My reloads are costing $0.9021 each at today’s prices for components. And that is not the cost of propane to anneal or case prices. Howver, I am using Sierra bullets which are not quite as expensive as Bergers. (But proving just as accurate in my rifle) Ninety cents per shot. I can’t imagine what people are paying for factory rounds.
Now the backstory
The MPA arrived at my FFL dealer on March 02, 2021 and at our home later that day. First shots were made on March 7th. I have fired 964 rounds though that rifle to date.
After returning home from the range yesterday, having shot both the the MPA for 15 rounds and the RPR for 13 rounds. I made a note to Brenda and she immeadiately remarked, 15 rounds at $2.00 apiece. So, I sat down and figured the cost of reloads thinking surely no more than forty of fifty cents. Boy was I wrong. (keep in mind two things about Brenda, first, she fired about 50 rounds though her handguns, second, she keeps me solvent and we live fairly comfortably for retired folks so I can’t complain about her being tight with the money).
My point. This year I have shot close to a thousand dollars in each Precision Rifle. Growing up, you could purchase a pretty nice car for what I spent in less than a year on Reloads for just those two rifles9. Guess I better start heading out to the range after dark and scarfing up the shot bullets to smelt down the lead.
As I said, can’t complain about the wife, Every successful move I have made since surviving Vietnam, has been with her advice and help. She is the definition of a Good Wife. (And fusses at me like I am a dog sometimes but she gets the same or better from me, ain’t life grand?)
Now the backstory
The MPA arrived at my FFL dealer on March 02, 2021 and at our home later that day. First shots were made on March 7th. I have fired 964 rounds though that rifle to date.
After returning home from the range yesterday, having shot both the the MPA for 15 rounds and the RPR for 13 rounds. I made a note to Brenda and she immeadiately remarked, 15 rounds at $2.00 apiece. So, I sat down and figured the cost of reloads thinking surely no more than forty of fifty cents. Boy was I wrong. (keep in mind two things about Brenda, first, she fired about 50 rounds though her handguns, second, she keeps me solvent and we live fairly comfortably for retired folks so I can’t complain about her being tight with the money).
My point. This year I have shot close to a thousand dollars in each Precision Rifle. Growing up, you could purchase a pretty nice car for what I spent in less than a year on Reloads for just those two rifles9. Guess I better start heading out to the range after dark and scarfing up the shot bullets to smelt down the lead.
As I said, can’t complain about the wife, Every successful move I have made since surviving Vietnam, has been with her advice and help. She is the definition of a Good Wife. (And fusses at me like I am a dog sometimes but she gets the same or better from me, ain’t life grand?)
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