ORIGINAL: Pavomesa

Head, sure you can save money if you only shoot the same amount of bullets as you did before reloading. What I'm telling you is you won't do that. Unless you are a very different sort of fellow than most gun nuts, you will shoot up your "shooting budget" one way or another. The guy who buys his shells doesn't get much ammo in return. The fellow who reloads gets to play a lot longer and have more fun doing it.

And there are other advantages that I won't elaborate on here.