Indeed expensive.... I reload albeit still expensive.
Paid 3800$ in 89 for a used factory demo with swarovski glass.
I was EOD in the service an we used em for small munitions disruption aka smud . I wanted one of my own as well as the issued. Very good rigs....
My Father was in the 208th Engineers Combat Battalion in WWII.
Another child of a member sent me the official U.S. Army history of the Battalion.
There was one thing which struck me as strange to the point of being hard to believe. When clearing mines, they said they once pulled 18 mines out of a single six foot by six foot plot.
Hard to believe they could even have put that many in so small a place.