Good .45acp Ammo Buy - Take Advantage Of It!

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Mr.Blue

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I just bought 5 boxes of Federal (not American Eagle) 230 FMJs at Walmart for $16.97 each. They only had 5 left. This is a pretty good buy, as it is American made stuff. I may go out and get a few more boxes from another Walmart before the prices go up.
 
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What's factory ammo?
Oh, you mean that store bought stuff.
Never could afford much of that.
It's nice and shiny, though.
And thanks, to all that use it, for the brass.
:p
 
What's factory ammo?
Oh, you mean that store bought stuff.
Never could afford much of that.
It's nice and shiny, though.
And thanks, to all that use it, for the brass.
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+1 to that, love that brass...
 
I buy a lot of my ammo at wal-mart. 9mm federal is about $10.50 a box.
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Lucky, my walmart's in the area only sell wwb and some other brand, $13.99 and like $14.99 never no federal. But at the gun shows you can find someone selling like 3 cases of the stuff for $12 a box.
 
I buy WWB at Wally world in .45 ACP for cheap too. In case you guys didn't know Walmart recently announced that they are making a big push to sell guns in something like 3,500 more Walmarts across the nation, long guns only but still. I think they are getting more aggressive with their ammo pricing to draw more shooters in so when they do bring in the guns more people will see it. Bout time.
 
To those that reload, BRAVO! I don't have the time to do so, as I'm sure many on the forum don't either. My time is more valuable than the savings i would get by reloading.

The original post was not supposed to be about how great reloaders are and how foolish the rest of us are. The post was an effort to share a good deal with others who do not reload.
 
I have time to reload, just not the space to mount a setup. NTM the amount I could reload in an hour with a single stage press the savings is less than I make an hour so I'd be better off working OT and spending the money on ammo.
 
I've been reloading for such a long time, that no matter what the prices are for factory ammo, it gives me sticker shock and heart palpitations.
Feel free to ignore me, and carry on, (at your peril).
 
Mr.Blue,

I went to my local Walmart, today in Georgia.
We had Tula .45 ammo for 14.95 a box so..I'm
afraid ours is a little cheaper :D
 
I've still got about half a case of remanufactured hardball (USA Ammo) that ended up running me ~$15/box.

Granted, if I shot it all up and wanted to get more without waiting for delivery (and didn't want to shoot steel for whatever reason), the prices for Federal at WM seem pretty reasonable.
 
"Mr.Blue,

I went to my local Walmart, today in Georgia.
We had Tula .45 ammo for 14.95 a box so..I'm
afraid ours is a little cheaper "

Microman,

Yeah we had that Tula stuff too. I don't like to shoot the Russian stuff in my good guns. I'd rather pay up for the American stuff.
 
Bet that's the small pistol primer stuff. YUCK!

Dave
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Not at my local Wally World, it's still LP. It shoots pretty good too. I reload, but occasionally buy factory ammo when I take others out to shoot my guns.......just to be safe. It's not much more than loading my own with MG 230 FMJs, and it gives me good once-fired brass to take home. I too thank those that buy factory ammo and leave their brass, but I don't care if it's LP or SP. It's easy to tell one from the other as you pick it up and it shoots(from my experience) to the same POA when reloaded with the same components. What's so yucky about that?
 
What's so yucky about that?
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Running your brass through a progressive machine! I usually catch them as I feed them into the press but once in a while one slips by. Trying to cram an LP into that SP primer pocket brings the whole process to a grinding halt and it doesn't get started up again until the mess has been cleared up. I call that "yucky"...for the polite version!

Dave
 
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