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Posted: 10/25/2010 8:21:16 AM EDT
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Quick question for the hive. I happened on a post saying that such and such was a good buy for some ammo. I had some time so I looked and they are advertising 9mm Wolf ammo for 42¢ per round ($21 per box). I haven't bought any commercial ammo in some 8 years so I know I'm totally out of touch and I don't shoot 9mm at all so I'm clueless on current prices. That seems awfully high for 9mm to me but what say you? Is $21 per box for Wolf brass 147grn JHP 9mm a good, fair, or high price for 9mm these days? |
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Wow, 62 grain .223 for 18 cents a round... too bad they're steel-cased... if they were brass I'd be pulling out the credit card... |
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Quoted: At the funshow last weekend 9mm FMJ was $11 to $13 per 50 rd box depending on brand. Brass cased brands you have heard of before. I doubt commercial ammo will ever get back down to the cost of reloading for most calibers. I was shooting 230grain Hornady XTP's with VIHT N340 powder at an IPSC class the other week, everyone around me was shooting cheap commercial ball ammo. One of them said I was crazy for shooting such expensive bullets. I asked him how much he paid per round for his Remington UMC (it was 45ACP, he said 33 or 34 cents). I told him I had reloaded all the XTP's I was shooting for 24 cents per round. I was only using XTP's because I was out of round nose FMJ's, and couldn't find them at a cheap enough price over the counter to make financial sense on short notice). When he found out my premium loads cost less than his bulk plinkers, his face was priceless:  I decided not to tell him that I usually shoot cast lead bullets, for around 8 cents each (and that's higher than it should be because I'm not so great at scrounging for cheap lead...) |
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Prvi Partizan 147 gr. HP $13 per 50 at AIM. $21 for a box of 9mm Wolf is a ripoff,you can buy Fed,CCI for less than $10 at Wally World they also carry the Tula steel case 9mm for about the same price.
http://www.aimsurplus.com/catalog.aspx?groupid=46 |
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Yep and ammoengine or some such. Gives you the best prices. |
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Is that Wolf 50 or 100 per box? I am guessing that is $21 per hundred, not 50. Never had any luck with Wolf HG ammo, wildly inaccurate, except Gold which is brass and made by Privi. ETA: 42 cents for 9MM is insane IMO, but then again I don't own or shoot a 9MM. Hell You can get top shelf .45 for that kinda money. |
| I've had very good results with the Wolf 115 gr. 9mm ammo out of my Ruger BlackHawk 357 using the 9mm conversion cylinder,although it was accurate it's pretty dirty stuff. I bought a few hundred rds. of the stuff back when it was under $7 per box as SHTF ammo mainly. |
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Quick question for the hive. I happened on a post saying that such and such was a good buy for some ammo. I had some time so I looked and they are advertising 9mm Wolf ammo for 42¢ per round ($21 per box). I haven't bought any commercial ammo in some 8 years so I know I'm totally out of touch and I don't shoot 9mm at all so I'm clueless on current prices. That seems awfully high for 9mm to me but what say you? Is $21 per box for Wolf brass 147grn JHP 9mm a good, fair, or high price for 9mm these days? I bought .45 ACP bulk. Bullets $32.00 per 1k, Primers $15.60, Powder $10.50 per pound. With the use on the brass. $3.25 per 50 round box. I have enough stuff to load over 5,500 rounds. I just got a .380 auto pistol and a box of federal .380 fmj 50 per box for $15.99 that's $ 0.34 per round. Yep! That's sticker shock. Mike |
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