Savings in reloading shells is not what it use to be. There are plug in apps. that will give you to the penny cost based on cost of each inputs to make a shell. Search the Trapshooters.com version and play with the numbers. For those of us still living in the past and using components purchased years ago we still save a bundle. I am using $11.00 shot not the 40 dollar stuff you have to buy today. My primers are 15 not 40. Powder is running out so instead of 12-15 dollars a pound it now bumps 20-25 per pound. My current cost is $3.84 per box of 12's less for the smaller shells. But if I had to buy new stuff it goes up to $5.49 a box. Still a lot cheaper than factory but not the sub three dollars stuff I loaded for decades.
I reload to get pressure down to desired level or for a specific shot size and payload combo or even to get velocity that I need for a gun to be fun to shoot. Any cost savings are soon eaten up in increased shooting. Unless you have a major supplier or a club that can supply what you need at reasonable cost reloading is just a labor of love these days. But if you save ten percent you could always increase you shooting level to get rid of the extra savings.
