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Is it just my imagination, or is brass for reloading cheaper and more plentiful now than it ever has been?
When I started reloading 30 years ago, I remember things like powder, primers, and bullets being about half the cost they are now, which is about right considering inflation. I also remember buying 9mm brass for $5/100. Nowadays you can't hardly give away 9mm brass, and you can easily buy it for scrap price. I saw someone at a gun show last week with huge bags of 9mm and 5.56 brass on their table, asking less than scrap price and not selling. I expect this is mostly due to the fact that ammo is relatively cheap right now, so less demand for brass, and the fact that lots of people shoot a lot of those common calibers.
Something else that is relatively cheap nowadays is reloading dies and tools. Looking through old catalogs from the 60's and 70's, and calculating for inflation, a lot of this stuff was expensive back then. Maybe now is the good old days.
When I started reloading 30 years ago, I remember things like powder, primers, and bullets being about half the cost they are now, which is about right considering inflation. I also remember buying 9mm brass for $5/100. Nowadays you can't hardly give away 9mm brass, and you can easily buy it for scrap price. I saw someone at a gun show last week with huge bags of 9mm and 5.56 brass on their table, asking less than scrap price and not selling. I expect this is mostly due to the fact that ammo is relatively cheap right now, so less demand for brass, and the fact that lots of people shoot a lot of those common calibers.
Something else that is relatively cheap nowadays is reloading dies and tools. Looking through old catalogs from the 60's and 70's, and calculating for inflation, a lot of this stuff was expensive back then. Maybe now is the good old days.