it’s baaaaaack.
Pretty much on cue, the first moderately priced bulk 22 ammo has arrived on the shelves. I got 4 boxes of 325 Federal Target Match 40 grain for $19 a box. Not cheap, but better than I’ve been seeing. Gander Mountain has a wad of it, for now
Limit ten boxes. Four is enough to keep me through the next couple matches.
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I’m so envious. I don’t even shoot 22. But at $20 a box, I would.
I just spent $550 on .380 and 9mm. It was upwards of $1 per round and I looked around (went with a local guy who was a bit more than Ammoman, etc). Shocks the conscience. The new normal, I guess.
Knox: email me. I got a guy.
380 is what I am short of right now. Am seeing some on the shelves, but still goes away pretty quick. Need some cheap FMJ for practice.
Paul: You got my email or should. Look at Precision Cartridge. Not the best prices on earth, but they can always get me ammo, if I give them a little warning.
Hmmm. Let’s do some Maths.
I paid $19 for a 525 round Box of Federal 36 grain Hollowpoint in 2010. Comes out to 3.6 cents a round.
You paid $19 for 325 rounds. Comes out to 5.8 cents a round.
Seems to be a 38% price increase over 3 years. In a country where the “Official Gooberment Inflation Rate” has been running at 1-2% a year.
I hope this isn’t the “New Normal”.
les, I suspect that is exactly what it is. I remember paying $9.25 for that same box of 525 rounds
Picked up 525 rounds at Wally World a few weeks ago. $25.65 or 4.8 cents a round. Not great but better than the gun shop selling the same box for $85 a month ago. I would stop in to see if he still has it but I was too disgusted by his attitude.
I think I have a partial case of some 22 that I paid less than 5 for. Seems like it was 500 or so rounds. Federal with lead bullets in individual 50 round loose pack boxes. I’m still working through that box. Got it so long ago I hate to even guess.
I expect prices are going to keep dropping as demand returns to normal (with the exception that the Kennecott mine collapse might buoy prices a little due to the decreased supply of copper, for a while).
That Gummint inflation rate of 1-2%?
They went to excluding fuel and food from that rate a few years back. Why? Possibly because it made the gummint look bad.
In 2008 gas around here was $1.85 per gal. This year it’s been $3.30 – 3.79.
That’s 100% in 5 years.
Milk in 2008 was 1.98/ gal. Now it’s 3.98/ gal.
Loaf of bread in 2008 was .98. 2013 it’s 1.98.
Everybody I know needs milk bread and gas.
I see bad stuff in the future because the FED is still printing funny money like there’s no tomorrow.