Ammo prices dropping..

[4thIDvet]

http://gun-deals.com/deals/17392-wolf-polyformance

I check that sight everyday.. Slow but sure the prices are coming down..
I know Wolf ammo. Love it or hate it.. Hell it goes bang.. But .48 cents a round is a long way from cheap dirts gouging $1.00 a round..
Like the stock market, I am just watching and waiting to hit the buy button. Let the competition begin.

[Rick in NY]

Yup... it's going down across the board, but like gasoline, it goes up damned quick and takes forever to drop...

[RetVet]

I'm still seeing cheapo 22LR going for $12 a box of 50 for those desperate enough to pay that. Not me. I'll throw rocks or make a sling shot before I pay that much.

[Eightball]

.223 is starting to show up at the local Walmart. Last four times I've been in there they've had Tula steel case and Prvi Partizan brass on the shelf for $5.75 and $7.50 a box respectively. Also had Tula 7.62x39 for about $5 a box.
I'm still waiting for 22LR to come back. I have plenty stashed away, but it's always nice to be able to pick up a little more.

[baboon]

I talked to my brother who lives far outside of Chimpcongo. He gets 9 mm from a local guy who is manufacturing various ammo. He's paying .38 cents for jacketed 9 mm. Bitching about .22's.

I asked him what's up with handgun permits in the welfare state, seeing as it just passed.

[4thIDvet]

Same here with the .22 ammo. Through the roof in price if you can find it..
Survivalists, new gun owners, not cost effective to make?
Something drove it crazy in price?

[DirtySteve]

Originally Posted by 4thIDvet

Same here with the .22 ammo. Through the roof in price if you can find it..
Survivalists, new gun owners, not cost effective to make?
Something drove it crazy in price?

Back in November CCI mini mags $6.95 for 100, and I thought that was steep.....

[4thIDvet]

Originally Posted by DirtySteve

Back in November CCI mini mags $6.95 for 100, and I thought that was steep.....

Yeah Steve.. I just passed .22 mag up for $10.95 per 50 box.. Went back, it was gone..
.223-5.56 down 2 points to 46.8.
http://gun-deals.com/deals/9582-wolf-military-classic
Still to high.. I will use my slingshot till the price hits at least .25..
Bit better than when Nappy ran his yappy and it hit a dollar a round..

[DirtySteve]

Can't in justify paying 8x the price for .22lr......the whole allure of rimfires was that they were cheap to feed....

[Rew]

I have a lot of .22RF ammo, then again I have more than a couple .22RF firearms. But I do like the idea of picking up a box or two every now and then.

[DirtySteve]

Originally Posted by Rew

I have a lot of .22RF ammo, then again I have more than a couple .22RF firearms. But I do like the idea of picking up a box or two every now and then.

I did too, about 6 months ago, but 53 bucks is too steep for 100 CCI minimags.

[4thIDvet]

Originally Posted by DirtySteve

I did too, about 6 months ago, but 53 bucks is too steep for 100 CCI minimags.

Steve. Like the stock market.. If you need a particular item, you have to check it practically 3 or 4 times a day..
The big distributors have it one minute, gone the next.. You see it, call, lock it in and get a delivery confirmation number..
In regards to Wally World and their ammo sales.. Someone posted, think Railbuggy.. Here Deland, Daytona Fl.. They stock the ammo at 6:30 a.m..
6:31 a.m., according to the sales rep I spoke with, the gun show guys grab it, before it gets on the shelves.. They then take it to the gun shows and double their money..
I am not getting up at 6:30 a.m., even if their is a mortar attack.. I have all the ammo I need.

[Rew]

I was just offered, what the guy called "clean" lead. I can always use lead, so I asked what he wanted and how much did he have. I about fell out of my boots, $1.25 a lbe and he had a 70 lbe bar and an 80 lbe bar. What?!? I cast 1 lbe and 1/2 lbe bars, my pot take's 10 lbs at a time what the hell am I going to do with a 70 lbe bar of lead that I have to figure out how to cut up? (later on he said it came mostly from car battires, if he had told me that up front neither one of us would have had to waste our time)

[10 Bears]

I use an old hatchet and a heavy hammer to peel off chunks of lead from bars.
My friend uses an an acetelyne torch on his large lead castings.
Renders them into little puddles.

Sometimes I render mine down into one pound senco ingots.
Other times I sit down and cast everything into 500 gr (.69 cal) round balls.
Charging the pot is a hell of a lot easier with those lead balls.

Several years ago I gave a guy $2.00 for a coffee can full of fishing weights.
All of them were an oz. or larger.
There was allmost 30 pounds of lead in that coffee can.

Lead is where you find it.
Sometimes even yard sales.

[DirtySteve]

Originally Posted by 4thIDvet

Steve. Like the stock market.. If you need a particular item, you have to check it practically 3 or 4 times a day..
The big distributors have it one minute, gone the next.. You see it, call, lock it in and get a delivery confirmation number..
In regards to Wally World and their ammo sales.. Someone posted, think Railbuggy.. Here Deland, Daytona Fl.. They stock the ammo at 6:30 a.m..
6:31 a.m., according to the sales rep I spoke with, the gun show guys grab it, before it gets on the shelves.. They then take it to the gun shows and double their money..
I am not getting up at 6:30 a.m., even if their is a mortar attack.. I have all the ammo I need.

I feel the same way, got enough party favors in all calibers, but always extra comforting to add to the rimfire stockpile........