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How much do you spend a year on ammo?

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I said $1-200/yr because that's all I've spent in the last 6 or 7 years. I'm still shooting a stash of .22 and 9mm that I bought cheap. I probably could go 4 or 5 more years without buying any. The couple buys last year were 700 rds of 9mm ball and SD rds for $140, 300 .38 spl for $60 and 4 550 rd Wally boxes .22's for $100. I don't plan to buy any this year but my "garage sale guy" is always on the lookout for sporting goods that he can flip to me for a few bucks on same day. Joe
 
I think your poll should have per MONTH instead of year. I'd still be over $400 in that regard anyway. Tournaments mean factory ammo mandatory, and that gets expensive. let alone target costs.
 
Around $150 a month on .45 (1000 rounds), maybe $100 for .223 (2-300 rounds). That's what I shoot the most of and that is also at current replacement prices. I don't shoot all my guns on a regular basis like I do the .45 and .223. I don't really budget by cost for reloading/shooting, I budget what I take to the range.
 
Well...at 2-4 pounds of powder, primers, lead, dies, tumble media, rim fire ammo, shotgun ammo...depreciation on reloading tools...my allowance is 25 a month and I usually don't use it but rather stack it up in the safe until I make a run to one of the lgs that stock components. I have not bought center fire ammo at all in a year except for 1 bulk box of 9mm, and a package of LC 7.62 NATO that was a Christmas gift for a friend.
 
Seriously $400 a year as the highest figure? I spent more than that on small pistol primers from Graf's last month.
 
I just spent $280 on a Dillon order, not my first and definitely not my last this year. I really don't track what I spend reloading cause it probably wouldnt pencil out on paper. I enjoy it, that's all that matters to me
 
Factory ammo takes up very little of my shelf space...I'm not even sure I have one full box.

What I have is much better. Custom ammunition on demand for every caliber that I shoot.

The question that would make me cringe would be "what do you spend on reloading components per year?" The only good part of that answer would be "less than half of what you spend on factory ammo!"
 
I have spent more than $400 in a day on more than one incident last year!
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I didn't fork over the cash but I got to take part in a machine gun tryout with the owner of a local gun shop. He brought about $3500 worth of ammo to the range. We shot up all of it in about 2 hours. When you have 4 machine guns going pretty much as fast as we could load them it runs through a bunch of ammo really quick. And this was back in the 1990's when ammo was much cheaper. I'd guess it would have been about $10,000 worth of ammo with today's prices. There was a M-16, a HK MP5, some full auto .22 I didn't recognize and a 30 cal. M1919 Browning. We terrorized the neighborhood that day I tell you what. I still have a copy of the letters to the editor of the local paper complaining about the noise and those people lived at least half a mile away.

The truth is there are machine gun festivals (for lack of a better word) where it wouldn't be uncommon at all for someone with a .50 cal machine gun to go through several thousand dollars of ammo in a day. They generally charge people to fire their machine guns but still, it's entirely possible to shoot many thousands of dollars of ammo in a day. And there are people that can afford it. I'm not one of them but I can sure shoot up my share from time to time. I pretty much had my yard paved with .22 brass at one point but the rains have washed it all away by now. But shooting up a brick of ammo a day or more was not uncommon. Sometimes I would shoot 2 or more bricks in a day. Practice makes perfect and I wanted to get as good as I can be. I don't shoot that much now and I don't want to. But I did it for years. I'm not about to shoot 2 bricks a day at today's prices though. I bet I haven't shot a brick in the last year. I am hoping some sanity comes back to the world of .22 shooting.
 
Nowadays nothing really. I stocked up years ago, usually picking up some centerfire ammo and a brick of .22s whenever I went to Walmart. Whatever I couldn't find there I bought online.
 
I reload but when I see .22 or .17HMR on the shelf I'll pick up a couple boxes. Unfortunately it's not all that often.
 
I reload for a good portion of my calibers. Just for powder/bullets/primers and other random components I am well over $400 a year.

Plus, isn't $400 about what some people will pay for 4 boxes of Thunderbolt on gunbroker? :evil:
 
Thanks everyone. I realize that $400 might be on the low side but I did put over $400 for that purpose. This year is a good year for me on ammo purchases. Last two years I was lucky if I spent $500 on ammo total. Went through a divorce and money was tight. The wife I have now has no problem with my hobby. I even bought a gun for her for Christmas! Slowly buying ammo in calibers I was low on. Stocking up for 12 different calibers ain't easy!:D
 
I totaled up my order history from Cabelas, Palmetto, AIM, SGAmmo, Atlantic Tactical and I spent just under 7k last year. That doesn't count Wal-Mart or reloading supplies.
 
I had to chuckle. I just spent $403 just on powder yesterday from recobs. I think I have a serious problem.

Luckily, I have a wife who just smiled and told me she was happy that it made me happy.
 
I didn't vote because I don't buy ammo based on a budget that I track. Like others have said, I'd probably have a coronary if I did.

When I got my Colt 1991A1, way back in 1991, I could get jacketed reloads for $6 a box of 50 ($5 a box if I brought the brass back) at the LGS. Back then, and for many years afterwards, I would just buy ammo whenever I was on my way to shoot.

But since about 2000 or so, I changed my tactics and quit buying ammo like that. Now I buy a box or two of whatever I feel like whenever I go to Walmart (shortages not withstanding) and toss them into ammo cans by caliber. I pull from the ammo cans whenever I go shooting.

The end result is that I have a standing supply adequate to meet my needs and which is routinely replenished a box or two here and there. So I don't feel it out of my wallet nearly so much. I still have several boxes of 100 round WWB I bought at $9.95 for 9mm and $19.95 for .45 ACP.

I guess I shoulda auctioned those off on Gunbroker last summer...

;)
 
Must be an oddball ruleset. I'm not aware of any of the major shooting sports that require factory ammo
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Seems you must be thinking only about metallic - when you shoot tournament shotgun , most mandate factory to prevent folks from reloading illegal loads
 
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Seems you must be thinking only about metallic - when you shoot tournament shotgun , most mandate factory to prevent folks from reloading illegal loads
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You're right - all my experience is with metallic, though I must admit the shotgun guys that I know shoot so much reloads that I would have never figured it wasn't allowed in an actual tournament.
 
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