Angered_Kabar
Well-Known
The overall goal of it is to just plug in some data in a dozen or so fields and it figures out how many rounds you'll have to load to pay off your reloading equipment compared to just shooting factory ammo. It also shows how much all those components will cost to load that much ammo. If all the bugs get worked out this could be a great tool to quickly show reloading newcomers if there is a cost benefit to reloading for their needs. It could also help out reloading veterans who wish to upgrade or replace their equipment.
Some other features:
Cost per round (new brass, "free" brass, primed brass)
Average cost per round (expected case life, and all the types of brass above)
Another sheet that's designed for shotshell reloading
I hope it's pretty intuitive. Just fill in the green areas with the data you found when researching a specific load (you are going to need to find out the powder charge weight), and the blue areas are used as a label, and to ask you if the brass is already primed. The yellow area gives you the bottom line once everything is filled in, a negative number would mean you're losing money by reloading (crazy to think, huh? I just used my spreadsheet and found out I can buy shotgun slugs cheaper than I can reload them if I buy components from this one place).
Here's the link, it's on google docs.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak5nYZxyK8Z6dGhKb21xR0dycE9NS2hfMTFLZkRwY3c&hl=en_US#gid=0
If you guys notice any problems or know of a way I can improve this, please let me know and I'll see about making this better.
Some other features:
Cost per round (new brass, "free" brass, primed brass)
Average cost per round (expected case life, and all the types of brass above)
Another sheet that's designed for shotshell reloading
I hope it's pretty intuitive. Just fill in the green areas with the data you found when researching a specific load (you are going to need to find out the powder charge weight), and the blue areas are used as a label, and to ask you if the brass is already primed. The yellow area gives you the bottom line once everything is filled in, a negative number would mean you're losing money by reloading (crazy to think, huh? I just used my spreadsheet and found out I can buy shotgun slugs cheaper than I can reload them if I buy components from this one place).
Here's the link, it's on google docs.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak5nYZxyK8Z6dGhKb21xR0dycE9NS2hfMTFLZkRwY3c&hl=en_US#gid=0
If you guys notice any problems or know of a way I can improve this, please let me know and I'll see about making this better.