Reloading Cost Calculator

[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

[mick_762]

Cheers Uncle. always good to find an easier way to work out the price Vs Factory ammo.

Mick

[spinna]

Very cool Uncle58
Just played around with it for a while, and Bookmarked it (Thumbs up smiley)
Thanks
spinna

[kickinback]

Thanks bloke

[frakka]

Welcome from me too Uncle58, don't see too many references to Lee Marvin around these days.

[MISSED]

Thank you and Welcome

What a terrific first post (Thumbs up emicon)

[Flip]

Howdy, Welcome and Thanks very much

very informative

Flip

[uncle58]

Thanks guys glad it will be of some use.
Spinna

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and Bookmarked it

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

[MISSED]

I still reckon the scene in Paint your wagon where Lee and the Horse were Leaning on the wall was a classic

[bimbo]

great little calculator.
Just don't let Glen use it to calculate the cost of his 375 Cheytac loads, it will break it

[kickinback]

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

[kickinback]

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.

[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

[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.

[uncle58]

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