What Are You Willing To Pay For 9mm?

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I've never understood the need for people to say "shoulda stocked up" whenever this question is asked. Doesn't do anyone any good, nor does telling someone to start reloading (if you're new to that, components are going to be hard to find for that too).
It doesn't do anyone good right this moment, but it does do people a lot of good when one considers that this is not the last panic that we will all see. When this one ends (as the last one did) it's time to stock up when the prices get good and supply is not an issue.
I don't know about during the Clinton years, but this hasn't felt like any of the panics we've had in the past 15 or so years. This feels serious, and may drag on awhile.
IMO, this feels exactly like the past panics, some of which dragged on for years.
 
I want to be able to maintain my habit (competition), while still keeping a SHTF level of inventory.

I honestly believe that those two requisites are incompatible and mutually exclusive, especially in the current times. How much one will pay for ammo is irrelevant when there is no ammo to be had at any price.

until things get so bad I have to stop competing. I dont believe I'm there just yet.

We're there.

This summer is my teenage son's first year doing the USPSA pistol league. He has burned through a LOT of my 9mm. Suddenly, what I thought was sufficient is not. I'm doing this season with a rimfire, and even there, what I thought was plenty, is not, and there is none to be had. The same is true about my reloading components-what I thought was sufficient is not.

My son has two matches left, and I have six left. I will probably skip at least one of those. This will be the last year I compete for the foreseeable future-probably the next few, if not several, years. I only shot one NRA mid range prone match this year; I will no longer be doing Service Rifle for a while, either.
 
How much one will pay for ammo is irrelevant when there is no ammo to be had at any price.
There IS ammo to be had, as I mentioned in my earlier post. You may have to buy JHP/premium/match ammo instead of cheap blasting ammo, but that's not the same as there being "no ammo to be had at any price".

I just checked my normal online supplier and they have significant quantities of both 9mm (JHP) and .22LR.
 
I paid .38 cents round for 40 S&W
Subsequently paid .40 round for 357 Sig
So, the most I could tolerate for 9mm FMJ would have to be .40 a round.
No way I'm paying more for 9mm than 40 or 357 Sig. Pay more, get less? No thanks. :evil:
 
There IS ammo to be had, as I mentioned in my earlier post. You may have to buy JHP/premium/match ammo instead of cheap blasting ammo, but that's not the same as there being "no ammo to be had at any price".

I just checked my normal online supplier and they have significant quantities of both 9mm (JHP) and .22LR.

I think you are mincing words.Most people I believe are talking about range ammo. And the other day, I at the range that is exactly what people were using for range about. Defense rounds at around $37.00 a box. And it will not be long before that is gone as well. I have been receiving 22.cal each week for the past 3 months and watching that die out as well. At least anything affordable to shoot. Turning more and more to my air guns. Not strange that this months Guns and Ammo Magazine featured a Glock Air Soft gun.
 
I suppose it just depends on what its worth to a person. A lot of us can sit here and say we won't pay anything over x$ for a box of 50 rds. But most of us have ammo sitting aside already.

For the guy that just bought his first handgun, 400 bucks for a case is alot better then no ammo. It may not be worth that much to us, but to him it may be worth much more. Just my thoughts on it.
I have a fair amount of ammo. 9mm at Jax is in the $35 per 100 range(2 box max). BUT I think most first time HG buyers, will buy a 100 rounds of ammo, shoot 50 and then put the thing away..not really 'shooters'...$20 per 50 isn't too much for me.
 
I reload my practice ammo, and always try to keep a couple hundred rounds in hand for al firearms that I load. I usually have two boxes of premium store bought for carry. When ammo is in short supply I shoot sparingly to keep familiarity. If you have no ammo when someone is breaking into your home ...if you preach self defence...you are a fool if you quibble over the cost of saving your life. If I am going to be out of ammo (which would include reloading supplies/reloaded rounds) I would pay what is necessary to be sure I have at least a couple magazines full. For practice ammo, very unlikely to spend the money, but of course I wouldn't hesitate to use target ammo for self defense if necessary.
 
What Are You Willing To Pay For 9mm?

$0.20 is my upper limit for range practice ammo, $0.75 for premium self defense ammo.
 
The Shortage is hard now. Especially when I was buy bulk Steel case at $6.44 cost delivered right to my door. And all my guns shot it with no problem at all. Just saw a case for sale today for $399.00. Insane. Use to get it for $128.00 delivered. American Eagle was $8.45 per box. Good luck on finding any. I really wonder if this sport will return to nomal ever again. And Please do NOT blame this on the Virus. They are doing this Panic out of fear. And rightly so. In some ways the Liberals have already won a major victory. More guns bought, but less people shooting them. Just another thing we can thank them for. And yet some folks will actually go and vote for me of this insanity.
 
I already posted on this subject. I am a shooter. Have a good supply of 9mm that I stocked away for years. But I will not pay any of the high prices now. I will shoot only 22.cal on weekly range days while using 9mm very sparingly in order to retain familiarity with them. I have been buying thousands of rounds of 22.cal in the past few months. I do not see this sport ever being the same again. Once I use us x amount of 9mm, I will put a complete halt to using any more.

I've been all ate up by .22 long range and precision shooting, which I just got into this summer, so my centerfire and shotgun ammo stocks haven't been dented much lately.
Re .22lr, it's still out there, but even the target and match grade stuff, which I've been running through my CZ 457, has gotten thin on the market.
The other day I checked what was available on Killough Shooting Sports, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eley, and even they have had some whammy put on 'em. I think non-match shooters are even starting to go to buy target/match grade stuff just to have some ammo. I've noticed stuff like Lapua Center-X, SK Rifle Match, RWS's offerings, etc, are spotty all over the country when it comes to the national ammo houses.
People are doing a serious freakout, IMO.
I've a modest stock of 9mm range ammo, maybe 5,000 rounds, and honestly I'm letting it sit. Just getting in some practice with my .22lr handguns and my .38 wheelguns. It will have to do for now.
 
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It's really amazing that so many gun folks cant come to the realization that everyone who is a hardcore gun person right now hasn't been one since the Reagan era.

Those of us that have been "hardcore" since the Reagan era and before, have seen ownership of firearms change drastically since then. Amount of firearms owned, types of firearms and what constitutes "enough" ammo are the biggest changes.

That said, the good ol' days, like many of the good ol' boys(besides you) are history. Anyone who has been on a firearms forum for 4 years with 2400 posts should know how fickle and how volatile ammunition availability is. Hard to believe it snuck up on you. That said it seems in MHO,from what I have read here, that you are willing to pay whatever you have to to keep shooting at the rate you have escalated to. Certainly is your right. Maybe asking others if they would pay as much is a way to justify it to yourself, but there really is no need. Your money, your guns, your choice. That said, I believe much of these panic shortages of ammo and firearms are driven by greed from retailers preying on folks with the same mindset.

Me, I can wait. I reload, and buy no centerfire ammo at all. Still components are hard to find and pricey too, and I have many years worth of components already. Like with anything else during this pandemic and ensuing civil unrest, I'll tighten my belt and do without for a while. If that means I can't shoot every Saturday, then so be it. I'll find something else to do. Just like when beef prices jumped, I ate pork and chicken. When gas prices hit $4 a gallon, I stayed closer to home. If something is really absolutely necessary, I'll do what I have to do, but.....I'll be dammed if I let some greedy retailer gouge me because I think I have to do something I can live without, just because I have the money to do so.
 
I have been paying $170/ K for WWB, Rem, CCI, Fiocchi, Privi, etc brass case ball. I have quite a bit. I'll get more when it's $170/K again so $8.50 a box next Spring. Federal .22lr was $199/ 5250 rd case with a $40 rebate maybe 12 months ago. Only got a few cases unfortunately. I'll do that again, whenever. I'm still shooting 15 y/o "Wally box" 550 rds that I bought a mass quantity for $9. Now ain't ammo buying time. Joe
 
I think my limit would be 20% above what it sold for last year.
I don`t need any at this time either.
 
Now is a good time to run your firearms that are not 9mm, 12guage or .223.

40's and 7.62x39 are the way to go. Still plenty to be had for mostly normal price.
 
i know loadings not for everyone, but for 600$/1000, you could buy a lee press, and 1000 rounds worth of components. 1000 rounds is about 8 hours of practice, but you would be really good at it by the end. On top of that, the next 1000 rounds only costs you $130, or less if you live in a state with retail reloading. If you stick to only rifle, or only pistol, and get some low density powder, its actually very safe to do.
 
Tough call. When I moved, I ditched my stockpile of range ammo. Sold it to buddies. I bought a modest amount of new stuff. I did bring the fancy pants SD ammo. Matches were on hold due to the weather and pandemic. Now they are opening up, so I've bought enough at about $15.00 for 50. Not the best brands but you never know. I feel better with 2K stashed.
 
... What's the most you would pay for 9mm?
I am one of those hardheaded folks who will refuse to pay panic-pricing even if that means that I have to stop shooting until we are far down the rear slope of the silliness.

Currently the maximum that I would consider paying for 115gr or 124gr brass-cased boxer-primed factory ammo (delivered!) is 20¢/rd which represents about a 10% increase over what I would have considered paying a year ago.

The last 9x19 factory-ammo deal that I found and purchased was, IIRC, in early 2019. Bought a 1k case of 115gr plinking ammo to have on-hand for family/friends that may have a need.

I have plenty of cases, primers, propellants, bullets (lead bullets, FMJ and several types of both premium & non- HP), developed-loads and time to create more if my stockpile of what I have already created starts to run low. :)
 
I received an email the other day for our gun club's bulk ammo buy. It's remanufactured 124 gr. FMJ. $123/500 rds. If I didn't reload, I could see myself buying that ammo.
 
I guess that I'll be setting up the presses today.
Hurricane Hannah has me bore-sighted and reloading is what I do during bad weather.
It won't be 9mm, though. I've got plenty of that.
I'll just try out my new 6.5 Arisaka dies... .
 
It's all relative... if you're someone who has purchased ammo in years past at rock bottom prices you'd scoff at paying current prices, but if you're someone just joining the firearms community in the year 2020 you'd gladly pay what the ammo market commands to have what you want/need to go shooting. When I joined the world of firearms in the summer of 2014 I didn't know or care what ammo cost over the last few years, and I was gladly paying IIRC around $15/box for 9mm FMJ. Now siting here today I'd have a hard time paying even the 2014 prices, much less todays going rate, because I've seen and purchased 9mm ammo for significantly less. If you have no ammo and want to shoot you'll pay what you have to, or just sit it out and I guess have fun dry firing.
 
There IS ammo to be had, as I mentioned in my earlier post. You may have to buy JHP/premium/match ammo instead of cheap blasting ammo, but that's not the same as there being "no ammo to be had at any price".

I just checked my normal online supplier and they have significant quantities of both 9mm (JHP) and .22LR.

Guess I need to go photograph some empty shelves for you then. My local store has nothing left in 9mm but tracer ammo-and they have a LOT of it. It is banned at every range in the area; the only place to shoot it is on your own private land. The U.S. Dept. of Transportation banned shipping of ammo to Alaska years ago. My only option is in-person, in-store purchase. I believe California is in that boat as well or will be soon. So I stand by statement: there is no ammo to be had anywhere at any price. If you can still buy JHP ammo, I strongly urge you to buy all you can right now; it's only a matter of time before you have no option available to you at all.
 
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