Price of ammo

[pmanton]

It's a good thing these were on sale. A guy couldn't hardly afford to shoot at the original price.

 

[pasound]

I was at the local Cabelas today. Ammo shelves were decently stocked, but some things seemed high. So I stopped at the Bridgeport Equipment store on the way home. Prices were much more reasonable, other than $4.99 for a box of 50 .22LR. Almost every caliber I've ever seen, including a large amount of Russian-made in the metric calibers, and .308 and .223. They were the cheapest on their shelves, priced not much higher than two years ago.

 

[Kid Shileen]

Until the last year is so ammo prices have been crazy low. I remember in the 1980's a box of 45 acp Fmj being about $25.00. Try that when your making $4.00 an hour

 

[Nevada Ed]

Until the last year is so ammo prices have been crazy low. I remember in the 1980's a box of 45 acp Fmj being about $25.00. Try that when your making $4.00 an hour

Back then.. that "Box" was a case..........right?

12 Ga. came at 500 a case, back then, not like today at 250 a "Flat".

Same with pistol ammo that had 10 boxs of ammo to a "Box".....
if I am correct.

 

[Kid Shileen]

Back then.. that "Box" was a case..........right?

12 Ga. came at 500 a case, back then, not like today at 250 a "Flat".

Same with pistol ammo that had 10 boxs of ammo to a "Box".....
if I am correct.

Nope box of 50 rounds.

 

[Rudi]

Yes, way back when. I remember having 200 rds of .38 spl. and thinking I had an ammo dump.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Just the other day I shot some Aluminum case 9mm Blazer that I've had for a while.
A price tag said $9.99.

 

[ruger 22]

If you are going back a bit I started shooting trap in 1966 and bought a case of AA trap loads for $50.00. (500 shells in the case). Then the shop would take back my empties for 2 cents each so the bottom line was $40.00 for 20 boxes of shells. I did eventually start handloading since one could load a box of 25 for 75 cents in those days. Of course I was making the big salary of almost $3.00 per hour and shotgun shooting was considered very costly. 44 Specials and 357 cost $6.00 for a box of 50 and 22lr was $8.00 a brick.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Just the other day I shot some Aluminum case 9mm Blazer that I've had for a while.
A price tag said $9.99.

Wow..........
that one hurt.

You really know how to bring tears to a grown man's eyes.

 

[kaaskop49]

Enough strolling down Memory Lane! My range/LGS has 9mm 115gr Turkish ball for $425/1000 rounds. Before I passed on it, the counter guy offered to carry it out to my car for me. I asked if the $ would go down to $200 if I carried it myself... I don't mind waiting for the $ to drop: IMO, shooting too many 9mm pistols causes Communism...

Kaaskop49
Shield $5103

 

[glenwolde]

Until the last year is so ammo prices have been crazy low. I remember in the 1980's a box of 45 acp Fmj being about $25.00. Try that when your making $4.00 an hour

Can't say I can remember them being that high but I'm not saying they weren't. That'd be about $64 in today's money. But I didn't shoot .45. That may have been why! Really the only new American-made .45's at the time were the Colt 1911's. It was nowhere near as popular then as today.

The .38 Special was the 9mm of it's day. I do remember $8.00-$9.00 a box for .38's. That would be like $20.00+ today.

The range I shot at sold .38 reloads for $5.00 a box net of returned brass. They were loaded with a swaged lead bullet and not very good. I figured out pretty fast that a basic reloading setup would pay for itself pretty quick. Once I got that going I found out how good your own reloaded ammo can be.

 

[kbm6893]

Up until this current drought, people, many of them on this forum, said it was a waste of time to reload 9MM. As that is my main range caliber and carry piece, I load more of that that anything else. I wish I had stocked up more on components but I'm good for several thousand more rounds with what I have.

A friend of mine at work told me he got a great deal on 9MM yesterday at his local shop. $18.96 a box of 50 rounds. Over $20 with tax. I know prices are going to come down and they won't be as good as before the pandemic for a very long time, if ever again, but if more than $20 a box of 50 rounds is going to be considered a good price than I think we're all in trouble.

 

[stansdds]

Until the last year is so ammo prices have been crazy low. I remember in the 1980's a box of 45 acp Fmj being about $25.00. Try that when your making $4.00 an hour

I remember those days too. That was the driving factor in me learning to reload ammo. Seems to me it was around $20 for a 50 round box of Remington or Federal 125 grain JHP 357 Magnum. Federal's then new 45 ACP 230 grain Hydra-Shok JHP was $17 for a box of 20. I still have some of this old ammo.


I think imported ammo really put pressure on domestic manufacturers and retailers to reduce the cost of ammo. It is during ammo shortages that we see spikes that actually put prices to where they would be if there had not been additional supply from overseas.

 

[jake1945]

If you think the price of ammo (and firearms) are high now; wait till the infrastructure bill passes into law. There is a provision in it to apply high taxes on firearm and ammo sales!

 

[Fuch]

ammunition prices

hello everyone , about of the ammunition price in USA , i've got seeing a on youtube a vidéo Miami shot show and i've constate as the price of theys as more expensive as in my country the Belgium , for example : for 100 x 223 rem S&B : 40€ ( 47$) , for 1000 Winch 9 luger 124g: 165€(196$) , may be te price is more low in the guns stores ?

 

[Fuch]

sorry

sorry for this traduction mistake : constate = noted

 

[jc2721]

I know I started reloading in the early 80's when I couldn't afford $15 for a box of PMC .357 magnum for my Colt Python and S&W 66. I was making $2.40 an hour working retail in Waikiki.

It's funny how I always had money in my pocket to buy guns but factory ammo was "too expensive."