Once upon a time , I used Federal 240 SP ( I think ) for hunting and Magtech for practice...worked well for me. It gets awfully expensive shooting factory stuff. If your going to hunt, ya have to practice, a lot. If ya don't reload, maybe find someone to load for you...that would save ya a bunch of cash....ya gotta practice. good luck
regards , irold
You can get into reloading with the Lee stuff for less than 150 dollars. At 30 dollars a box for 44 magnum,thats 5boxes. Bumble Bee cast bullets will cost you about 35 dollars for 500. (bumblebeecastbullets@aol.com is the email on their card,they said at the gun show they will ship them USPS flat rate,which is still a steal even including shipping) Figure 9 cents each for bullets. Brass gets reused,assume 10 times,so figure 3 cents each. 3 cents per primer and about 6 cents for powder (depending on the powder,Ive been using Accurate 5 which about half that but I hate it because its so fine and I'm just trying to use it up). Thats 21 cents each or $10.50 per box of 50. So at a savings of 20 dollars per box,you break even for your reloading gear after you make 7 boxes of ammo.
If you cast your own bullets you can bring them in for around 3 cents each if you really try and if you use a powder that requires lighter loads you can shave a few cents there,getting it down to around 3 cents each and bring it in for around $6.00 for 50. If you find a source of brass,such as if you have friends that don't reload that shoot 44 magnum,you can shave that off too, and bring it in for $4.50 for a box of 50. If you search around,Ive seen Tula large pistol primers at gun shows for $20 for 1000,so thats 2 cents per primer and brings it to $4.00 for 50.
(Now all I need to do is find someone to pay for my primers and powder and Ill be set
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I do wonder how that cheap Rex powder would work. They don't have loads listed for 44magnum though,but looking at how much is used in a 45acp,It looks like it would cost around 1.5 cents to load a 44magnum. That would be $3.25 for a box of 50!
