ammo sit gettin better?

I saw some .380 training ammo. Haven’t seen that in months!

 

Hope you are right. But I'm betting on a financial crisis way before then.

 

I'm not shooting much ,trying to save. I have 42 rds .45 acp and a 11/2 boxs .22, thats it folks. Money is getting tight.Social securty check seems to be getting smaller,not going very far.

 

I have been shooting my muzzleloaders almost exclusively. Except for a 7X57 Mauser I picked up a few months ago. I ran 10 rounds through it to see how she did. Now, back to black powder. I do still pick up some centerfire ammo if I find a good deal.

DW

 

Looks like powder is coming back.

 

Local show yesterday, Primers 20 bucks per 100, None came home with me

 

Gun shows are gouge shows these days.
I'll start going when they start being reasonable.

 

At the local Rural King, where I work, we have lots of ammo in a number of calibers, just no hunting ammo. I guess everyone around here has all the ammo they need. We have Wolf buckshot, and lots of pistol and rifle ammo (mostly FMJ).

 

Yeah I can get hunting bullets, but I can't find the specific 6.5mm bullet my rifle likes, the ones that stacks holes on top of each other at 200yd. I saw my best 6.5mm bullet sell at gouge prices for 83 cents a bullet and again for well over 60 cents a bullet, Sierra sells themfor around 22 cents a bullet. I can wait a year and get 3 or 4 times as many for that money. I got about 30 of them and plenty of my 2nd best bullet that shoots sub 1 inch groups at 200 yards. The sub 1 inch @ 200 bullet goes for around 50 to 60 cents each if I can find them, normally they're about 40 cents each.
For 30-30 a year ago I was looking at paying up 60 to 80 cents per hornady ftx bullet if I could find them. Now they're on sale at midway for 34 cents each. Luckily I didn't pay more than about 44 cents each for what I have. I'll stack several hundred next midway order and I'll sell some next time when I can double or triple my money.

 

Which 6.5 bullet is that, OP? You'd be surprised what Crafty has on his shelf that might be looking for a new home.

 

Where did I read in this tread? Where someone used the term ''gouger''? Nah,to early in the am...........

 

Neighbor is gayee for the 6.5 him
Likes SST's 123 gr? and 143 gr

 

My gun doesn't like any 120 or 123gr lead bullet. I tried loaded them over all kinds of different powder charges with W748, W760 and N555.
I am going to give 122gr lead free a chance, I bought a box of Lehigh hollow points, they're as long as 140gr lead bullets. I loaded up about 30 with W760 and N555 and see what they do. They're expensive but they stay in stock.
Also bought a box of 140gr SST bullets and loaded them up to try.
I need 130gr Sierra gamechanger bullets those consistently stack holes on top of each other every time I go shooting.
The other good one is hornady eld-x 143gr, they are a little hard to find.
I think I lucked out I got a gun that shoots a cheap hunting bullet really well.

 

Last week Academy had some ridiculously over priced .22 LR that I did not buy. Crap M193 ball was 12.00+ so I bought some Hornady 77 gr for 3.00 more and called it good. I will check again tomorrow as ChinaMart gets ammo in on Tues night and I sometimes get decent prices.
jim

 

Prices are stupid and for some cartridges you need to be patient. I didn't buy my last two rifles until I had ammo in hand, but boy was it dear! I'll patiently wait for bullets, powder, and primers to become more available and prices to normalize before I make any more purchases.

 

Looking a little better around here. Academy seems to always have 223/5.56 and 9mm but not much of any hunting calibers.

 

I'm not waiting. I have about 3,800ish 223 at some stage of being reloaded.

 

The local Rural King got in a pallet of ammo last week, usually we get lots of .22 LR, 9mm, .223/5.56, .308/7.62x51, 7.62x39, 7.62x54R, and Buckshot, but this time we also got .38 Special, .25 Auto, .32 Auto, .380 Auto, .357 Mag., hunting rounds in .30-06 and .308 (right after deer season ends) and lots of Birdshot! .45 Auto and .40 S&W are usually on the shelves, too! Hopefully the ammo makers can get caught up this summer.

 

Over the weekend BigBox store had a lot of off brand stuff but there was:
308, 223, 38 special, 40, 45, 9mm, 22, 7.62x39 and 380 on the shelf.
But prices seemed to be a several bucks higher per box. Lower than pandemic prices but not near pre-pandemic and this stuff isn't winchester remington cci brand.