THR Project: Ammo prices through the years correlated to gold, Dow, euro, etc.

[jlbraun]

THR members, I need your help! In order to see what financial variables ammo prices correlate with, I would like your help.

Some of you have posted comments similar to "I'm still shooting the cases I got of 7.62x39 I bought in 1980 for 25 cents a box!"

So.

When did you buy the ammo, what type is it, and any other comments (brass cased, steel cased, something else that would make it more or less expensive).

Example: "In 2005 I bought 1000 rounds of Wolf steel cased 7.62x39 FMJ for $169."

When I get to 10 data points for a given caliber, I'll post charts and correlations. No limit on how far back you bought it.

Of interest:
7.62x39
9mm
.223
.308
.45

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

Someone has done something similar on AR15.com
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=16&t=276761

 

[jlbraun]

I understand that, I was looking to go back further than 2 years.

 

[1 old 0311]

I have boxes I bought in the 80's. I will dig them out and post prices.

 

[jlbraun]

On another note, the restaurant I go to for lunch has an ad for Winchester .45-70 for something like 12 cents a round back in 1870.

 

[Red State]

Used to buy .223 for 2.99 per box in 1998. That was Remington/UMC which is pretty decent stuff for range work. The store was a regional discount chain similar to walmart.

 

[BADUNAME13]

7.62x39: Untill 2 years ago I would NOT buy a case if it was over $75 for the case (Russian)

9mm: Under $4 per box from 2000- a year and a half ago

.223: Don't know, The Corps buys all mine (I don't own an AR... hate them)

.308: Less than 4 years ago I was paying $135 delivered for German (Hert.) .308,
14 months ago I paid less than $21 per battlepack for 15 cases of South African

.45: This has actually gone up the LEAST, WWB $9 a box for quite a few years.


-Before 2000 I got people to buy me ammo, or bought by the case at Gunshows... (If you are wearing a USMC T-shirt, look old enough, have a holstered pistol on, and are spending >$400 people don't ask for ID/your age...)

 

[enfield]

In '01 I bought several battlepacks of .308 SA for $35 each. In the 80's, Federal and Winchester .22 ammo was about $10/brick at K-Mart -- I'm still shooting some that I bought back then. Most of my ammo doesn't have price tags on it.

 

[James T Thomas]

mathematical abstraction

Be cautious with your conclusions about the correlation coefficient!

Ammo prices may vary with sun spots, yes, but that does not imply that there is a direct relationship.