lets figure it up. i'm curious now, prices are from Sportsman Warehouse.
bullets $30/100 which is .30 each
powder $24/pound
primers $28/1000 which is .028 each
for 30-06, the max powder load is (i think) 58 grains? there is 7000 grains in one pound, so that's 118 bullets/pound of powder... so that's 20 cents of powder per bullet
so let's add that up! lol...
.20+.30+.028= .528 a round. so say 53 cents a round
COMPARED TO
$33 a box preloaded A-max (20 rounds) which is $1.65 a round
of course we are leaving out brass and time here.... but we buy greek m2 ball 30-06 military rounds for our m1 garand, so we have brass already, and time....well, its time i'd usually be just browsing TRS so
i'll take it. i can have 3 rounds to a preloaded 1 round.
edit: even if you add in the brass (like you bought more brass each time) its $25 for 50 rounds.. so that's .02 each, which is still only 55 cents a round.