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 Topic: .303B ammunitionPosted: February 05 2023 at 8:37pm |
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My local gun store has fresh stock of PPU .303B ammunition in 150Gr SP and 174Gr FMJ. 150SP costs $44.95 a box and 174 FMJ at $49.95. Canadian dollars and on the west coast. 30 boxes of each. What are your prices like for factory ammunition in your area these days? (Assuming there is any available).
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Posted: February 06 2023 at 4:12am |
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Seems to be running $23 - $25 per box of 20 in the US. Midway a bit more.
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Posted: February 06 2023 at 4:21am |
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Same price here in Ontario, pre covid I was paying $28/20rnds, now its well over $50 with tax. What a lot of folks is calling greed-flation. Seems to be the norm on just about everything we buy now-a-days.
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Posted: February 06 2023 at 5:32am |
That's what I have been seeing lately.
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Posted: February 06 2023 at 6:37am |
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My last batch of "Store Bought" 303 British ammunition was well over 5 years ago when I purchased 10 boxes of Herter's Brand 303B because they were on sale for $9.99 a box.
I have been buying those WWII Winchester rounds from this guy on Gunbroker for $25 bucks a box but, I'm just doing that to source the New and Unfired brass...
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Posted: February 06 2023 at 12:36pm |
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I don’t think I’ve ever bought any commercial .303 ammunition. I have bought some HXP and PMP surplus Mk VIIz, I think it was around $0.30/round at the time, that was over 20 years ago.
I have bought a fair bit of .30-06 commercial ammo loaded for the M1 rifle (S&B and PPU), and a lot of HXP M2 ball surplus about 6 or 7 years ago when it was under 70 cents a round. Probably more than I will ever use. I figure I’ll break into this when the zombie apocalypse starts  .As they used to say, “By ‘em cheap and stack ‘em deep”. The days of the first part of that saying are gone forever I’m afraid… |
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Posted: February 20 2023 at 3:21pm |
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With the cost of ammo increasing, and having to trim costs, I took up reloading. reusing the brass, the per-round cost is less than 50 cents. Using cast bullets about 25 cents.
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Posted: April 06 2023 at 12:29pm |
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I've been reloading .303 British since the Eighties so I'm a little out of touch with current prices but I can tell you the last box of 100 LeHigh 180 gr. Target Solids set me back almost $60.00 usd. I stay in touch with my Canadian friends on FascistBuch and they were posting pics of boxes of .303 British at Cambodian Tire (Canadians will know what I mean) for $75.00C a few months ago.
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Posted: April 07 2023 at 2:11am |
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I load 303, my pet load is 38,5 gr of 4064 or varget for plinking at the range. Current local pricing for components is, Varget/4064-$99.95/lb, Hornady 150grn fbsp-$65.95/100 count, lrg rifle primer-$250/1000. So 1 lb of powder is roughly 7000grns so 181 rnds per lbs, or .62 cents/round primers are .283 cents/round Bullets are @ .75 cents per round This cost includes 13% sales tax. The cost per round for me if I was refreshing with new current pricing is $1.65/round Cnd. With the old stock I currently have, the cost is around .95 cents/round. The last box or Rem 180gr 303 I saw was $55.94 taxes in at a local gun shop, Canadian tire is price gouging for sure. So ya its still a little cheaper to reload, but here in Canukistan that gap is quickly closing, pretty much becoming a rich mans sport. Then if you really want to see price gouging try buying 303 ammo at local gun shows here, last fall the average was around $75/20 or higher, with higher end brands stretching to north of $100/20
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Posted: April 07 2023 at 1:37pm |
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Wow, those are some crazy prices for reloading components! Right about 2X what we pay in the US. Why is that??
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Posted: April 07 2023 at 1:52pm |
Ukraine is the commonest answer in the UK regarding reloading shortages and high prices, I was told on Tuesday that CCI have enough military contracts to last ten years, how true that statement is I really have no idea. In the meantime primers (Fiocchi) are being rationed in the NRA shop at Bisley to 300 per customer.
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Posted: April 07 2023 at 3:40pm |
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Yes, but the US is pouring billions of rounds of ammunition into Ukraine. So why are the prices here 50% compared to the rest of the “free world”? I’d expect the opposite…
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Posted: April 08 2023 at 2:47am |
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Because that`s the way retail has always been in Canada, 2-3x higher than US prices. Even when our $ was par or higher, The Greatest rip-off of all times. I remember being told it was because our population was so small therefore the cost of goods is higher, biggest crock of shyt I`ve ever heard. Canada is just plan unaffordable. The US refines most of our oil to gas, our oil, and yet we pay world prices at the pump, we should be paying nada, $6.75/gal for regular, 94oct is $10/gal, boats staying in the garage this yr...
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Posted: April 11 2023 at 8:00pm |
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The last factory .303 soft-point I bought was three boxes of Remington 180 gr for $19.99/20. Been a few years since then (30?). Still reloading the brass; which just goes to show that I need to hunt more with my No. 4.
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Posted: April 12 2023 at 10:28am |
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Yep I remember the "Twenty bucks for twenty rounds" pricing from the 80's
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Posted: April 13 2023 at 1:52am |
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Unfortunately, things are going to get worse before they get better, at least for us .311" caliber shooters. LeHigh has stopped production of their 180 gr. target solid as has Sierra with their 174 gr. Match King. I contacted the Sierra corporate office recently with a plea to resume production and was told that it was under consideration. Every year around this time they plan the next year's production and are aware of the pent up demand for .311" bullets, especially their Match Kings but no promises were made. It looks like Hornady has stopped production of their 150 gr. SST also. I've been snapping up everything I can find on the interweb and gun auction sites since I'm retiring in a little over a year and plan to spend my retirement years on the rifle range. Fortunately I'm in a good financial position and can afford the premiums people are charging but I feel for those who can't. I remember when money was tight as I raised 3 kids and gazed longingly at the stuff I couldn't afford.
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