Quote Originally Posted by Colorado Osprey
Here is a real savings...steel duck loads
40# preium steel shot $70
powder $35
wads $10
Primers $30
Total cost of $145/1000 or $0.15 per round compared to almost a dollar a round for purchased ammo.
$0.85 per round...that's savings!

Time...depends where you live....it's easily an hour each way for me to go buy ammo.
I can reload 100-200 rounds in 15 minutes pretty easily. The reason I state a range in that time period is because I might need to refill primers, powder or shot. 15 minutes...I don't count that time as valuable time...I spend more than that cleaning the shotgun.

Let's see, cost of reloader...well you can get a single stage for $100, that means if you re-load steel shells it's paid for itself in just 4 boxes!

If you shoot anything over 1000 rounds a year it saves to reload shotgun shells.