Best Ammo Deal You Ever Got?

[Puncha]

Just came back from an ammo firesale conducted by one of only two gun stores in the Asian country where I reside.

Every Nov/Dec, this gun store does an inventory count and if a certain load/round has been in storage for more than 10 years, if very few lots have been bought even with discounts offerred or the ammo shows signs of tarnishing/rust, they slash the price by as much as 80% and offer other free ammo with the severely discounted rounds.

Anyhow, after struggling with 17 other bargain hunters in a small and dingy shop space, I managed to get the following ammo:

400 rounds of 12ga Fiocchi Top Trap 7/8oz #7.5 birdshot at US$0.18/shell
(brass bases displayed very slight rusting)
350 rounds of .38 Special 148gr LWCs. The box was red and white in colour and labeled Winchester Western made by Olin Corp. (This was free)
500 rds of Fiocchi 115gr 9mm FMJ rounds at US$0.19/rd.
500rds of CCI .22LR minimags. (Free as stored for more than 10 years)

Total price for all the above ammo = US$167

How did I do in comparison to walmart or stateside gunshow standards?

What was the best deal you guys ever had?

 

[MaterDei]

The free stuff you got was a great deal. The 12 gauge and the 9mm prices you paid are pretty much the norm.

My best ammo deals are usually at the local gun shows. My reloads are real cheap too.

 

[pete f]

about 15000 rounds of 7.62x39 for the cost of shipping. each case contained something like 1440 rounds or so, and there were 11 of them. they were sitting in an business that went out of business and a friend knew i would like it, called me up and asked what he should do with it, I said I will have a truck there in a day or so. called around and found a company locally that would handle it for me, I think i paid 55 bucks or something to have it shipped back with a bunch of used office furniture.

 

[Mr White]

Sometimes when I go to the range, I find 5, maybe even 6 rounds of unfired .22 LR laying around... Free for the taking. It doesn't get any better than that!


The best deal I ever got was about a month ago. 300 rounds of Guatemalan .223 for 12c/round. Cashier at a gun shop made a mistake. I didn't notice it until I got home. Oh well.

 

[LiquidTension]

.38+p+ Hydrashocks for $6/box of 50. Only bought two because I didn't own a .38. When I realized my mistake, I went back to buy the rest but a certain moderator here had already snatched it up.

 

[wally]

At a gunshow Silver Bear 9mm 145 gr JHP $40/500 out the door. I bought all they had -- 2500 rounds.

--wally.

 

[Mannlicher]

When KMart sold out

Back in 2001, the KMart in Miami stopped handling ammo. I just happened to be there, when they marked them down. Among other things, I bought 900 rounds of .44 Mag Blazer 240 grain LSWC for $1.00 a box of 50. I took all the .22 LR they had at $1.00 a box of 500. The .270, 30/06, .243 and 30-30 all came home at $1.00 a box of 20.
The .45 Auto, .357, .38 also were in my shopping cart, again, at $1.00 a box.
That was a wonderful day.
Some guy ahead of me took all the 12 Ga and 20 Ga.

 

[Puncha]

Mannlicher,

Am beginning to really envy your bargain of a lifetime experience.

The closest I have ever come to rock bottom prices for FRESH ammo is US$0.13/round for 124gr 9mm FMJ or Teflon coated 158gr .38 Special +P LRN.

Anyway, as they say....."Buy it cheap, stack it deep".

 

[1911Tuner]

Best Ammo Deal

Sometime in the mid-60s. 1950s headstamp GI .45 hardball for $1.50 a box, and a buck twenty-five if you bought 10 boxes or more. 50s LC .30-06 ball was a nickel a round, or 4 cents 500 or more. .38 Special Ball/FMJ-RN was a dollar a box...6 bits for 10 boxes or more. (200-grain bullet at about 700 fps. Mild stuff, but it shot well) .30 carbine was about the same as .38 Special. Nice USGI pistols were going for about 40 or 50 dollars...and 65 for minty examples.

Of course, a loaf of bread was 15 cents, and milk was 30 cents a quart.
High-test gas was 25 cents a gallon...good high-test...and minimum wage was 75 cents an hour.

 

[Glockfan.45]

Over 6000 rounds of 7.62x39mm for free . A friends dad passed away and he had quite a collection. I helped her clean out the garage and in return I got to keep a bunch of gun stuff laying around including a box full of 30 round AK (including some rare soviet metal slab side) and AR mags, two Romanian drums, lots of new unissued soviet wood AK furniture, a few hundred rounds of .45acp, a butt load of 9mm (which was sold), and various other odds and ends. Sadly her uncle got the guns though. Oh I split the money on the sale of all the 9mm with her to be fair.

 

[Werewolf]

I lost a bet with a benchrest shooter. 50 rounds of benchrest grade .308 Win that he handloaded for $30. I'd of gotten it free if I'd won the bet. Either way I figured I was ahead.

 

[Lou629]

Best ammo deal i ever got? Just about anything & everything purchased prior to the 2005/06 round of bi-monthly price increases!

 

[Pumpkinheaver]

I went to a local shop that was going out of buisness. I knew the guy pretty well, long time customer. He sold me 1000 rounds of 125gr LRN 9MM ammo for something like $20.

 

[Bridger]

500 rounds of Wolf buckshot for free from a forum member here! Thank you very much!

 

[carnaby]

The best ammo deal someone else got was when I sold 850 rounds of speer lawman for $5/50 on the Beretta forum after I sold my 96 Brig. That was dumb.

 

[Jubjub]

Some months ago I stopped by one of the Wal-Marts that had stopped selling guns, and they had a bunch of ammo on clearance. They had remaining some .30-06, some .35 Remington, a couple of boxes of .38 Special, a bunch of .357, some .32 ACP, and one box of .300 Win mag. It was all priced at 50% or more off, and I have guns to shoot all but the .300, so I left them with the one lone box. Six to eight dollars each for boxes of various centerfire rifle and pistol works just fine for me.

 

[2TransAms]

500 rounds of .308 for free! 300 rounds were some foreign surplus,200 rounds were Federal Gold Match! It was given to me...too bad I didn't have a .308,so I gave the ammo to a friend of mine who did.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

1800 rounds of .22 for free. Friend of mine got 3600 rounds free from an aquaintence that was eliminating his entire collection. For some reason he simply told me he'd split it with me. Gun guys. They're a great bunch.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I went to Dick's Sporting Goods because they had a sale on 9MM Remington rounds. The sale was $6.48 a box of 50 or $5.98 a box when you buy the case. (10 boxes.) The cashier rang it up along with other ammo I was buying and I saw it was wrong. I told her it was supposed to be $5.98 per box by the case. She argues with me and said I scanned it and it's $6.48. I tried again but she didn't want to listen. She gave me a case = 10 boxes of 50 = 500 rounds for $6.48.

I don't think I'll ever see 500 rounds of 9MM Remington for $6.48 again!!