Why do slugs cost more than real ammunition?

[badger5th]

I also used to scrounge lead from the pistol range berm at my gun club. Used to go on Sunday morning since local noise ordinances don't allow shooting till after 1pm on Sunday. Would pick up close to 20 lbs in a half hour. Most of it was similar in hardness to wheel weights (BHN 7-8), pure lead is BHN 5. Don't know how well wheel weight alloy would work in a slug gun.

 

[badger5th]

Because we pay that much. If people would quit paying that amount the price would drop or they would disappear from the market because they are not commercially viable.
I reloaded for years. But when you could get 9mm by the 1000 round case for $189.00 it quit making sense to reload handgun ammo.
You take all the material cost, cost of equipment and then you have to figure out what your time is worth. Being self employed I can make more money in an hour working than I can save reloading any round I shoot.

I used to handload 5.56mm NATO and 7.62x39 Russian. And this was back when 20 rounds of either was $5-$6. The component cost to handload either of these worked out the same as buying at that cost. The thing was my reloads were much more accurate than the factory stuff.

 

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