The savings per box however large or small is easily and quickly calculated using an on-line reloading cost calculator, link below. Obviously the cost per box varies depending on the cost of components we each pay. Presently for me a box of 7/8 ounce 12ga reloads costs 75 cents less per box of 25 vs 1 1/8 ounce loading. Your milage may vary.

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

Rich, the only increase in primers and wads is more shells loaded. :banghead: It's good to know I'm not the only crazy old fart in Michigan.:bigbye:

Pete, thanks for the link - but I can't get it to work. I filled out the top part - couldn't see how to do the bottom. Hit calculate and a bunch of junk came up. I've been reloading 3/4oz shells for about a year now and have found no difference than when shooting 7/8 or 1oz loads. A fellow at our club who shoots register trap tried the 3/4oz loads and claimed they didn't shoot as high as his 1oz loads. I've never pattered mine because I've been doing so good with them I'm afraid to. Ya that's stupid, but if I can break SC's targets out to 40/45yds hard, I don't want to know. I just got this old rusty beat up 10ga 1882 Rem hammergun and using Gaugemates to shoot 12ga 3/4oz loads I've been shooting some of my best scores, and it has over .030 chokes. Since I had the chambers of both guns opened to 2 7/8", tomorrow I'm gonna try my Parker 10ga lifter with the Gaugemates - hope I do as good. Both guns are about the same except the Parker looks a lot nicer seeing how someone before me had the damascus barrels redone. It's fun to shoot 3/4oz through a 10ga.

You fill out the top part of the calculator with cost and amount and number of grains of powder, cost of shot, weight of payload, primers and wads cost and amount and hit calculate. The "junk" is the cost info of the load. You can do it with or without hull cost. If you want shoot me your cost/amount/weight data and I will tell you what it comes up with.

Pete, I can't get the calculator to work either.

I am not sure where folks are encountering problems with the reloading calculator, it is working fine for me. Below is a snapshot of what it returned for me on my cost for a box of 25 12ga 7/8 ounce load ($4.12). Hopefully this will provide clues as to what was not entered correctly. It could be an issue with the web browser one is using. I did this with IE 8.

pete this price of 4.12 a box is that by already having your own hulls.. and that is a good price for a box of shells..about the cheapest factory load at wal mart is 6.00 a box..quite a bit of savings... charlie

That is without the cost of the hull, I have thousands of them in my basement from my years of active ATA trap shooting so it will be a very long time before I buy any hulls.

When I added a cost of $7 per hundred hulls and 6 reloads per hull the cost of a box of 25 7/8 ounce loads is $4.41 using current prices on components I am paying this year.

If I increase the payload to 1 ounce cost goes to $4.78 a box with that hull cost.

If I increase the payload to 1 1/8 ounce and increase powder charge for it the cost comes to $5.16 a box buying hulls for .07 a piece.

I wasn't hitting the right key - the "calculate" isn't on the bottom but about 1/2 way down the gray area. I was clicking on the very bottom - and that was wrong.

Paul, thanks I was also clicking on the bottom, now it works