beaverislander
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I can only shop on-line but it looks like 45ACP is getting hard to come by too. When you do find it, what kind of prices are they getting? Just wondering if has gone crazy like 9mm.
Has 45ACP dried up?
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Finding any ammo anywhere these days is a hit-or-miss proposition, and prices are high. One fellow was positively jubilant the other day on a Facebook S&W page because he was able to buy 200 rounds of 9mm Blazer 115-gr. FMJ for "only" $100!
scattershot
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Saw some the other day for $75.00. Crazy times, glad I reload.
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beaverislander
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I hear that. I still have several hundred but all of my reloading equipment is now at my sons in another state and he doesn't have it set up yet. While not an emergency that's my weak link in the ammo department. At $75 I'll either wait, or look for a trade.
Thanks for the replies.
Rpg
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In just the last week I've run across a fair amount of 45acp ammo. One LGS has 10+ boxes of surplus GI ammo as well as several boxes of commercial 45acp. Although none of this is marketed with cool names denoting super-duper sd ammo, it's all just fine for sd or anything else you'd like to do with it. (They also had a bunch of old 190 gr hollow point Super Vel which I bought.)
Another LGS had several boxes of Remington 45acp 185gr target ammo.
There's ammo out there, just not on the internet. You have to get out of the house and on the road to find it. The big box stores aren't the place to look: small, obscure shops are the honey holes.
Another LGS had several boxes of Remington 45acp 185gr target ammo.
There's ammo out there, just not on the internet. You have to get out of the house and on the road to find it. The big box stores aren't the place to look: small, obscure shops are the honey holes.
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I've used ammoseek.com, and the cheapest I found was $0.79/round for steel case ammo. Brass started in the $0.80s/round and up. Most of this was by the case.
I looked at my usual online source, SGAmmo, and they didn't have any .45ACP in stock listed.
I looked at my usual online source, SGAmmo, and they didn't have any .45ACP in stock listed.
Just a crazy old mans wondering about which is cheaper. Pay the current market price for ammo or spend hours, days riding around burning gas and wearing out a vehicle looking for cheaper ammo. Larry
.45 ACP and .38 S&W Special were the first to finally disappear around here, but it's only been the last month or so. 9mm and .223/5.56 still show up sporadically. .40 S&W and everything else is just hit or miss . . .
Delta Rose
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It's hard to come by in these parts. I have only found FMJ range ammo once in the last couple of months and was able to buy one 200 round box of WWB FMJ for $70($0.35/round). 9mm FMJ is still available for $0.24- $0.30/round in stores every few weeks.
Most online ammo flippers in these parts are asking $0.50/round for 9mm FMJ and $0.80/round for .45 FMJ. I won't pay inflated prices....
Most online ammo flippers in these parts are asking $0.50/round for 9mm FMJ and $0.80/round for .45 FMJ. I won't pay inflated prices....
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I was at our indoor range a couple weeks back. They had just gotten 10 cases of 9mm. But they had zero .45acp. At our bit of everything store I got 2 50rd. boxes of 9mm for $12.97 each. They had no .45acp, but said a sister store 25 miles up the road did have some. Hit and miss seems to be the "new normal".
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J. R. WEEMS
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Not shortge here. I load my own, $ is about $3.50 A box.
I just dont look for ammo any more when I go out. 
Not shortge here. I load my own, $ is about $3.50 A box.
I just dont look for ammo any more when I go out. The prices are all over. Right now on ammoseek.com you can find 10mm cheaper than 9mm, 40 S&W or 45 ACP. The prices vary every day but they are all usually surprisingly close.
Do you have a phone? Spending 10 minutes on the phone will save an hour of driving around.
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If you are shooting a .45 ACP revolver, you are in luck. Go to Ammoseek and look for .45 GAP . Works fine in my S&W using moon clips, it is available from many sources, and is cheaper than ACP.
The only quality current production pistol ammo I can routinely find in quantity is current PPU and S&B, 7.62X25 Tokarev.
Funny, the store currently has a policy of one box of handgun ammo per caliber/per day.
I can buy all the Tok ammo I want..... According to them, I am the only one who has bought any Tokarev ammo since the crisis began.
Funny, the store currently has a policy of one box of handgun ammo per caliber/per day.
I can buy all the Tok ammo I want..... According to them, I am the only one who has bought any Tokarev ammo since the crisis began.
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THE PILGRIM
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Lately have seen None around here.
A while back before it went completely off the track I bought 2 Boxes of 45ACP at NRA Whittington for my SIL.
It's his Christmas Present!
A while back before it went completely off the track I bought 2 Boxes of 45ACP at NRA Whittington for my SIL.
It's his Christmas Present!
My wife sent me a FB screenshot yesterday of a local gun shop north of home that specializes in black rifles celebrating a big shipment of ammunition which they have for sale at "more reasonable" prices. I had some business in the area, and the place is sorta on my way home. "More reasonable" was $0.83 cents a round for bulk off brand 9mm FMJ. I didn't buy any, but the train of cars rolling in and out left a dust cloud in the gravel parking lot like the cavalry was coming . . .
