We did a cost analysis on whether to reload or buy and it was a wash.
The ammo I use in my hunting rifle costs almost $3 a round to buy.
I can reload it for $ 2.08 cents a round using new brass. Every time I resize and use that brass again for reloading each round cost me .80 cents.
Reloading for my pistols is 1/3 the cost of purchasing ammo.
And I get much more accurate ammo to boot. But I shoot a lot as I have a range on my property.
YMMV
I reload but it’s hard to pass up the Russian steel case. 1000 rds cost little more than you can buy components for, at least in .223 or 7.62x39.
If you have you brass, you can reload 30-30 ammo for about $.15 per round. You cannot buy the cheapest new loads anywhere near that. 30-06 is not much higher.
That is assuming gas checked cast lead bullets.
Pretty cheap plinking.
Using 170 gr. cast lead bullet with gas check can give you just about factory load velocity without leading the barrel.