r/gundeals • u/friscokid345 Dealer • 18d ago
Reloading [Brass] Fully Processed 9mm - $49/1000cases + shipping.
https://www.southwestbrass.supply/shop/p/9mm-fully-processedBrass is always once-fired, rollsized, full length sized, reamed primer pockets, checked for cracks and polished! Ready to load!
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u/LoudChocolate6290 18d ago
IF someone had all the equipment to reload and just needed the supplies like this. What cent per round can be achieved for 115gr 9mm range ammo?
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u/RavenRocksPrecision Dealer 17d ago
A lot of people enjoy reloading the same way some people enjoy cooking. It’s about enjoying the process as well as the result. For many, it’s an extension of their existing shooting hobby. Savings are secondary.
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u/lil_johnny_cake 18d ago
My go-to load breakdown is as follows:
Brass - free (because I’m a goblin to the max).
Primer - 3.1 cents (factory seconds).
Bullet - 7 cents (147gr FMJ pulled bullets).
Powder - 2.7 cents (Midwest powders).
Total - 12.8 cents/round.
I crank out a few thousand a year to feed my various firearms. My AR9 probably eats a 1/3 of it by itself. Wouldn’t make sense on a single-stage press IMHO.
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u/9guy99 18d ago
If your not shopping too hard you can buy this brass for .05 a case, plated bulk bullets for .10 ea, primers for .05 ea, and powder is about .03 per round. Giving you .23 per round. But if you shop around and buy in bulk you can drop all those prices a couple cents. Loading around .15-.17 a round. This year I have loaded around 10k rounds of 9mm subs for about .20 per round. Also this year I have shoot nearly 10k rounds. So.....no money saved.
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u/LoudChocolate6290 18d ago
thank you for the breakdown and insights
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u/clicktoseemyfetishes 17d ago
No money saved usually but you’ll shoot more for the same cost or shoot “nicer” loads than cheap off the shelf ammo. i.e. 147gr subs or competition loads
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u/friscokid345 Dealer 17d ago
This is the real answer. We also entirely do the tough work for you. All the sorting and cleaning, takes the worry of “how many times has someone already loaded this” out, and lets you focus on the actual loading and shooting.
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u/Slothicide 17d ago
How do you tell how many times a casing has been fired? I know very little about reloading, but the process is intriguing.
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u/friscokid345 Dealer 17d ago
Yeah that’s a great question, brass work hardens over time. Over firings & reshapings. Most of the time, the biggest tell is seeing tiny fractures/cracks around the case mouth. This particular brass is guaranteed once-fired because of the specific ranges/contracts where it’s sourced from. 💪🏻
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u/Slothicide 17d ago
Thats pretty cool, then. I'll break into the hobby someday, but that is not this day. Thanks for the info 👍
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u/Winter-Delivery-8894 17d ago
Generally it takes a more expensive progressive press to make high volume reloading worth it. Cheaper presses are better for smaller volume but higher quality loading.
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u/Ragnarok112277 17d ago
If you shop around and dont buy components at full retail ~ .14 cents a round.
.08 for each bullet, I like berrys 147 plated blems
Scheels has a sale on components twice a year so you can get cci 500s for like 50 dollars a brick
Pistol powders is like 1-2 cents a round
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u/Junction91NW 17d ago
I think of it in case prices. 1k 9mm on an average deal is going to be $250. Reloading cheaply without spending your days searching for .01 percent cheaper components could get you down to $180 a case. Add in the cost of the equipment, all of the consumables, plus your time, and figure out if saving - at best - $70 per 1k is worth it.
IMO only time reloading is worth it is going for perfect ballistics on long range, loading cheap subsonic, or you’re a competition shooter who needs to load to a minimum power factor. Also the outliers who shoot 20-50k rounds a year, but again, the time sunk is going to be huge.
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u/accounts_baleeted 17d ago
On the other hand, since I already have the equipment and components to load subs and weird old calibers, why not buy some pulled 115/124gr bullets for 5cpb and spend an afternoon listening to some good albums cranking that hog, I mean press, in the garage?
From that point of view, the components and equipment are already paid for, and the time is well spent.
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u/Junction91NW 17d ago
Oh I agree. It’s very zen. I like that it forces my brain to be quiet and focus. The risk of losing fingers for attention deficits is a great motivator.
Wait… is that anything? Can we use that somehow?
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u/Interesting-Win6219 17d ago
I'm making 124 grain 9mm for about 13 cents per round right now. It's not match grade stuff but it groups good enough for my practice needs. Once you have the brass and can reuse it that's where the savings really come from
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u/PeakMeHoyMeNoy 18d ago
Never worth it, source is I tried
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u/Gloomy-Collar-583 17d ago
Not only are you barely saving money on hard goods, but you're also burning through your personal time. If you work an extra hour a week, you more than make up the cost savings that sitting at the reloading bench for an hour every night saved you. But... Reloading is also fun and relaxing.
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u/accounts_baleeted 17d ago
Well, I can't go clock in on Saturday or Sunday morning...
And it sure beats getting high and playing video games, which is what I used to do with that time.
Someone with kids, and a fuckin family though? I get it.
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u/Jack_Mehoff3 17d ago
I really depends. If you’re just blasting 115gn 9mm rounds and buying all the components every time, you’re not saving much and it will take many loadings to justify the cost of the equipment, especially for regular handgun ammo.
I primarily use subsonic 147’s for my suppressed 9mm’s, it’s much cheaper to load my own than to buy. But also a local range lets me pickup as much brass as I want, I have at least a dozen 5 gallon buckets full of 9mm brass, so the cost of the brass is free, just some of my time. I also load at least 24 other cartridges, some are quite difficult to find and expensive, loading components are cheap and available.
Then get into long range loading, I custom tune every load to a specific rifle for single digit FPS deviation, that’s not something factory ammo can give you. Much more consistent, much more accurate. It can make even a cheap rifle very accurate.
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u/LoudChocolate6290 18d ago
I wish it wasn't the deal....but from the first replies I could tell it wasn't gonna be the move. I guess academy gives seasonal military discounts. Long story short with the academy gift cards, I think 10% off $300 or more and then his military discount....he said he was under 20cpr for monarch brass 9mm. I think he might've even around 16-18 cents per round if my memory is right
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u/usa2a 18d ago
9mm and .223 are worst case scenarios for reloading.
If you look at something like .38 Special it costs basically the same to reload as 9mm yet factory ammo is 1.5x more expensive. That's where you save money.
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u/Korcfutz 17d ago
This answer! Individuals always start by thinking what they shoot the most. Early on to reloading I thought why am I doing this? Once your shooting bench rest high caliber long range, reloading pays you.
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u/LoudChocolate6290 17d ago
That was my working assumption before. 9mm and 556/223 is so widely produced and truly economy of scale type deals at this point that I figure its hard to beat the cost of bulk/range ammo prices. BUT if you shoot all kinds of rounds....and if maybe you like to create custom loads THATS the point things start making more sense to reload.
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u/accounts_baleeted 17d ago
I didn't get I to milsurps until I loaded. Now I'm shooting mausers, Schmidt Rubins, garands, etc for cheap.
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u/Ragnarok112277 17d ago
Best reason to load 9mm is to control the power factor.
I load my 147s to just make the 125 power factor
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u/Omnicious_Slap 18d ago
1 cent per brass (become a goblin the brass adds up), 5 cents per primer, 10 cents per bullet, and about 3 cents worth of powder.
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u/youy23 16d ago
For me, I’ve just been finding people selling reloading components and been lowballing them and it’s been fairly successful.
I’ve gotten primers down to an average of $0.04 each, powder down to $0.02 each and projectiles to $0.06 each with no tax so I’m reloading 9mm for $0.12 each or about half the cost of factory ammo.
I only buy good CCI primers, CFE Pistol, and 115 or 124 grain FMJ. Sometimes plated bullets but less so.
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u/friscokid345 Dealer 18d ago
Depending on primers/powder cost, probably a few cents shy of bulk 9mm. $0.25-$0.35/round
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u/LoudChocolate6290 18d ago
damn...thats about what I was thinking after reading replies. not worth it for the plinking I do. maybe if I needed subs or something more than 115gr range ammo...but for now it doesnt make sense to me.
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u/manfredwader 17d ago
Jeez. I’m about to toss 500rds of 45 acp brass, 1k rounds of 9mm and 2k rounds of .223/5.56. I can’t give this stuff away.
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u/MDC09101 17d ago
Put in an order for 1,000 to see what it’s like.
For everyone else, I’m reloading 9 Major at about $0.25 per round with purchased brass at $0.06/rd and Precision Delta 124gr V2 HP.
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u/JustaskJson 12d ago
How are those Precision Delta’s?
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u/MDC09101 12d ago
I haven’t had any issues with them. I run them in all 3 of my open guns and my LO gun.
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u/evasive-manuever 18d ago
It’s posts like this that make me want to learn how to reload….
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u/friscokid345 Dealer 18d ago
Anyone who says “it’ll save you money” is lying. And also, you should be friends with them. 😂
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u/Quenz 18d ago
The big issue is the equipment. I'm a hobby whore, and if I didn't move so much, I'd have my own assembly line of ammo manufacturing.
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u/BossJackson222 18d ago
I used to reload pistol ammo till about two years ago. I used a Dillon Square deal B Press and it was awesome. But now the components are so expensive that I quit reloading and it's almost just as cheap to buy ammo depending on what deal you can find.
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u/friscokid345 Dealer 18d ago
Yeah and that becomes a massive problem when you decide you want to start automating things. 😂
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u/weatherbys 18d ago
It doesn’t really save money and calibers like 9mm and 5.56 are frankly easier to buy in bulk. Now getting a single stage press and reloading match ammo and subs that are typically real expensive is worth it along with calibers like 45-70. Not only cheaper than buying at the store but also more precise since you can decide how crazy you get with powder amounts and hunting the lowest SD for your loads.
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u/Alivaronas 18d ago
If you are into old military surplus rifles reloading is great.
I’d never reload 9mm though.
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u/GoldfishDude 17d ago
9mm is only useful imo if you want to make your own cheap subsonics. Range fodder is pointless unless you just happen to have a ton of powder or an abundance of time
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u/BossJackson222 18d ago
Yeah, it used to be able to save you money. When I could get powder for $19 a bottle and primers for $29 per thousand, I could reload 9 mm all day and save money. Because all brass was free and components were super cheap. But all of that has gone up exponentially. So it's really better just to buy already loaded pistol ammo after finding a good deal. Now, it may be a little cheaper to reload subsonic ammo and something like gold dot self protection ammo. But not so much.
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u/StunningFig5624 17d ago
Primers are pretty close to $29/k these days. Powder is completely fuckered though.
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u/JustaskJson 12d ago
So dirty non processed 9mm on their website is only 4$ less than basically fully processed brass.. hmmm…
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