I've been getting some great deals on ammo!

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Just doing a little bragging. About a month ago I bought some Federal Automatch ammo (the 325 bulk box) at Scheel's for $5.99. I don't know if they were miss priced but they sold all six boxes of them to me for the listed price. They only had six boxes priced at that price the rest of them were priced at $15.99.

Then today I went to Orchlands farm supply in a small town and they had CCI Stingers for $4.99. I bought all four boxes (50 rounds per box) and I don't even shot them but around here the cheepest I have seen them for was $6.99, so I thought I better get them.

So keep an eye out there are still good deals around.
 
$319.99 locally

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Nice, make sure you clean your rifle I think those may be corrosive.
 
I just bought two bricks of federal champion .22lr at $11.90 a brick. This is not bulk ammo it is the ammo that is packed in 50 round boxes. Picked these up at K-Mart.
 
That's pretty cheap Clint. We don't have any K-marts anymore. Wally world only sells the bulk. Saw some Win 500 rd at $15.99 Rem 550 box was $16.49. But cheapest plinking ammo we will probably ever see again.
 
I just picked up 1000 rounds of surplus 30-06 for $280 shipped to my front door. I don't think I'll ever find something like that again.
 
Two weeks ago I bought a 450 rounds of '70s vintage Radway Green 7.62x51 (on strippers in bandoleers) for $160 at a gun shop :)

Three weeks ago bought a bunch of Greek 7.62x54r at $5 a box.... despite it's poor reputation it will hit an 8" gong at 100 yards every time, it's non corrosive and so far has always gone bang.

Hard to consider $319.99 a good deal for corrosive 7.62x39, the Academy Sports stores here in Texas (and across the south) have new noncorrosive Barnaul for roughly the same price. Would have bought some yesterday but I still have some left over from last November when they were blowing it out for $150/1000 :D
 
how can you tell if ammo is corrosive or not?
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While I'd consider ALL surplus ammo from the old Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries to be corrosive, there is a positive way to be sure.

Take a small steel plate and polish a spot a few inches across on it. Remove the bullet from the cartridge you want to test and dump the powder. Then load the empty case in your gun and with the muzzle a couple of inches from the steel plate, fire the primer. (Clean the gun immediately.) Allow the plate to sit overnight and check for rust the next day. Corrosive primers will rust the plate pretty good. (The more humidity in the air, the faster it will rust.) Non-corrosive primers won't rust the plate.
 
Got some Remington 10mm 180gr 50ct boxes the other week for 19.99, and no tax. About 2 months ago I got some CCI Blazer 10mm for 15.00 out the door at a pawn shop.
 
My local Wal-Mart had Federal 150gr .308 for 13.97 a box this evening.... not a great deal compared to the good old days of cheap surplus but it seemed like a reasonable price with the way things have been lately.
 
Three weeks ago bought a bunch of Greek 7.62x54r at $5 a box.... despite it's poor reputation it will hit an 8" gong at 100 yards every time, it's non corrosive and so far has always gone bang.
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You sure?

I thought all 7.62x54R ammo was corrosive.
 
I thought all 7.62x54R ammo was corrosive.
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Definitely not the case..... There is Prvi Partizan, Wolf, Barnaul, Hotshot and Winchester metric that is noncorrosive. I read up on the Greek Olympic to be sure it wasn't corrosive before buying it. I first shot it a few weeks ago through my Dragunov Tigr and haven't ever cleaned and there are no signs of rust.
 
My local Wal-Mart had Federal 150gr .308 for 13.97 a box this evening.... not a great deal compared to the good old days of cheap surplus but it seemed like a reasonable price with the way things have been lately.
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Yep I found some Federal 150 grain 30-06 ammo for that price too and picked up a few. They had 30-06 in 150 grain and in 180 grain but I shoot 150. They also had 7mm right next to it and I'm not sure if they had one other caliber or not.

I've been looking for months occasionally checking in and they have always been sold out. This has been for months. I'd picked up a few boxes at a gun show for $18 and tested it but I'd shot a lot of it up just target shooting so I was glad to find a bit more. I wish I had bought all 6 boxes they had but I didn't. Oh well. It's not the Wal-Mart near the house it's a few towns away so I don't want to drive back for just ammo.

This is the best price I've found for this ammo including online. Online the cheapest I've seen it is $15 something on Natchezss.com and the title says it's this but the description says something different and the picture is of a different ammo so I'm not sure what you actually get then you have to pay shipping on top of the $15.
 
Scheel's has some 30-06 priced at $14.99 a box, for Federal champion.

Kmart has a whole stock pile of (I think) Winchester 30-06 but it was more around $20.00-$22.00.
 
Just bought 1000 Remington 9 1/2 large rifle primers for $26.99 at Scheel's. Not a great deal, but a fair and honest deal.
 
despite it's poor reputation it will hit an 8" gong at 100 yards every time
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Everyone has different standards, however that is not really setting the bar very high for a rifle of any type. 8moa accuracy claims do not really do much to dispute the poor reputation for accuracy.
 
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