Yeah, Nichols department store is the only place I can get them. I go to the pawn shops and they never have any. The going price around here is $20.00 + tax for a box of twenty.
A Lee-Enfield and it's shoots straighter than ****. I love it.
Reloading is the way to go with expensive ammo. A single stage press is fine for low volume shooting. I use a progressive Dillon RL550B to make large volumes of 38SPL for plinking at the range. The bigger, more expensive rounds like 500 S&W and 45-70 are built on an RCBS Rock Chucker single stage press. I can build 4 to 5 boxes of ammo for the cost of one factory loaded box. A box of 50 44 mag can be reloaded for about $6.50 or purchased for $20. You have to reload about 30 boxes to break even on the initial cost of the press/dies/scale/calipers/load book.
Adding a new caliber to the Dillon 550 will set you back about $80 for dies, conversion kit and a dedicated block to hold the new dies in the 550. A new caliber on the single stage press requires a shell holder ($6.00) and dies ($30).