Ammo Prices

[pop pop]

The price of name brand ammo just seems not to be coming down very much from the online suppliers I have been purchasing from. SG Ammo, Lucky Gunner, and Midway are still about the same as always. I was hoping for some relief on prices by now. Guess we will be saddled with high prices from now on. I shoot mostly 9 MM, 22 LR, and 38 spl. Go to the range now and you think your paying a car payment afterwards. My range trips are much fewer rounds now. A box of 50 rounds is 30 to 50 dollars now for practice ammo. Self Defense ammo is 1.25 to 2.00 per round. Fixed income "Old Men" cannot shoot much at these prices. 

Edited to add; Just looked and Luky Gunner is 255.00 to 275.00 for 1000 9 MM, and S G Ammo is 255.00 to 275.00 per 1000 for practice ammo. Been there for 3 years now. 

Edited February 14, 2023 by pop pop

[deerslayer]

I rarely buy factory ammo, but the price of decent 9mm ball ammo in retail stores seems to have settled around $.40/shot.  If I needed it and found decent, semi-reputable 9mm ammo in stock for .25-.27 at Lucky Gunner or SG, I would jump all over it, assuming they aren't raping you on shipping.  

[monkeylizard]

It's right on the bubble of your target price.  $14/box ($0.28/rd) is pretty normal now on the bulk ammo sites.

[pop pop]

Purchased 1000 rounds box of Blazer 124 Gr FMJ 9 MM practice ammo while in Pigeon Forge yesterday. Had to pay 13.50 per box plus tax. Hated to do it, but that is the cheapest I have seen in 3 years. I shot about half that much last year so needed to replace it for future practice. Waited for years for it to go down with very little success. 

Edited to add; Purchased this at Bud's Guns behind Smokey Mountain Knife Works. S Mtn had Winchester Wildcat 22 Lr 500 round box for 34.99 and Federal 556MM 55Gr-BT 100rounds for 48.88. Got this for Son-in-law.   

Edited February 19, 2023 by pop pop

[chances R]

Range USA  had the same ammo for $10.  I was headed to the local shop until I read the fine print (Houston, TX)

Limit 3 boxes

[Scotty]

I check ammo prices pretty much daily and haven’t seen anything close to $.20 a round. That’s a steal. 
 

Velocity ammo has pretty good deals, free shipping over $200. For the most part in the past few weeks you could get Magtech, S&B or Fiocchi all shipped to your door for about $.275 CPR after taxes. 

For what it’s worth, I was at a trade show for distributors of hunting and fishing downtown in January. I went up to Magtech and S&B booths, and the general consensus was 9mm may touch close to $.20 a round, but then with an election cycle will climb again. Seems people that actually shoot and are not the new pandemic gun owners stocked up, production caught up, or consumers are feeling inflation/recession. I was told .556 may break below $.40cpr, .22lr will remain where it is, and anything specialty hunting or Home Defense will remain pricey as most of production was focused on just getting range ammo In mass. This I what the distributors told me after some small talk so don’t hold me to it, seemed to be the consensus was that the sweet spot will be next 9 months before they ramp up election cycle fear.

Pop pop I would recommend using ammoseek.com, and then filtering the search by shipping deal >8 or CF (conditional free). Luckily the days of trying to drive to local Walmart’s to find cci standard for $4 a box are over for me post pandemic, and now if I find a deal on a particular caliber I want I buy once and cry once in bulk and toss it in cans in the safe. I won’t be doing any more in person searching for a long time with gas prices unless it’s local FTF through a member here.

 

Hope that helps.