £24 That's £152 0per 1000 Now use reclaimed shot 1000 wads. £18 28 kg reclaimed shot £42 1.3 kg powder. £38 Primers from cut offs £15 That's £113 per 1000 The cheapest possible Homemade shot £28 Harpen wads. £12 Powder from cut offs £18 Primers from cut offs £10 That's £68 per 1000 I now not every one has cut offs but this is how cheap it can be if you can get lead from your builder mates you could load for £40 per 1000 The average man in the street buys 1 lb powder and 500 wads 1000 primers You have to buy in bulk to make it cheap and shop around Like 1 ton of lead ,15 kg of powder, 9600 primers ,10000 wads The £152 price is the equivalent of Hull soverine or Rc 4 , express World Cup Edited November 13, 2015 by deershooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super sharp shooter Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Looks like i need to shop around if you can do it at that price.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 ours works out at approx £96 per 1000 thats what John worked it out at.. we buy powder 20 kilo at a time wads 15,000, primers 10,000 a time, we make our own lead shot all the lead is given to us by a mate who is a roofer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmitty Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Your miles out 1000 wads £18 28 kg shot £72 1.3 kg powder £38 1000 primers. £24 That's £152 0per 1000 Now use reclaimed shot 1000 wads. £18 28 kg reclaimed shot £42 1.3 kg powder. £38 Primers from cut offs £15 That's £113 per 1000 The cheapest possible Homemade shot £28 Harpen wads. £12 Powder from cut offs £18 Primers from cut offs £10 That's £68 per 1000 I now not every one has cut offs but this is how cheap it can be if you can get lead from your builder mates you could load for £40 per 1000 The average man in the street buys 1 lb powder and 500 wads 1000 primers You have to buy in bulk to make it cheap and shop around Like 1 ton of lead ,15 kg of powder, 9600 primers ,10000 wads The £152 price is the equivalent of Hull soverine or Rc 4 , express World Cup Is that for fibre wads as quoted in my post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 (edited) Subsonic 30gram 5's in 20 gauge. Gamebore £300/1k Me £15 per 1000 primers £44 per 1.1kg A0 £30 16mm fibre wad and obturator Home made shot is largely free. Edited November 13, 2015 by sitsinhedges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenholland Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 at the end of the day you made it and it works that's what it's all about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 My break even is about 200 knickers. That's just pants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
propercartridges Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 well I was just about to tell you my costs but then thought better as you wood not like to give me profit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farma Geddon Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 My break even is about 200 knickers. That's just pants If you have 200 knickers , you must be Casinova. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Albert Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 (edited) ours works out at approx £96 per 1000 thats what John worked it out at.. we make our own lead shot all the lead is given to us by a mate who is a roofer. I have been thinking of starting to make my own shot but cannot get hold of the wheel weights. They're all bloody zinc now. What do you add to the lead to harden it up? Edited January 29, 2016 by Uncle Albert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 I have been thinking of starting to make my own shot but cannot get hold of the wheel weights. They're all bloody zinc now. What do you add to the lead to harden it up? We have some antimony that we bought a couple of years ago we use that never used wheel weights. A couple of times when we made some lead we forgot to put any in and just used the roofing lead my mate gives me for nothing still seems to work ok Back to Bullets, Cartridges and Reloading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1961 Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Go to a car breakers yard they will let you have them cheep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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