how many members cast your own bullets?

[Grumpy]

I have to wonder , how many members cast your own bullets?
I recently priced a couple thousand 357 mag bullets from several vendors and you can literally save,
hundreds of dollars, over an amazingly short time, if you get into casting your own bullets,
even if you are forced to buy the bullet molds, lube sizers, lead melting pot etc.
even if you buy low quality cast bullets your very likely to pay at least 15 cents each or more,
and when you shoot thousands of cartridges that eventually adds up to a considerable cost
making cast your own bullets seem like a no-brainer, and if you otherwise might have used jacketed bullets ,
the cost can be several times higher (there's zero advantage, in use of jacketed bullets in a hand gun,
in accuracy or performance on game that I've experienced)
(in fact the proper hard cast designs have proven to be very accurate and lethal on deer/hogs/elk, in my experience)
I've used a 357 mag, a 10mm, a 44 mag, a 445 DWSM, and a 500 S&W all very successfully with various hard cast bullet designs

 

[rlphvac]

I've been casting bullets for a few years as far as savings goes I will probably never see that because any extra goes back into more calibers or tools for loading but I started with the idea of loading a couple pistol calibers but now I load for 38 different calibers of rifle and pistol, wet and dry tumblers a brass dryer, a couple sonic cleaners, 3 electric scales and 2 balance scales a powder dropper casting molds heaters and 3 presses 1 for sizing cast bullets a single stage and a progressive press, powders, primers, brass, digital calipers, micrometers, the list goes on and on and I enjoy every minute of it I call it therapy so everyone who hasn't done it get busy you have some catching up to do LOL

 

[Grumpy]

I fully understand and appreciate the constant need ( and your (and my) desire) for an ever increasing batch of related and improved (probably more expensive) tools, but if you were to
calculate what you would have spent on commercial bullets at the same rate you now produce and fire the ones you cast, it won't take long for you to have broken even, at least in theory... yeah I know(if your like I am) you probably have hundreds if not thousands cast that are sitting in storage waiting to be loaded or in loaded ammo you might not shoot for.. a few weeks, months or maybe decades