How many hours will it take you to load those 2,000 rounds you "priced" Heck with you working 96 hours a day how do you have time to load 2,000 rounds at 62 cents a piece. You said one time you were making around 40.00 an hour so add that to the cost of reloading. Because if you are reloading you ain't back hoeing !!!
You must have found some bargains around I'm sure they are out there. But before I made this question on cost I priced components and couldn't come up with rounds that cheap....

You said reloads? Are you full length sizing the brass? One rifle may have a slightly oversized chamber that prevents proper chambering in another rifle.

Going slow and checking thing over about 4 hours. I devided my hours into my income just now and my average was $42 but that's a more than half a years worth of hours in overtime, proffit sharing, and 4 weeks of vacation pay added in. . My hourly rate is $ 29.63 and if I looked at everything I enjoy doing in $ per hour I would surly not trap, hunt or farm.

I did work 97.3 hrs last week but have never worked 96 in a day. If you would buy the rounds I'm loading factory they would be much more expensive. Yes I know where to find the deals and that's the point of loading my own. I get a better quality more accurate product for a much better price.

So on those cold raining days or nights you can't get to sleep that's when you go load a some ammo. Or maybe spending time loading ammo instead of wasting it watching grown men play kids games and looking at stats and brackets. It's all dependent on what a person's interest are. You watch men play games while I custom load ammo and save some money in the process. Seems like one is more cost effective than the other. I have not turned on the TV in over 2 years maybe longer. Not that one is better than to other we all spend out time on things we enjoy.


Op it could be a tighter chamber in that gun but seems like that would be an every round problem not now and then. Have you tried any factory ammo just to rule out that as an issue?

Edit 2. also when you get on a kick you can really pile up the ammo. I'm shooting ammo I loaded 15 years ago and have thousands and thousands of rounds left in several cars and components to load thousands more.

Look harder, 32 cents a round not counting brass is doable.

I just had 3000 bullets delivered to the door for 7.5 cents each, 8 cents for a primer and 17.5 cents for the powder. Cheaper for the powder if ordered by the keg.

Thats 33 cents not counting brass.

Why must a man put a cost to his time? Do you put a cost to your time watching football or fishing?

Now the interesting thing is 5.56 ammo is going down. Probably get it shipped to the house for 45 cents maybe 50. That makes it a was but than reloading can be considered fun and I almost find it therapeutic

Back to the original post.

Kart, have you tried a different BCG that would be my first try after that try some factory ammo.

Two easy things to quickly rule out.

I would make sure barrel nut is tight. Then take BCG and put in a pot of boiling water. After about 10 min take it out and it will dry in seconds. But a little lube on it and go shoot it. You do not need to take it a part. The boiling water will do that for you.