Rifle Ammo..what's the most outrageous priced ammo that you have seen?

[Redlg155]

Ok guys..anyone know what is the most expensive rifle ammo out there? Anything above .50 cal does not qualify, so don't list a rifled sabot round for the M1 Abrams!

So far Garrett seems pretty hefty.
GARRETT'S 45-70 EXITER AMMO
$180 / 20 CTGS
500-GRAIN SPEER TUNGSTEN SOLID AT 1530-FPS

FOR USE ONLY IN MODERN WINCHESTER, BROWNING, AND MARLIN REPEATING RIFLES.
ENERGY: 2600 FT/LBS; TAYLOR KNOCKOUT VALUE: 50; MEPLAT: .235"; CHAMBER PRESSURE: 35,000-CUP; SMALL-PRIMER; CCI 41 MILITARY-SPEC PRIMER; CUSTOM SMALL PRIMER POCKETED NICKEL-PLATED STARLINE BRASS; TRAJECTORY: +1.5" @ 50-YDS, ZERO @ 100-YDS, -6" @ 150-YDS

Only $9.00 a shot!

However NIOA Trading only wants $192.20 for the WEATHERBY.460 500GR SP ammunition. $9.61 a shot!

Anyone else know of crazy prices?

Good Shooting
Red

 

[cracked butt]

At a gunshow I've seen a table with turk 8mm on strippers for $5 per stripper of ammo. That's only about a 15,000% markup.


Any surplus ammo sold at Dunham's.

 

[meathammer]

Personally, I was with my buddy when he purchased a box of shells (20) for his Weatherby .30-378. I believe he paid around $80.00. Ouch! (He did let me shoot it though, BOOOOM! )

--meathammer

 

[RevDisk]

Saw a gun store that was selling Wolf 7.62x39mm for $5 a box.

 

[Risasi]

Yeah 30-378 is expensive

I can confirm what meathammer says. $80-$85 for a box of 20. That is if you can find a place that stocks 30-378.
Still $9 for some glorified 45-70. That's insane...

 

[Third_Rail]

I'd have to say 4-bore rifle ammo. Each round is about $150, last time I checked.

 

[captain obvious]

Dunhams prices (especially on .30 carbine) aren't too bad here - it's that they make you fill out a form with your name and address and record your driver's license number when you buy ammo there.

Hence was the reason the scene I made the last time I visited a Dunhams (they don't seem to recognize that ammo in WV is NOT serial number marked) and why I have yet to purchase any ammo, or anything else there since I learned that.

 

[Sharps Shooter]

This probably shouldn't count either because it's obsolete, but loaded ammo for my 45-110 Sharps costs $94.99 per box of 20 from Cabelas. Other than that, I too have a buddy who has a .30-378 Weatherby. I was with him when he bought 5 boxes of ammo for it because the ammo was on sale - it was being closed out. If I remember right, my buddy wrote out a check for almost $300.00!

 

[cracked butt]

Dunhams prices (especially on .30 carbine) aren't too bad here - it's that they make you fill out a form with your name and address and record your driver's license number when you buy ammo there.

Yup, the idiot form that has to be filled out.

Prices at local dunhams-

10 round box of 7.5x55 $9.99
Turk bandoliers (70 rd) 9.99
Albanian 7.62x54r (20 rd paper wrapped) $5.99
Czech 7.62x54R (20 rds) $9.99
Portugese 7.62 Nato (200 rd can) $60
20 rd box of S&B .303 $20



Highway robbery.

 

[anapex]

The most expensive that I've seen and held is probably the .450 Dakota, only $15 a round.

 

[Stickjockey]

Norma 6.5X55 Swedish @ $56.00/20.

 

[jefnvk]

.700 NE, IIRC something like $500 for 5 rounds.

 

[Guns_and_Labs]

.416 Meteor, $139/20, direct from the Lazzeroni factory.

 

[SoundWave]

I was about to mention .700 NE, it is most certianly extremely expensive, .600 NE is no better.

 

[P95Carry]

GARRETT'S 45-70 EXITER AMMO $180 / 20 CTGS

Incredible!!! OK tungsten but heck, $9 a pop.!! My equivalent power load for Ruger #1 - with admittedly just a Lasercast 405 in Starline brass must only cost me 30c or so max.!!

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

At the Tulsa Gun Show, I think it was .600 Nitro Express.

$192.00 per box of TEN. Or $20.00 per individual round.

 

[RTFM]

$14.95
7.62X54R
20 round box
Sportsman's warehouse "Hunting Ammo"

 

[Ifishsum]

.300 Weatherby Magnum, $80-85/box of 20

 

[ALASKACAJUN]

.416 Rem, $115/20 Rounds...

 

[RRTX]

.700 NE, IIRC something like $500 for 5 rounds.

You can get it from Midway for only $364.95 for 5 lol

 

[Soap]

Can anyone say 20mm?

 

[Cacique500]

Wow...and to think I bitch when wolf 7.62x39 goes above $0.10/round...

 

[jeff-10]

I am not cheap by any means but I cannot imagine owing a .30-378 Weatherby without reloading for it.

 

[nyresq]

the nitro express rounds are about the most expensive I've seen.
went into a gun store in alaska in 2004 and they had several different nitro calibers, they were all about $40-$60 a pop... the store owner told me he only sells about 100 rounds a year to a few of the professional guides in the area.

and I thought 7mm mag was expensive at $1.50 a pop


BANG..$50... BANG...$100... BANG... $150... BANG.....$200... ouch

a day at the range could cost you a weeks pay...

 

[Kalashnikov]

A day at the range could cost you a weeks pay

Sometimes it does even with wolf ammo