Have ammo prices settled in to a new "normal"?

[bushmaster1313]

I think the days of getting American Eagle .223 at $4.50 per 20 rounds are gone forever. However, high quality brass cased 5.56 is available at $169 per 500 rounds delivered ($6.76 per 20).

Except for .22 LR, does it appear that ammo has settled in for a new normal?

 

[ulflyer]

At a LGS last wednesday they had PPU 9mm for a little over $10. Haven't seen any that cheap in a good while.

Lets hope the trend keeps going down.........like gas.

 

[Ks5shooter]

I reload so don't have first hand experience on centerfire. 22LR seem to be out of control still going for 450-500 per 5000 at auction. I saw it coming with Obama first run and bought 22LR for 150 bucks for 5k. I bought many cases.

 

[Warp]

I don't think we can consider anything as normalized until powder and .22lr are both sitting on shelves in quantity + variety nationwide.

And I'm referring to factory centerfire ammo. To much relation between, say, Winchester ammo on the shelves and Winchester powder on the shelves, IMO, for one to be at a baseline when the other basically doesn't exist 'in the wild'.

I think prices are still creeping down, though not as quickly as they were


BTW, you can get very good M193 (IMI) from Wideners for $0.29 per round + shipping ($349 for 1,200 rounds, + shipping)

https://www.wideners.com/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=9017

 

[OilyPablo]

All the 9mm I have bought in the last little while has been under $10/box. Brass for others is available. Powder can be had, must have all the loading books and references for "flexibility".

Agree on the .22LR

 

[Plan2Live]

Ground beef is at all time highs as are most other food items. New vehicle prices seem ridiculous to me. My dry cleaner posted new, higher prices this morning. Lots of things are more expensive now than they were two or three years ago. I don't see why we would expect ammo to take a different path.

 

[Warp]

All the 9mm I have bought in the last little while has been under $10/box. Brass for others is available. Powder can be had, must have all the loading books and references for "flexibility".

Agree on the .22LR

Yeah, powder can be had.

In the way that .22lr can be had.

Speaking of, if you have links to currently in stock, well priced, ready to ship CCI Standard Velocity and Wolf Match Target; or somebody with Power Pistol + magnum pistol primers + AA#7 in stock, I'm all ears (that wouldn't have been much of a problem in the before-times)

 

[Thermactor]

Ammo should follow the path of gasoline prices - i.e. it needs to track the price of the underlying commodity. Lead and copper are at pre-2008 prices.

 

[CZ223]

The only 9mm

that I have seen for $.20 per round is the steel cased Russian stuff and the new aluminum cased stuff from Federal. Everything else in close to $.27 per round for fmj. While I do reload, a lot, I like the new aluminum stuff pretty well for plinking, it gives the non reloader a good option. In 9mm and 40 S&W you can save $5 per 50 but in 45 you can save $10 per 50. It might mean finding once fired brass gets a little harder or more expensive, especially if other companies follow suit, but I am glad it is out there. I am putting some aside as money allows, so when the next panic happens, and it will, and all those that didn't prepare for it, and millions won't, start buying anything they can get their hands on, I will have ammo to sell them when the cheap stuff dries up on the Walmart shelves, and it will.

 

[jbuck]

Midway has cci SV in stock for the last 4 days and the federal bulk pack lasted for 3 days.

I think that is a good sign. The cci is still in stock for 39 per 500 which is close to what I use to pay for.

I went and looked at some of the price tags on my older ammo and it is actually cheaper.

 

[nathan]

Not unless theres a change in the White House . The hoarders are still out there , very active with no end in sight.

 

[Warp]

Midway has cci SV in stock for the last 4 days

They are accepting pre-orders for what they are supposed to have in a few days, apparently.

Limit 1k, at 8 cents each which is a fair, if not great, price.

It's been that way the last 4 days? That's pretty good.

Not unless theres a change in the White House . The hoarders are still out there , very active with no end in sight.

Excellent.

More ammo in private citizen's hands.

 

[OilyPablo]

Get on the email lists for true low cost sellers. This is NEW METHOD of ammo shopping IMHO.

 

[wow6599]

Have ammo prices settled in to a new "normal"?

Yes, unless people stop buying it.

 

[JohnBiltz]

I bought 2k of 9mm brass cased fmj ammo for $450 earlier this week. So about 22 -23 cents a round. Its getting there.

 

[medalguy]

Brass cased 5.56 is about .30 a round and 7.62 x 51 is about .60 a round. These are the best prices I've seen in a loooong time.

 

[MagnunJoe]

If the new norm for plinking .22LR ammo is 8 cents a round or more, U can count me out! I will sell my 2 .22LR pistols (keep my S&W 15-22) and forget about all the BS. Life is too short.

 

[Warp]

If the new norm for plinking .22LR ammo is 8 cents a round or more, U can count me out! I will sell my 2 .22LR pistols (keep my S&W 15-22) and forget about all the BS. Life is too short.

Do you consider CCI SV or Mini Mags to be "plinking" ammo?

 

[Thermactor]

Brass cased 5.56 is about .30 a round and 7.62 x 51 is about .60 a round. These are the best prices I've seen in a loooong time.

When Wal-Mart marked down their ZQI 5.56 and 7.62 ammo from $14.95 to $9.98 it was to liquidate their stock. That's where we saw 5.56 at 33cpr and 7.62NATO at 50cpr. They also had that sale for 20 percent off one weekend.
I bought it all, or most of it But there wasn't much. Between three Walmarts, less than 1000 rounds worth.
The prices went back to $9.98 after the sale and warehouse stocks trickled their way back into the stores. The warehouses then got empty. Once that happened, they stopped putting the stuff on the shelf. The ZQI stuff is gone now from all the Walmarts I've seen. I think it stemmed from some spat with MKE. The Internet has lots of FUD on the issue, sort of 'my walmart employee friends manager's ex-girlfriend's ....' rumoring.

 

[Thermactor]

I bought 2k of 9mm brass cased fmj ammo for $450 earlier this week. So about 22 -23 cents a round. Its getting there.

Was that the GECO 124gr 9mm NATO load?

 

[Warp]

Was that the GECO 124gr 9mm NATO load?

The RWS Geco 124gr is listed as 124gr at 1181 FPS (360 meters/second). I think the NATO spec is above that, more like ~1,250 fps.

I kind of hope that wasn't what he got 2k of for $450, unless he is neglecting to mention sales tax or shipping or something. I bought 2k of that round recently and it was $246/1,000 to my door (Target Sports USA).

 

[ku4hx]

Ground beef is at all time highs as are most other food items. New vehicle prices seem ridiculous to me. My dry cleaner posted new, higher prices this morning. Lots of things are more expensive now than they were two or three years ago. I don't see why we would expect ammo to take a different path.

Same for chicken and eggs prices may be going up too. And movies prices kicked me out of that market several years ago.

But gasoline is getting cheaper and certain bullet makers (not ammunition) have been having some pretty good sales lately. Just got to keep up and buy in quantity when you can. I just paid a premium for powder. But even at what I paid, I'm charging a 9mm for under 3 cents so I'm happy.

Prices will stabilize sooner or later; my money is on it being at generally higher than before the hoarding started.

 

[JohnBiltz]

The RWS Geco 124gr is listed as 124gr at 1181 FPS (360 meters/second). I think the NATO spec is above that, more like ~1,250 fps.

I kind of hope that wasn't what he got 2k of for $450, unless he is neglecting to mention sales tax or shipping or something. I bought 2k of that round recently and it was $246/1,000 to my door (Target Sports USA).

It was Aguila. Which is pretty good ammo. Shipping was another $26. No tax.

 

[MagnunJoe]

No, for good a.22lr ammo I'm willing to go up to 10 cents per round. Hehehehehehehe

 

[Ignition Override]

Recent imports of Greek .303 "British" came into the US, allegedly directly from Greece (?). If it was direct, either that was the last of what they had, or this was a very unique situation.

Does anybody have any inside info on whether Greece or any other western Eurozone country is allowed to continue to export ammo to the US without any clear economic/political sanctions? Most of it is probably all gone, anyway?

We all know about eastern Europe, but how about west of the former Iron Curtain?

The Swiss are still mostly separate.