I do it just for the fun of it, to be honest unless you’re like us and have the equipment to play with and don’t mind spending some time then it isn’t worth the effort for the few bucks we save. I turned my bullets because the wasn’t anything I could find for that caliber, and it only took me about 1/2 hour to draw it, program it, I had all the tools set up already so I was dropping off a bullet every 18 seconds or so.
Was thinking it’d be pretty easy to grind a carbide tool to the correct nose profile, use the cams from a bushing job, and let it run for a while. Could even grind a radius on the shoulder of the cutoff tool for that “boat-tail” profile.