Depends on your definition of every now and then. If you do your research and find prices of supplies plug them into this websihttp://10xshooters.com/calculators/ShotshellReloadingCost/te and see if its cost effective.

if it is less than 500 rounds a year i wouldnt mess with it. but i do always save my hulls in case i ever start.

I don't agree with you guys on cheap shot shells right now. You can buy stuff for $5-$6 a box. First of all this is not cheap, especially for what you get. If you don't believe me cut one of these "Dove" loads open and you will find misshapen shot and quite often fiber wads with a poly wrapper around the shot instead of a plastic wad. Better loads are $7 to $10 dollars per box. Cetainly not cheap...

A person can reload high quality shotshells for about the same price or slightly cheaper than you would pay for promotional "dove" or cheap target loads. A Mec jr. loader is a good investment. I bought one used in 1980 and I still use it. If you don't want to spend that much the Lee Load All Shotshell Reloader can be had for about $45.(Cablelas) These loaders work surprisingly well and last for years. I started reloading shot shells for a 16 GA shotgun in 1978 with one of these, it still works!

Load data is readily available on the web from Alliant and Hodgedon. Shot is getting cheaper and 12 GA hulls are also cheap. I like the Remington STS hulls, the AA HS is OK but not quite as good as the old AA (my opinion)

Beekeeper is right, you can turn out high quality loads for the price of "dove loads" at Wally World. However that is not what the question is, its is it worth it to reload if I shoot "every now and then" and I will go with another post, if you shoot less than 500 rounds a year then no its not worth it to save money. However if you want to do it as a hobby or something you are trying to get into so that you can START shooting more for cheap then by all means. I reload cause I shoot a 10gauge for ducks and steel at 25 dollars a box will break you!

Depends. If you plan on experimenting, or doing more shooting, like 4 boxes a week, then reloading is an option. If you shoot 4 boxes a year, then just buying them when they go on sale would be sufficient.

I usually wait for Dicks Sporting Goods to have their ammo sales, just watch the shell quantity. Remington put out a lot of boxes of shells, $1.97 on sale per box, but there were only 20 shells in the box, not the standard 25. So you needed to buy 5 boxes to get 100 rounds where if you spent the $5.00 a box you needed to buy 4 boxes for 100 rounds.

Ask at your local gun club if anyone reloads, I did and 2 older gentlemen invited me over to their reloading benches, let me use their equipment, and as long as I brought over my own supplies (powder, cases, shot, wads, and primers) I could use their equipment anytime, just had to give them a call to see if they were around. After awhile, I ended up buying one of the presses from one of them when they got out of the reloading.

I think overall it has to do with the volume you shoot, if you burn 250 rounds at the range per weekend, reloading is the way to go, if you go out and shoot 25-50 rounds cheaper to buy I don't shoot as much trap as I used to, but I still have so many components around I just keep reloading, but only 1oz target loads specialty loads like pheasant, or handicaps I buy. Bottom line you have to run through a whole lot of shells to make reloading pay back when, or now. But like the others said do the math and see if it's right for you

depends on now and then. some of my friends shoot now and then and go through maby a box on an outing which happens every month or so. i shoot every now and then sometimes(when im not shooting often) which means about 100+ shells a week. if im shooting often then 200-300 a week. you could say im addicted to my mossberg 500. i reload, id be stupid not to, prices in my area are around 9-11 bucks a box for craptastic walyworld shells. and 25-30 for anything that id actually shoot in my gun.

I dont think so.

I recommend not to do it!!!