The new math.

[HaveGun]

Found 9mm ammo for sale at the LGS and bought a couple of boxes. $11.99 for Remington UMC 115gr RN plinking ammo. 50 rounds, so $.24 per round.

Small pistol primers are impossible to find. Unobtanium. The only ones I've heard of for sale around here were at a gun show at $120 per 1000, or $.12 per primer.

9mm bullets and cases are similarly difficult to find. So, using Gunbroker...

Used brass is going for about $.10 per case and bullets are about $.10 each.

Powder is about $45 per pound, so $45 per 7000 grains, and a target load of 9mm using 115 grain bullets is about 4.5 grains, so powder cost per round is $.03.

Therefore, for a person to create a reloaded target round of 9mm will cost them $.35 per round. To buy that same round already loaded locally is $.24 per round.

Crazy! Never thought I'd see the costs reversed.

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[Knobgoblin]

Not everyone is getting store bought ammo, or if so not at that (decent) price.
Regularly seeing .70 per round for cheapo 115gr ball 9mm at stores..
And it sells too.

 

[Member 34319]

At $0.12 a primer and having powder and bullets already. I'm still less expensive.

Buying components to load right now isn't the greatest.

 

[slimmer13]

I would just consider $120/1k for primers the same as out of stock. Some shops are getting them in and selling them at normal prices, you just have to hit it right or they are gone. Some preparedness means being able to wait until you find things at more normal prices.

Since December, I've found SP, LR, SR at around $30/1K, plenty of HP38 and a single lonely lb of H4350 for around $30-$34/lb. I bought a big pile of 9mm projectiles online for around 8c ea.

I usually check a couple shops once a week.

It's still worth it to reload if you have some time and patience.

 

[Caveman Jim]

The only 9mm I saw was 115g Remington at Cabelas last month and it was $17.99 for 50 rounds so just shy of $.35 a round... I bought 6 boxes to hand out to some of those less fortunate here locally.
I don't even have a 9mm.....

 

[gmerkt]

These days when I drop a single primer on the floor, I pick it up.

 

[Caveman Jim]

These days when I drop a single primer on the floor, I pick it up.

Same here!!! Good Lawdy they expensive...
Heck I even vacuum after every operation in "the Room" so they won't get contaminated..

 

[Josh89]

I haven't really bought much since prices went up. Still loading 9mm for 10 cents And 357 for about 15. Don't plan on buying any till supply comes back and prices go down. I should be good with the old math for a few years.

 

[romulus]

Came here looking for Orwellian posts, disappointed.

 

[P7M13]

Came here looking for Orwellian posts, disappointed.

Here, does this help ??

 

[Knobgoblin]

Okey dokey

 

[Certaindeaf]

Came here looking for Orwellian posts, disappointed.

3 legs best!

 

[Pepe-lepew]

Must be common core math where apples plus oranges equals cherries.

 

[romulus]

Okey dokey View attachment 828659View attachment 828660

I gotta get the first one framed!


@HaveGun Sorry to hijack your post.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Must be common core math where apples plus oranges equals cherries.

Yeah, It's sad that nowadays with all the technology that we have that TPTB decided that math is too hard for our modern children so they had to go and screw it all up and make them dumber in the process.

 

[Stomper]

3 legs best!

That's what she said!

 

[Camelfilter]

Found 9mm ammo for sale at the LGS and bought a couple of boxes. $11.99 for Remington UMC 115gr RN plinking ammo. 50 rounds, so $.24 per round.

Small pistol primers are impossible to find. Unobtanium. The only ones I've heard of for sale around here were at a gun show at $120 per 1000, or $.12 per primer.

9mm bullets and cases are similarly difficult to find. So, using Gunbroker...

Used brass is going for about $.10 per case and bullets are about $.10 each.

Powder is about $45 per pound, so $45 per 7000 grains, and a target load of 9mm using 115 grain bullets is about 4.5 grains, so powder cost per round is $.03.

Therefore, for a person to create a reloaded target round of 9mm will cost them $.35 per round. To buy that same round already loaded locally is $.24 per round.

Crazy! Never thought I'd see the costs reversed.

Problem is for folks whom wish to shoot a bunch, yet hadn't stocked up for whatever reasons. The reasons do not matter, as there is no way back machine...

From what I'm gathering from on here, shops all have limited sales. Sounds like 2 boxes as the norm.

So no one seems able to purchase manufactured in quantity at the moment.

For someone whom doesn't want to, or can't wait in lines all day, reloading at today's exorbitant pricing would be the only way to shoot. Or pay even higher exorbitant price for case quantity, if it can be sourced reliably.

 

[HaveGun]

Yeah, the case prices on GB are insane with most 9mm and .40 S&W at $.80 to $1.00 a round. I remember a guy at work boasting about getting a case of Speer Lawman 9mm for $170 a couple of years ago. I remember thinking I would never spend that much money on ammo at a time. Doh.

 

[USMC1911]

So is 2=1 and 1=none still good at least?

 

[Knobgoblin]

So is 2=1 and 1=none still good at least?

My waist is 36" but 38 feels so good that I buy 40s.

Don't stand when you can sit, and why sit if you can lay down.