Ammunition. The new currency.

How much is that in oil?

How much is that in baby blood?

So, who here thinks that the arms manufacturers secretly give lots of money to Democrats?

The Cooper Arms guy foolishly supported Obama in public, but it sure seems like Democrats are good for their business.

Bruce Banner wrote: So, who here thinks that the arms manufacturers secretly give lots of money to Democrats? The Cooper Arms guy foolishly supported Obama in public, but it sure seems like Democrats are good for their business.

Bruce,

the price of ammo has been going up steadily the last 3 years, material to make bullets in high demand (copper and brass), ammunition production being diverted to the military, now panic buying has had a huge impact to the price as well.

PMC was 3.50 a box of 20 rounds a month ago.

tallen702 wrote: Actually, some steel casings are now boxer primed, so it's not even an extra step anymore Andy. Depends on the company though.

I wouldn't really know that. All the steel case Ive seen is either Czech surplus or wolf that somebody illegally imported since it has not been approved for use in Canada yet...

Really?   Me and the guys I shoot with have fired nearly 10,000 rounds of assorted Wolf ammunition in three different calibers.  No problems.  You know, you should clean your firearm every 500 to 1000 rounds anyway.  Wolf is fine.

Ouch. Being a poor college student I haven't been buying ammo often(well, a box or two of those $3.00 per round sabot slugs) in the past few years. I thought it had come down a bit from a year or two ago. For a while there you couldn't get Wolf X39. We used to have a mini-14 that didn't like Wolf. The red laquer would gum up the firing pin and I'd get weak hits on the primer. I probably still have a few hundred rounds kicking around, mostly 55 grain FMJ with a few 62gr and 55 gr HP's since I was hoping to build an AR one day. It's Wolf, winchester white box and PMC.

PMC 6.5X55 used to be about $12 per 20. If 5.56 is like that today, ouch.

A while ago I picked up some Hansen Ammunition from Yugoslavia, but the cases appear to be IMI. It's lead core with a copper jacket and my SKS seems to shoot it significantly better than wolf or any other surplus. The price was competative, but I haven't seen it since.

Boo hoo, poor little bank accounts. $7 for a box of .223.

Here it runs at $25.

True this is for S&B boxer primed 55grain FMJ, but that's all that's on the shelves.

And not even for long.

KBK

"Cheap" ammo isn't even that cheap anymore. 7.62x54R is running $80/440 for the cheap combloc surplus. What's worse is that it's all steel core which means an hour drive for me to get to a range that will let me shoot it (outdoor).