Yep. Learning which components are best. Tweaking. All part of the game. End result: better than factory performance at way less cost.
Did some more calcs: for 30-06 shooting a 165 grain PSP, the cost is about $0.18 for primer and powder and another $0.18 for the bullet (more nowadays, about 25 cents per) = $0.36 per round/$7.20 a box.
Here's a real savings - Hornady sells .416 Rigby cartridges for something over $4 per round. They can be handloaded to the same specs for less than $1 per round.
I do not include the cost of brass (I haven't bought brass in a looong time) in any of these calculations - except for the Rigby and that is amortized over six firings.
Pete