12ga reloading costs

[charlie cleveland]

in reloading i dont load to many light loads but in loading the high brass shells you can save from 5 to 10 dollars a box of 25..and if you shoot the short ten ga shell or the 8 ga you can save a pile of dough..i too can not get lead shot cheap bought a bag of 25 lbs and it was 53.50...hard to get shot in my parts...charlie

[6pt-Sika]

Dealer cost from the three distributers I usually use are $42 a bag for Magnum grade shot and chilled is maybe 50 cents less !

Usually with shipping figured in as well as a little markup we sell Magnum for about $46 a bag .

[J. A. EARLY]

Someone here shared this so I'll share it again.

http://www.trapshooters.com/rlcalcadv.htm

On the small end, .410 2.5 inch shells with only 1/2 ounce of shot can be loaded for less than a third of the cost of new off the shelf ammo.

Never could understand how a box of 3" .410 shells can cost close to $20. Guess they don't like to make runs of them.