I cast my own bulelts and reload those for plinking and target shooting in nearly all of my rifles. Its really cheap at a few cents per round- about 2.5 cents for the primer and a few cents for the powder, the brass lasts forever. I don't even blink at the thought of loading up 300-400 rounds of 30-06 at a time and shooting them all in one day. Really cheap, though if the amount of time involved with casting, culling, and sizing the bullets were factored in, not so cheap.