This weekend I bought a pack of 150 rounds of brass cased 124gr FMJ Browning branded 9mm ammo from Academy Sports for about 18 cents a round.
That was before the 20% off coupon they sent me in the mail was applied. That was a pretty good deal on FMJ ammunition.
A dollar a round for FMJ blasting ammo is not good at all. Unless you are in some kind of a true emergency where you must have a huge quantity of 9mm in a big hurry and you can't fine any from any other source it would be a very bad idea to pay that much for it. A VERY BAD IDEA. I have never in my life paid anywhere near that much money for FMJ 9mm.
You can probably go to your local gun store and buy self-defense hollowpoint ammunition for considerably less than that.
This is the kind of ridiculous stupidity that occurs when people start panicking and buying up everything that they can possibly imagine they might need. When they haven't planned ahead and bought what they really need in advance at good prices. And when unscrupulous sellers can, apparently with a clear conscience and a straight face, label ammo that is marked up more than 4x what it should be as being "Our Low Price".
If we, as the gun community, would remember the sellers who do things like this and NEVER. I mean NEVER buy anything from them ever again, the remaining sellers might get the idea that such behavior would not be tolerated.
Cheaper Than Dirt is known for this kind of thing. I stopped buying from them years ago and would highly recommend that everyone else stop buying from them as well. Their name is a lie. They are lying when they say that the price of that ammo is "Low". They will drop their prices back down when the shortage is over and they can't find panicking suckers to pay their ridiculous prices, but that doesn't change who they are. The next time there's even the hint of a panic, they will double, triple, quadruple their prices at the drop of the hat to try to profit off the people who are uninformed and scared enough that they feel they must buy immediately. Just a few days ago, they were selling that ammunition for under $250 a case. 24cents a round is still not a good deal, in my opinion, but it's in the right ballpark at least.
My advice is to forget they exist. Don't ever look at any of their catalogs or ads again. Never visit their website again. Tell all your friends not to buy from them ever again--not anything under any circumstances.
There are reputable sellers out there who do not abuse their customers the way Cheaper Than Dirt does. You can buy from those sellers in bulk when prices are good.
