Originally Posted by
gimp
I paid from memory 61 cents per round for the steel cased hornady, and try find any quantity of .223 brass for less than about 25 cents per case (if you can I'll buy 1000)
cheapest cases ~25c cheapest projectile ~20-25c. The absolute cheapest projectile I've found is 18 cents per, for Barnaul projectiles. Even the "cheap" Nosler 55gr SP is ~$130/500 = 26 cents per, Hornady 55sp are all ~25c.
You can't get it cheaper than just buying the steel cased hornady, not to a degree that it's worth the mucking around. Of course the steel cased hornady doesn't exist anymore.
If we could get bulk cheap projectiles and bulk once fired .mil brass it would be a different story.