.38 Spl for less than $8.10/50?

[wooderson]

Even CCI aluminum is $9.50-10/box locally, and I'm not getting lucky online.

Outdoor Marksman has Miwall SWC reloads that come out to $6.45/50 or $8.10/50 delivered. Georgia Arms' Canned Heat starts at $8.50 before shipping.

Perchance, does anyone have a reccomendation for .38Spl cheaper than that? I'm not picky about style - WC, SWC, LRN, FMJ, whatever. Just looking for practice ammo.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

 

[gezzer]

Reload wadcutters or 150 grain semi-wadcutters box, with home cast will cost about 3 bucks or less.

 

[Golddog]

www.rozedist.com for Zero Ammunition reloads. I buy 'em by thousand round lots and trade them my empty brass. For 158 gr. lead WC or RN, with my traded brass and including my cost to ship brass to them (around $13 per 1000 via UPS) the cost comes to about $5 to $5.25 per 50 rounds in thousand round lots. They ship free, by the way.

Zero reloads have been excellent for me, in both .38 and .357.

 

[strat81]

www.leeprecision.com will get you some pretty inexpensive ammo.

 

[The-Fly]

If you shoot a lot of 38spl, its time to reload. I can do jacketed (well plated to be 100% accurate) 38spl loads for under $4 per 50. I use Berry's 125gr FP over 4.8gr of W231.

 

[wooderson]

Reloading is in the near-future plans, I just got the ABCs of Reloading from Amazon. But for now I'm at a loss for space and may spend six to nine months living out of a Best Western (building a lodge/B&B in Llano, TX).

I'll definitely check out Zero. $5-6/50 is cheap enough to keep me shooting until things settle down.

 

[_N4Z_]

Being an avid .38/.357 shooter, and a non-reloader, I checked "Zero" about an hour ago after reading this thread.

Looked like their stuff is going for about 9 bucks and up per 50, hp's, swc's, sp's, etc. Bummer.

 

[michael_aos]

I bought 1500 of the Miwall 158gr LRN last year for $200.87/shipped.

Roughly $6.70/50.

Mike

 

[wooderson]

That's shipped, though, so only about a buck more than OMC's Miwall, plus whatever you get on their brass trade-in.