9mm prices are coming down

[Wdbutcher97]

I wish I had an academy or Cabelas near me, but I don't. My primary ammo source was Walmart but they stopped selling handgun ammo. My local guy is very expensive. $17 a box of range 9MM.

Cabela's/Bass Pro have free shipping on orders over $50. I've had good luck with their "Herters" brand ammo. I believe it being made by Winchester. It would be the same as Winchester white box.

 

[glenwolde]

Cabela's/Bass Pro have free shipping on orders over $50. I've had good luck with their "Herters" brand ammo. I believe it being made by Winchester. It would be the same as Winchester white box.

I know the Herters .45 ACP I have is headstamped "WIN". Last time I bought it (a year ago?) it was $23.

 

[Jim2527]

12.99/50 Magtech yesterday
11.99/50 Remington today

 

[alwslate]

12.99/50 Magtech yesterday
11.99/50 Remington today

Cheap for a reason. Two of the worst of the underloaded 9mm junk ammo on the market these days.

 

[rwsmith]

I can't say that I LIKE this.......

23 cents a round doesn't sound half bad when primers are going for 7-8 cents each, powder is $50-$60 a pound and bullets are 8-10 cents apiece.

At today's prices it will cost you somewhere around 20 cents per round to reload 9mm (even assuming free once-fired brass).

For those who paid a lot less for their stock of reloading supplies in years past, it is still possible to reload 9mm for under 10 cents a round.

But there is still the question of how to replace those cheap reloading components from years past if you use them up?

These days it doesn't look like that is going to be possible any time in the foreseeable future.

.... but I'd say it's a good description of the situation.

 

[rosewood]

My local guy is still charging $17 for a fifty round box. I reload 9MM and haven't bought a box in years, but primers are harder to get than ammo delivered to my door. I have probably 1500 cases primed and maybe 3000 primers on top of that, but I don't want to load them while I might not be able to replace them. At least not easily or cheaply be able to get them.

Since 9mm is the least expensive of the centerfire rounds I shoot and primers are dang near unobtanium, I have decided to not load range 9mm ammo and only buy factory for now. Even though, I can load just a little bit cheaper than factory. I am saving my primers for the more expensive factory ammo. One for example recently is the 38 special.

Rosewood

 

[rosewood]

I always wondered about that "crimp line" around the body of the brass used for wadcutter loads.
The idea that it is to prevent seating the bullet too deep makes sense - until you stop and consider the fact that wadcutter bullets are already being pushed down into the case until the nose of the bullet is more or less flush with the case mouth anyway.
How could you accidentally push them any further into the case with a seating die? When you think about it, once the die contacts the case mouth, that is pretty much the limit of how far you can possibly seat them - isn't it?

I tend to agree. Even at that, if you were loading a longer bullet, that crimp line ain't gonna stop that press from seating past it. I do wonder if maybe the crimp line was originally just to identify the different case. I have read the wad cutter cases are straighter inside instead of being tapered like other brass??

Rosewood

 

[stansdds]

A deep cannelure in a case can help prevent bullet setback. I think the only reason 38 Special target wadcutter cases had cannelures was to provide a visual identification of the case being designed for a flush seated wadcutter bullet. 38 Special wadcutter cases often had long, thin, straight walls, the thin wall being much longer than what was normally used for standard pressure or +P 38 Special loads.

 

[Jim2527]

Cheap for a reason. Two of the worst of the underloaded 9mm junk ammo on the market these days.

And? Regardless, it's a lot less than it was.

I'm just a working guy….it must be nice to shot the best of the best for plinking.

 

[LVSteve]

And? Regardless, it's a lot less than it was.

I'm just a working guy….it must be nice to shot the best of the best for plinking.

And…it often won't cycle in a properly sprung pistol and according to some has poor accuracy. Go check out GBguns on YouTube and his tests of range ammo. So far the most accurate in his test pistol is Tulammo, the stuff that everybody derided for being Russian.

 

[Borderboss]

12.99/50 Magtech yesterday
11.99/50 Remington today

I use Remington green box all the time through every 9mm I have with never a problem. I've never used Magtech.

Just got PMC Bronze for under 12 bucks/50. Prices are definitely coming down.

 

[BC38]

And…it often won't cycle in a properly sprung pistol and according to some has poor accuracy. Go check out GBguns on YouTube and his tests of range ammo. So far the most accurate in his test pistol is Tulammo, the stuff that everybody derided for being Russian.

Personally, I never had a problem with Tulammo being Russian, I just don't buy steel cased ammo for any calibers I reload. The extra couple of cents per round for the brass makes more sense for me.

I'm one of the fortunate ones who laid in pretty much a lifetime supply of reloading components at reasonable prices in years gone by. I can reload anything but rifle ammo for 10-15 cents apiece. Rifle ammo is more like 25-30 cents each.

I have enough that unless I get heavily into competition shooting there will still be plenty left for my heirs to sell off.