ORIGINAL: oldrookie
cayugad....thats why I looked for an alternative to powerbelts. I have been punching paper with the Hornady and Speers. Hornady are $11 and change for 50 and speer around $20. I think powerbelt is leaving a lot of money on the table being short sighted on their pricing. They are spending as much on their fancy packaging as they are in ammo.
As far as powder, I just bought a box of 777 pellets and they are $25 and some change. There are 100 in a box and I don't know how much weight that represents.
The primers....he is stealing from you. I just bought 777 primers and CCI both were $4.99 per box.
I agree on powder and bullets going "outta sight", I just bought my first pound of Accurate Arms 5744 for the Savage Smokeless ML, a nice surprise to me is the cost of shooting smokeless over BP, 42g of Smokeless has more power than a 150g load of BP, so just shooting per shot is a saving of over 2/3. The 5744 was about 20.50 for 1 pound.
Chap Gleason