Popped I to a few places today just looking at ammo prices and I gotta say for anything past just burner ammo or if you shoot less then a box a year is still cheaper to reload. I don't shoot anything I can't shoot game with so Heck for an average practice session with my 06 if I bought ammo i could have gotta pound of power or box of bullets for 20 loaded rounds for two boxes for alot of this stuff I could have gotten 1000 primers and by the time I tried enough different ammo to see what shoots the way I want in my gun at these prices I could have paid for powder primers bullets and hazmat! Jeeezzz

my 223 soft point is running me right about 38 cents a round these days 13 cent bullet , 8.2 in primer , 16.3 in powder

that is 77 dollar brick of primers and a 45 dollar pound of powder

I was at 9 cent bullets , 2.5 cent primers , and 22 dollar a pound powder or 8 cents so I was at 19.5 cents

my cost about doubled but you can't hardly touch even bulk 223 for less than 60 cents a round