wild cat mccane
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Since 9mm is the most basic auto...
just passing it on. Summer is always a downtime for ammo.
It's coming.
just passing it on. Summer is always a downtime for ammo.
It's coming.
Bought a case of 9mm for $8 a box today
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Not to seem disingenuous, but what are you passing along exactly? There are no details about the ammunition itself or where you purchased the ammunition. I guess you’re passing along the fact that you were able to make what seems like a very good purchase in the current market. Okay, congratulations.
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wild cat mccane
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S&B 124gr brass FMJ. 20 boxes. $170 shipped.
Ammoseek had 3 different sellers yesterday with 9mm less than $15 dollars a box, all brass.
What I'm passing on is, it's coming back at normal prices. If three different online stores can sell at that price, we're truly getting hosed.
Ammoseek had 3 different sellers yesterday with 9mm less than $15 dollars a box, all brass.
What I'm passing on is, it's coming back at normal prices. If three different online stores can sell at that price, we're truly getting hosed.
I can certainly believe we’re getting hosed. But how does that knowledge help me? If all the purchase options I have are essentially $0.50-$0.60 a round (which is a huge difference from $0.16 a round) then my options are either buy or don’t. Currently I’m at don’t and have been for some time, but at some point I have to buy. Whether or not a person in a different part of the country can do much better from an undisclosed source doesn’t really help me.
Nothing on ammoseek is currently less than $0.49 a round:
https://ammoseek.com/ammo/9mm-luger
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Nothing on ammoseek is currently less than $0.49 a round:
https://ammoseek.com/ammo/9mm-luger
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wild cat mccane
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While not great stuff, this option has been up since mid yesterday at 90 available at the start. Not even half gone almost a full day after.
https://www.sgammo.com/product/maxx...rain-fmj-brass-case-maxxtech-ammo-ptgb9mmb-li
So...I think we are going to start seeing a drop. Even Federal has dropped their stuff $4 online.
Summer public financial reportings on ammo is always horrible. I'm saying, be patient. This is the perfect time NOT to buy.
https://www.sgammo.com/product/maxx...rain-fmj-brass-case-maxxtech-ammo-ptgb9mmb-li
So...I think we are going to start seeing a drop. Even Federal has dropped their stuff $4 online.
Summer public financial reportings on ammo is always horrible. I'm saying, be patient. This is the perfect time NOT to buy.
wachtelhund1
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I just checked Ammoseek and didn't find any 9mm ammo under $24.00 to $25.00 per box. That included 1,000 round bulk sales.
ammo.crafter
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9mm
Set up my 50+ year old RCBS Jr single stage press and began cranking out 9mm rounds one at a time.
As long as I have components I will not buy ammo at these grossly inflated prices.
Set up my 50+ year old RCBS Jr single stage press and began cranking out 9mm rounds one at a time.
As long as I have components I will not buy ammo at these grossly inflated prices.
Spats McGee
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I check ammoseek almost daily and haven't seen anything less than $0.49/rd in quite some time.
HighValleyRanch
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components are ever more scarce than ammo these days!
This has been my experience as well.
It also seems like shipping costs are higher
The cost and availability of ammo today is such a combination of factors it might be termed a "perfect storm" except for the fact that a perfect storm implies it is the worst (most perfect) combination of bad things possible, though sadly, I think things with ammo can still get worse, thought we hope for the better...
those of us with long enough memories got kind of spoiled in the 80s and into the 90s because ammo and component costs were just slightly above what they had been in the 70s and were pretty stable for a long time.
then fuel costs jumped about a third then more after that, and ammo is heavy...
And pretty quick ammo cost jumped a lot. Bought a box of Rem .45 Colt, cost $18 same stuff a year later was $28...
Add in lots of other factors over time, including rising cost of raw materials and growing industry in China, India and some other places buying large chunks of the available world suppy (where before they had not nearly as much) further increases in fuel and transportation costs, and on top of it all, the changing value of our dollar, LOTS of things (eventually everything) went up.
And in the past decade you've got political worries upping demand, (panic buying creating shortages) and then finally and most recently the virus pandemic and its effects on both demand and resources, and here we are at a time when damn little ammo is readily available and none of it at anywhere near what was its historical relative price.
I think the last couple years have given us a very good lesson on the pitfalls of a "Just in time" economy when it comes to manufacturing, in particular. Not having inventory of parts or even raw materials sitting around does reduce overhead costs BUT your profit relies on a steady, uninterrupted flow of what you need, and we've lost a lot of that recently. Things are coming back, (thank goodness there's toilet paper again
) but things are never going to be exactly like they were before, again...
those of us with long enough memories got kind of spoiled in the 80s and into the 90s because ammo and component costs were just slightly above what they had been in the 70s and were pretty stable for a long time.
then fuel costs jumped about a third then more after that, and ammo is heavy...
And pretty quick ammo cost jumped a lot. Bought a box of Rem .45 Colt, cost $18 same stuff a year later was $28...
Add in lots of other factors over time, including rising cost of raw materials and growing industry in China, India and some other places buying large chunks of the available world suppy (where before they had not nearly as much) further increases in fuel and transportation costs, and on top of it all, the changing value of our dollar, LOTS of things (eventually everything) went up.
And in the past decade you've got political worries upping demand, (panic buying creating shortages) and then finally and most recently the virus pandemic and its effects on both demand and resources, and here we are at a time when damn little ammo is readily available and none of it at anywhere near what was its historical relative price.
I think the last couple years have given us a very good lesson on the pitfalls of a "Just in time" economy when it comes to manufacturing, in particular. Not having inventory of parts or even raw materials sitting around does reduce overhead costs BUT your profit relies on a steady, uninterrupted flow of what you need, and we've lost a lot of that recently. Things are coming back, (thank goodness there's toilet paper again
) but things are never going to be exactly like they were before, again...I just sold off 950 rounds of .380 Silver Bear to a friend of a friend for $15 a box of 50, I remember buying it for about $6 a box about 10 years ago.
It's a great time to sell off that old ammo that you will never use in your guns.LOL
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