Not sure how you're going to save 50 cents a round by hand loading when 223 ammo costs as little as 5 bucks a box of 20. Even the AI Outback ammo I recently bought on sale at Cabelas was under eleven a box, and shipped free, and it was tipped with 69 SMK. If you compare your handholds to the high priced spread selling for upwards of two fifty a round, you still have to include your cost to work up a load that shoots comparatively, and then defray those expenses, including range time and gas to get there in order to come up with a cost per round calculation.
That's why this is called a HOBBY, and not a business.
All I'm suggesting is that you be true to your expectations and go from there. "Saving" money is not what hobbies are about. They're about saving your sanity and maybe even giving the ol' gray matter a bit of a work out.
Just saying....
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