Grizz
Well-Known Member
So what do you guys think of the ammo prices lately!? Do you think the prices will ever go down? I tend to think once prices have rose on ammo they stay there but this is getting ridicules!
Prices will come back down when the supply and demand rebalance. However, I doubt the prices will ever be what they were. It'll be same as what happened in the past...prices came down but never to the level they were prior to the runs. Just ratches up more each time there is a big run.
I was looking at getting a 2022 but never did. That isn't a bad price for the ammo through. Not great but not bad especially for the past month.
I picked up 4 boxes of Magtech .9mm yesterday for $12.99/per. Not bad especially for NY, and the prices haven't gone up since I started getting them two years ago. .22LR is another story all together. I managed to find some a couple of weeks ago, picked up two 500 bricks of Remington high velocity (it was either that or CCI Quiet LV rounds) for $37.99/per. Not what I wanted to spend, but that's all I could find. Now I can't find any .22LR anywhere.
Thankfully I picked up a 500 of .22LR through a friend a few weeks back. Hunting wise, I'm good for a LOOOONG time. Shotgun rounds still seem easy to get, so I picked up a case of them from Cabela's just to be safe. Now finding .30 Carbine for my new M1, that's been a *****! I'm hoping to score some at a gun show on saturday.
I wonder why there has been a run on 22 longs though. It pretty much is a plinking round and not viewed so much as a defensive round.
Hmm though while I was typing this I remembered that during Vietnam SF people used a silenced 22 long to kill the dogs in the camp. They called them hush puppies
And freakin range fees. Jeez. We used to go out to the woods, but we don't live there any more. And the ranges here are always so busy. Best go early and during the week.
And freakin range fees. Jeez. We used to go out to the woods, but we don't live there any more. And the ranges here are always so busy. Best go early and during the week.
I am dang lucky that I have a 100 yrd range out my back door and a 1 mile range set up just down the road. I do not have to go to a range
Right there with you.
My parents have 25 acres I can shoot on anytime and my inlaws have 300 acres of beef farm that I could shoot off artillery shells on and no one would call the cops. I can get to either location in 15 minutes. Yay for country living!
Because there is a run on ammo because people are afraid it is all going to be illegal and .22 is cheap as **** so people can afford to load up on it. That and many people probably go through much more of it than any other round.
Picked up an SP2022 in .40 S&W yesterday. Guy behind the counter said he had bulk .40 ammo - 650 rounds for $220. Good price in today's world? Doesn't matter, I spent all my free cash on the pistol.
The SP2022 was my second choice. I was really after an SR40, but you can't find those for nothing around here. Looked around before Christmas and they were everywhere. After the New Year - gone.
Still, the 2022 is a nice pistol. Haven't been to the range yet, but my first impressions are very positive. Nice smooth and consistant double action trigger pull, nice clean single action break. There's a little trigger creep. Good fit for my hand in the grip. Best of all, it conceals perfect in all my carhart jackets, light and heavy. Summer will present a new challenge...
As far as ammo prices go, I guess right now the best price is the one you pay just to get some.
After you shoot it let me know how it is. I've been looking for a poly 9mm or 40 and the 2022 is getting pretty high on my short list. I'm between the 2022, FNP or the Px4. All 3 seem to fit well in my hand when I hold them (unlike every Glock I've held) The 2022 I've seen on sale for about half the cost of a FNP, so I really like that as well.
There is a range near me that is pretty nice. Nothing special but not crap either. Its $10 all day. They have 100 yard rifle, 50 hand gun, and two shotgun stations (you have to bring your own thrower). That isn't bad at all, to me.
I wonder why there has been a run on 22 longs though. It pretty much is a plinking round and not viewed so much as a defensive round.
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