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I'm normally not that easy. But since I JUST got accepted at the gun club, I want to have some ammo to shoot there. Yeah, thinking I might reload 9mm if I can purchase the stuff to do it. It may be hard to get as well.
If you had access to a press you would need the dies (one time cost - less than $50 used), small pistol primers ($35ish per thousand), powder (CFEpistol $28 a pound = 1555ish loads), projectiles (Bayou Coated 124gr $265 for 3500 = 7.6 cents per), and brass (hopefully you have been saving yours). After the dies you could make 124gr RN for about 12.3 cents per round. You probably know somebody with a vibratory cleaner/polisher and a single stage press. On a single stage I can pump out about 95 rounds per hour if everything is going right. On my Dillon 550B progressive press I can press out 400-425 rounds per hour. I spend one or two hours a week on the press.
I have been casting 120gr conical point lead bullets and coating them with High-Tech polymer coating. I have a liter of the coating and I have coated over 10k of bullets and I may have used 1/4 of the solution. It was about $60 back when I got it so a bullet cost me about 2/10 of a penny to produce. I have primers that are over 10 years old that I paid $22 per thousand so I am less than 5 cents per round on 9mm. I only have a 6 place 9mm mold, a 4 place 357 wad cutter mold, and a .308 150-160gr mold that is usable. I also have a .451 mold that only one of the cavities of the 4 is still usable.
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