What is the most you will pay for ammo?

[crossfire]

When all this started I was a little short on ammo and never thought .22lr would be this hard to find. Since then I made up a list of what I was willing to pay for target/plinking ammo. I have cut my range time some what and I don't shoot what I can't replace. If I see ammo within my price range I buy it, anything over and I walk away. I've traded for calibers I couldn't find at the time and I've sold to my friends at cost, if they needed it. I set my prices tax included or with shipping. Most of what I have bought was less then my max price. I guess its up to you what your willing to pay and how much you shoot. But it does look like supply is catching up with demand or the "fools" are running out of money. Either way its a good thing.

What's your top price for ammo? or if you reloader's want to jump in, list your top/max prices for components.

 

7.62 x 39      $30/100

.223/556      $40/100

9mm             $30/100

45acp            $45/100

38spl             $35/100

.22LR             $28/500

 

[frankmako]

i reload so I don't buy ammo except 22 lr.   when the 500 round bulk pack went sky high I stopped buying.  I am glad that I had a bunch of 22 lr before the price went up. 

[Troutburger]

Apparently I'll spend $55/1000 on primers and 30/# for powder... Never thought I would, but I did...

[Jonnin]

Unless its very, very, very cheap I won't buy any factory except rimfire. 

 

For that, I *have* paid $50 for 500 at least once.  But anything over $30 will only happen for high quality stuff, not golden misfires or thunderandomgroup type stuff.

[JWC]

I paid $50/500 cci .22lr. It sucked when I was paying but i wanted to shoot, i had no real options to find any elsewhere because of my rural location at the time. I shot it all and it felt good though.

But I doubt pay over $30/500 again.

I started casting and reloading. with all the crap i buy I'd say I'll pay about $500 per 100 .38, .357, .223, 9mm, .243, .284, or 7mm rem mag. Haha

[Grunt67]

 I'm not hurting. Anything above 20 for 9mm or 25 for 40's, I'll pass, and do often. LOL

[Erik88]

If prices don't go back down I'll be finding a new hobby and keeping what I have on hand for when TSHTF.

 

 

$25/100 is probably my limit for 9mm unless I'm only shooting a few times a year.

[dlm37015]

577 nitro if I could find some about 50 .00 per round

[Guest nra37922]

Depends on how desperate I am, and I am not that desperate.  If I cannot replace what I want to shoot for practice I'll put off practice until I can.  I can wait until Cabelas, Academy, Midway etc get ammo in and go from there.

[jdw174]

I have GunBot set on .36 per round for 9mm and it comes up for sale at that price or below regularly.

[jeff43]

Whatever WalMart has it priced at .

[TNMTBik3r]

I reload, so no need to buy ammo except .22lr.  My price for a 500 round box is $25 max, I don't remember paying over $20 though.

 

As for reloading supplies, it depends on how bad I need it and the specific item (obviously Barnes/Nosler .308 bullets will be more expensive than .355 FMJs). Today for example I passed on CCI small pistol primers at $50 per 1k. Teds has several boxes, but I know that inventory is coming back in stock and prices are falling - a couple of months back I would have paid the $50. I know I can get these primers for around $35 I just have to visit the right store.

 

I also found some Tulla primers for $31.99 and passed on them but only because of the brand.

[Superman]

I reload, so no need to buy ammo except .22lr.  My price for a 500 round box is $25 max, I don't remember paying over $20 though.

 

As for reloading supplies, it depends on how bad I need it and the specific item (obviously Barnes/Nosler .308 bullets will be more expensive than .355 FMJs). Today for example I passed on CCI small pistol primers at $50 per 1k. Teds has several boxes, but I know that inventory is coming back in stock and prices are falling - a couple of months back I would have paid the $50. I know I can get these primers for around $35 I just have to visit the right store.

 

I also found some Tulla primers for $31.99 and passed on them but only because of the brand.

No reason to pass on Tulla primers, they are good primers.

[TNMTBik3r]

I know I can get CCI for just a couple bucks more, and they are more reliable IMO.

[BigK]

I have GunBot set on .36 per round for 9mm and it comes up for sale at that price or below regularly.

I reload handgun ammo, but not rifle ammo yet. I still hunt for deals on handgun ammo, b/c I can sell it at my cost to friends who need it.

My GunBot settings:

22LR - 5 cents/rd
32acp/9mm Mak/9mm Luger - 25 cents/rd
45acp - 35 cents/rd
.223/5.56 - 35 cents/rd
7.62 X 39 - 33 cents/rd
7.62 X 54 - 20 cents/rd

[StPatrick]

I look at gunbot.net to see how the market's moving, and thus far it's been in the right direction for shooters...of some calibers.  .223 / 5.56 is dropping as Russian steel-cased is becoming more plentiful, which will drive down prices on brass-cased plinker ammo like XM193 over time.  Additionally, I've seem PMC bronze 5.56 at <$0.50 per, so if a cascade of availability follows, we could realistically get down to 0.35 or so over the next couple months.  With as many rifles sold as there have been in the past 5 years, 0.25 per .223 / 5.56 seems unlikely to come back, but hopefully additional mfg. capability that's being added at the major ammo producers reduces the supply-side pressure on the market.

 

9mm will be more of a wait, I think.  It's the most popular handgun caliber after .22lr, its owners were afraid of a high-cap mag ban, and there were a ton of potentially "bad" guns sold between 2008 and the present,  which was the most active gun purchasing period in recorded history.  Everybody who had a 9mm and didn't have a pile of ammo seems to have gone and got theirs, and based on what's available, they're still working on it.  When we all go buy ammo, we're competing against a slew of new gun owners for the same supply, and will be until manufacturing capacity comes online, e.g. the new Remmy plant in AR.  Like 5.56 / .223, the cheap steel-cased stuff should start flowing in soon, which will abate some of the pressure, but I wonder if factory 115 gr. will be seen again at 0.18 / per.  Hope so.

 

7.62 x 51 has already stabilized, in that the basic range food is 0.75 or so and the good stuff still runs up to $2.00 a squeeze, just like it used to.  .30-06 has shown the same tendencies.  I cannot explain the market for .30-30 and won't try.

 

.22lr is still a hot mess.  My first guess on why this is so would be that every current gun owner has a .22 or six they love, so they stocked up when things started to go sideways, and the new owners needed rounds to feed new purchases.  Since we all tend to shoot a lot of .22lr, my guess is that it's the last to come back.

 

These are all my predictions, produced via the SWAG method*, so feel free to disagree.

 

*Scientific Wild-Assed Guess