Price trends for Russian-made x39 etc.

[Ignition Override]

How much lower will prices go for Wolf etc in this caliber, along with .223 etc?

"AIMsurplus" sold 1,000 rds. of x39 for $200 last wee, and many shooter might not be aware of such a downward trend.

My ammo supply will last for quite a while, but in order to learn more about various supply/demand, political, dollar versus ruble, (shipping) fuel cost factors, am requesting info on how the connections between these will change.

It is obvious that the buying panic has cooled off (except for some handgun ammo), and very weak job growth has slowed or crippled spending.
There was very little buying at our gun shows last spring, despite the many sellers' claims of the government's urgent plans to further regulate or tax guns, ammo.
Such sellers' claims even then appeared to 'hold little water', after the White House quickly silenced Attorney General Eric Holder, being caught off guard by his brief comment about "assault rifles", regarding the flow of guns to Mexican gangs.

 

[Mr. Bojangles]

$200 seems for 1k rounds semms awfully cheap to me. I would be suprised to see it go any lower. Never hurts to dream, though.

 

[wally]

Since a little over two years ago I was buying Wolf at $89/1000 there is still plenty of room to sink lower.

In last Sunday's paper, Academy had Monarch steel cased .223 on sale for $200/1000 ($3.99 a box limit 20) but they didn't enforce the limit and has still had several cases yesterday. In past months a sale of the same ammo at $5.69 a box was sold out by time I got there on Tuesday.

So I think the panic appetite has calmed down. I'd stocked up two years ago, literally storing as much as I had space for, so I'm glad to see some signs of normalcy as I'm starting to need to buy ammo again, especially in my popular calibers like .223, 7.62x39 and.22LR, I reload for my handguns and still have plenty of primers on hand.

--wally.