Ammo

[uncle Alan]

Regional gun show April 11 & 12th ;

Ammo in very short supply . The .223 went from $ 400 a can to $ 500. .32 & .380 up from around $20 to $35 & I bought 1 box of .32 at yesterday's flea market from a man that hadn't marked up but once & paid only $ 25,considering myself fortunate.

Uncle [set until 2012 ? ] Alan

 

[Charlie Moore]

If you can find any .380, consider yourself lucky.

 

[Kohai999]

1. I have found online ammo to be the least expensive, and what I want. Example....I ONLY shoot 168 grain boattail Black Hills match moly coat in my M1A....which I NEVER see at the local gunshow....Cabela's had it, but not in stock....the price was around $30.00 a box, delivered, which is about average.

2. We are used to getting ammo immediately when we want it...that is not the reality right now....it took my backorder about 3 weeks to ship, that is the .308 from Cabela's AND .380 Corbon DPX from Midway...place your order and wait.

3. Work the specials, and prices are not jacked up too much.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

 

[MutedRaccoon]

Try buying .338 if you want to talk about pain, 5-8$ per round...Thats if you can find it.

On average your looking at 110$ per box of 20 rounds.

 

[Gov't Mule]

Try buying .338 if you want to talk about pain, 5-8$ per round...Thats if you can find it.

On average your looking at 110$ per box of 20 rounds.

Win Mag or Lapua? Regardless of which type, if I had a rifle chambered in that caliber I would be reloading it. Not that brass and bullets are cheap...

 

[UffDa]

I was at Wally World Wednesday. Their handgun ammo shelves are empty and there isn't much on the rifle ammo shelves. They do have a lot shotgun shells though. I think the days of cheap are past unless you shoot 7.62x54R

Ammoman is out of almost everything that folks want.

 

[MutedRaccoon]

Win Mag or Lapua? Regardless of which type, if I had a rifle chambered in that caliber I would be reloading it. Not that brass and bullets are cheap...

Lapua.

I would do reloads but I don't have the space/room for the setup, so I improvise by sending my spent brass to a fellow .338 shooter who does do reloads and he uses it and sends me some discounted ammo. Nothing extreme but I get away with $3.50-$4.00 a round that way...it still hurts the pocketbook. Price is high as reloading materials are hard to come by thesedays as well.

However there still are times that I have to purchase a couple of boxes and thats when the real pain starts.

 

[Gov't Mule]

With the price of ammo what it is I have decided it's time for a 22. If suppressors are legal where you live this looks like a lot of fun. CZ 452 American 16. Factory threaded bbl.

 

[MutedRaccoon]

With the price of ammo what it is I have decided it's time for a 22. If suppressors are legal where you live this looks like a lot of fun. CZ 452 American 16. Factory threaded bbl.

CZs period are a ton of fun, I have a CZ75 that I love and wouldn't trade for any other 9mm out there. If you get a CZ your going to get a good gun.

 

[UffDa]

Lapua.

I would do reloads but I don't have the space/room for the setup, so I improvise by sending my spent brass to a fellow .338 shooter who does do reloads and he uses it and sends me some discounted ammo. Nothing extreme but I get away with $3.50-$4.00 a round that way...it still hurts the pocketbook. Price is high as reloading materials are hard to come by thesedays as well.

However there still are times that I have to purchase a couple of boxes and thats when the real pain starts.

You already have the brass. All you need are bullets, powder and primers. Good bullets will run $27 to $50 per 100. Primers $2 or $3 per 100. Powder will cost about $25 to $30 per hundred. That works out to less then $1 per round even if you use expensive bullets.

For about $100 you could set up for reloading with a Lee hand press. I have seen a kit for about $35-$40. A set of dies would cost about another $40 and a powder scale can be had pretty cheap. It wouldn't be very fast, but you could probably load a box or two in an hour.

I have one that I used to load .45-70 and it works very well. A complete kit would fit in a shoe box.

 

[SIFU1A]

Try buying .338 if you want to talk about pain, 5-8$ per round...Thats if you can find it.

On average your looking at 110$ per box of 20 rounds.

my bud shoots a .340 weatherby and the ammo for it is really high, as it is for all weatherbys, he now reloads for it.

 

[Old CW4]

You can mount an entire reloading setup on a wide plank or equivalent made from a couple of foot or so wide strips of 3/4 or 1 inch plywood glued/screwed together. Then you C clamp the 'plank' on a kitchen, dining room, or picnic table and load away. The whole plank thing will store in the back or side end of a closet when you're done. I used to load that way when I was in the Army and living in various Govt family quarters where space was at a premium.

 

[MutedRaccoon]

You already have the brass. All you need are bullets, powder and primers. Good bullets will run $27 to $50 per 100. Primers $2 or $3 per 100. Powder will cost about $25 to $30 per hundred. That works out to less then $1 per round even if you use expensive bullets.

For about $100 you could set up for reloading with a Lee hand press. I have seen a kit for about $35-$40. A set of dies would cost about another $40 and a powder scale can be had pretty cheap. It wouldn't be very fast, but you could probably load a box or two in an hour.

I have one that I used to load .45-70 and it works very well. A complete kit would fit in a shoe box.

I'm familiar with the reloading setup, but as said I don't have the room for it. Also storage of reloading materials is another issue for me.

I've gone over the idea of doing some reloading by hand as it would be excellent for my pocketbook, but the logistics of it don't work for me at present time. So I send my spent brass out both .308 and .338 and get fresh stuff in its the only way that works for me at present.

 

[zenheretic]

I knew an electrician who would get on jobs in other towns for months at a time. So each night, he would spend his free time handloading in his motel room. A productive way to spend his time, to be sure.

 

[Sid Post]

Ammo hoarding should come to and end, then prices will come down. As long as people buy anything and everything on the ammo shelf, ammo will continue to get marked up and short supply will continue to feed shortage fears.

Reloading certainly helps cut the cost of shooting but, those 338's are pricey anyway you cut it.

 

[MutedRaccoon]

Ammo hoarding should come to and end, then prices will come down. As long as people buy anything and everything on the ammo shelf, ammo will continue to get marked up and short supply will continue to feed shortage fears.

Reloading certainly helps cut the cost of shooting but, those 338's are pricey anyway you cut it.

Yep but it has its perks...Those puppies have got some serious ZING to them even after a great deal of distance. Not to mention that the rifle is about half the weight of a .50 so its always entertaining to mess with those guys about how light my bag is...

I do "hoard" but its due to different reasons then what others have, mainly I need a steady stash to use for frequent shooting drills. I do tend to hoard around 500 (.45), 500 (9mm) 200 (.308) and 100 (.338) at any give time but thats about my monthly shooting total so I just chip away at it all month.

 

[Sid Post]

By horading, I don't include a monthly allotment of ammo. Hoarding is when two guys walk up to the Wal-Mart sporting goods counter and each buy over $3K of ammo each leaving nothing for anyone else - No 9mm, 40S&W, 45ACP, .223, .308, ....