Winchester white box .357mag, is it now like .380 was?

atl3axj said:

are you being sarcasic or you can actually reload it for that cheap? $3/50?
what about 9 mm?
thanks in advance

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Two excellent questions. The first one is excellent because I am very sarcastic. My answer to the second question will answer both questions.

My $3.00/box is based on me getting free lead. This is an ideal situation, but one that any determined cheap bastard can develope. I count the bullets as free because I don't count my time, since I enjoy the casting. It's like fishing, except I'm guaranteed to get 500 fish in an hour or so.

The brass is free, since it last through many loadings and you can build a big pile of it quiclky if you're dealing with common calibers. Get lucky at the range when four guys show up and shoot two boxes of 40SW each and leave, you've got 400 pieces good for 10 loads each, for free. So your next 4,000 rounds are covered in terms of brass, along with the free bullets.

The only thing you have to pay for is primers and powder. Even if you do a bad job of shopping, you can get 1000 primers and a pound of powder for $50.00. That's easily enough to do 1000 rounds (20 boxes) for $50.00. Call that $2.50 a box.

Don't be intimidatd by high priced progressive machines and internet babble. Get a good book like Hornady, Lyman, Speer, and read through it a few times. Then spend $100.00-$150.00 on a single stage set up that you will use for the rest of your life, and make ammo. Later, if you want to spend $500.00-$1,000.00 on a Dillon or whatever, go for it, you'll stll need your single stage press for other jobs. Buy your bullets at first to simplify things, then earn how to cast after you have some expirience reloading.