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Reloading Cost Calculator
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 5:46 pm
by uncle58
I have put up 2 reloading costing programs on the following pages
http://alicespringspistolclub.com.au/Imperial.html if you buy your powder in pounds OR
http://alicespringspistolclub.com.au/metric.htm if you buy your powder in metric containers. They have been checked out for accuracy by a couple of folks who do their own reloading and they tell me it's spot on.
Hope the folks here find them useful.
Cheers
Uncle
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:39 pm
by mick_762
Cheers Uncle. always good to find an easier way to work out the price Vs Factory ammo.
Mick
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 8:41 pm
by spinna
Very cool Uncle58
Just played around with it for a while, and Bookmarked it (Thumbs up smiley)
Thanks
spinna
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 8:49 pm
by kickinback
Thanks bloke
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:04 pm
by frakka
Welcome from me too Uncle58, don't see too many references to Lee Marvin around these days.
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:23 pm
by MISSED
Thank you and Welcome
What a terrific first post (Thumbs up emicon)
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:25 pm
by Flip
Howdy, Welcome and Thanks very much
very informative
Flip
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:06 pm
by uncle58
Thanks guys glad it will be of some use.
Spinna
In Firefox or IE10 select
File: Save Page As: and when the dialog box comes up asking you where you want to save it on your computer make sure the
Save It As Type that you select
Web Page complete. That way it will download not only the page but the javascript file that does the maths calculations too. You can then either put a short cut on your desktop or double click it if you remember where you saved it and it will open up and work even if you are not on the internet.
Frakka
don't see too many references to Lee Marvin around these days
The movie that had my all time favorite cowboys in "The man who shot Liberty Valance" John Wayne and Lee Marvin and he starred with my third favorite Clint Eastwood in Paint your wagon. Showing my age now
To all the others, I've been lurking for awhile and wanted my first post to be useful and add to the general pool of knowledge, many of you I have concluded (from my reading of the forum) are very up there in the knowledge department and consider it high praise indeed to get a thanks and welcome from you.
Cheers
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 7:02 am
by MISSED
I still reckon the scene in Paint your wagon where Lee and the Horse were Leaning on the wall was a classic
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 7:05 am
by bimbo
great little calculator.
Just don't let Glen use it to calculate the cost of his 375 Cheytac loads, it will break it
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 8:08 am
by kickinback
bimbo wrote:great little calculator.
Just don't let Glen use it to calculate the cost of his 375 Cheytac loads, it will break it
Or him
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 8:11 am
by kickinback
uncle58 wrote:
To all the others, I've been lurking for awhile and wanted my first post to be useful and add to the general pool of knowledge, many of you I have concluded (from my reading of the forum) are very up there in the knowledge department and consider it high praise indeed to get a thanks and welcome from you.
Cheers
Forget about this lurking caper mate. Jump in and get involved.
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 11:09 am
by 220
Well done, not a criticisim but a couple of things often overlooked in reloading costs are equipment and time.
I know not everyone puts a value on time and many people myself included enjoy reloading as a stand alone hobby but equipment costs really need to be figured into it some how. I know I started adding up the cost of my reloading gear one day and stopped when I got to around $5K. Add it in to the equation and cheap reloads suddenly aren't so cheap.
Wouldn't be to hard for someone with a little talent to work it into the program.
A section for equipment cost and another for total rounds loaded could soon be made to generate a cost per round.
Same with brass, a cost for brass and then a number of times reloaded box could generate a real cost for each reload.
Obviously these costs would come down with the number of reloads produced on the equipment or with the same brass but the figures generated would be a truer reflection of the real cost associated with producing them.
Anyway welcome aboard and well done
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 11:25 am
by Camel
Welcome out of the shadows Unk, I agree that's a pretty good first post, and Im sure it will be helpful to some of the members on here.
I don't take the cost of my brass and equipment into considerations, I reckon after the first shot, every other shot with that brass is a freeby, and I only take powder, primers and projectiles into the equation, that way the missus doesn't know how much I really spend on gear. When ever a new package turns up I just tell her its bullets and stuff for work, and its a tax deduction, she likes that.
Re: Reload cost
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 8:41 pm
by uncle58
220 wrote:
Wouldn't be to hard for someone with a little talent to work it into the program.
A section for equipment cost and another for total rounds loaded could soon be made to generate a cost per round.
Same with brass, a cost for brass and then a number of times reloaded box could generate a real cost for each reload.
Obviously these costs would come down with the number of reloads produced on the equipment or with the same brass but the figures generated would be a truer reflection of the real cost associated with producing them.
Anyway welcome aboard and well done
Valid point and I don't take it as a criticism, unfortunately I don't have that talent. To do what you describe would also need to take in depreciation of the equipment as well, just like a business would. The closest idea I could come up with regarding brass cost is to either divide the cost of brass by the expected number of times you expect to reload said brass and enter that result as your brass cost, however the variable in that is; if you lose a round or two along the way due to long grass, forget to pick one up etc it throws out the calculation, or as Camel mentioned just cost the brass once and enter zero for brass cost for subsequent reloads.
cheers
Uncle