Cheap Ammo
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chris downs
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Underneath the sticker was $1.46 so it was a nice sale!
I used to buy the Remington Golden Boy 525 round box at my local hardware store for $6.99 but I can't get it anymore because that store closed.
So as the last panic when the .22s price went through the roof I bought up a bunch of rounds that no one wanted the price of these was at the time less than the .22s per round. I bought most of this 5.45x39 ammo for less than $0.09 cents per round.
Each spam can has 1080 rounds in it & each case has two spam cans, so that's 17,280 rounds not including the 750 rounds in the cardboard box on top.
Total cost I paid was about $1555.20 what the stack is worth at todays prices, $17,280.00 or more since these can not be imported anymore, probably worth more.
So as the last panic when the .22s price went through the roof I bought up a bunch of rounds that no one wanted the price of these was at the time less than the .22s per round. I bought most of this 5.45x39 ammo for less than $0.09 cents per round.
Each spam can has 1080 rounds in it & each case has two spam cans, so that's 17,280 rounds not including the 750 rounds in the cardboard box on top.
Total cost I paid was about $1555.20 what the stack is worth at todays prices, $17,280.00 or more since these can not be imported anymore, probably worth more.
I used to goto the gun shows in Fort Worth in the late 90's & buy 1x commercial reloads for $100/1000...9mm, 40 S&W or 5.56...& I could chose FMJ or SP's. I was buying 1440 rnd cases of the good Russian 7.62x39 HP's for $100. At the same time, until the mid 2000's I could buy Federal bulk packs of 22 HP's of 525 rnds for $8.88 at Wal-Mart. Dang I wished I would have bought & stored a warehouse full...but I didn't.
Last night I found a brick off CCI SPP primers that a friend gave me that his father had. They had a date hand written on them of January 1986...price tag said $7.69. Days gone by...never to be repeated.
Last night I found a brick off CCI SPP primers that a friend gave me that his father had. They had a date hand written on them of January 1986...price tag said $7.69. Days gone by...never to be repeated.
During the 80s and 90s Bi-Mart monthly coupon books always had .22s, Remington Golden Bullet or Vipers limit 2 bricks at coupon price which was $7.99 going up to $9.99 by the later 90s.
In addition to my shooting supply I bought a couple bricks each month anticipating the time my kids would start eating their way through my ammo stash. Turns out they didn't get it all and I still have around 10,000 left.
BTW, 5,000 rounds in 50 rnd boxes fits just perfect in a USGI .50 cal ammo can!
In addition to my shooting supply I bought a couple bricks each month anticipating the time my kids would start eating their way through my ammo stash. Turns out they didn't get it all and I still have around 10,000 left.
BTW, 5,000 rounds in 50 rnd boxes fits just perfect in a USGI .50 cal ammo can!
BTW, 5,000 rounds in 50 rnd boxes fits just perfect in a USGI .50 cal ammo can!
Yeh, but try carrying it very far!
I have enough problems with .30 cal ammo cans not even full of .22LR.
I still have a few CCI blazer bricks I bought for under 10$ probably 15 yrs ago.
Geezerbiker
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I have some American Eagle .22 ammo that I got on sale for $2 a brick of 400 rounds but to be fair that was a killer deal at the time...
I have a 16 pound keg of Red Dot (mostly used up now) that's labeled $56. That had to be a long time ago...
Tony
I have a 16 pound keg of Red Dot (mostly used up now) that's labeled $56. That had to be a long time ago...
Tony
Back about 2002 the bulk Dynapoints were 9.87 or so at WM. I have a couple that grandkids will get when they arrive this summer.
I stocked up and told the clerk I had to take scout troop to the range for merit badges, 10 scouts-so many rounds and oh yes two trips so how many boxes do I need.
He sold me several to cover the trips. I guess I over estimated pr some scouts didnt show.
I stocked up and told the clerk I had to take scout troop to the range for merit badges, 10 scouts-so many rounds and oh yes two trips so how many boxes do I need.
He sold me several to cover the trips. I guess I over estimated pr some scouts didnt show.