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.

That's what I have been seeing lately.

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...

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…

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

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. 

 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...

which reminds me i need to make a list of what i once [but no longer ] owned just so i dont forget , ive already forgotten the nomenclature for my swiss rifles , i can remember my US collection well both rifles and handguns but id like to have a reference for the upcoming ears if i can so i can at least talk of them if the opportunity arises 

gettin old aint for sissys 

This is the most accurate and detailed explanation.

The very first time I saw .303 referred to as 7.7mm was on some South African surplus bought some twenty plus years ago. The ammo was heavily varnished and didn't shoot well at all; if you broke the varnish seal between bullet and case it improved considerably.

...and to further confuse you...

The .30-06 Springfield is an American-designed cartridge, and most (but not all) cartridges originating in the United States use groove measurements (which are larger than land measurements) when measuring bullet diameter. So, even though the bore of the rifle (measured across the lands) is .30", the actual bullet diameter is .308" because the bullet must closely match the groove diameter (.308" in a .30-06) in order to form a good seal in the barrel.

To make things even more confusing, most cartridges designed in other countries use land measurements. Take the 7.62x39 mm cartridge used by the AK-47 as an example. At first glance, it would appear to use a bullet with the same diameter as the .30-06 Springfield, since they are both 7.62 mm cartridges.

However, the 7.62x39 mm cartridge (designed in the Soviet Union), measures bullet diameter using land measurements instead of groove measurements. Because of this, the groove measurement (and the actual diameter of the bullet) is .312" (7.92 mm) instead of .308" (7.62 mm), a difference of .004".

However, .004" is a significant difference when it comes to actually shooting a bullet. While it may seem obvious, the way to avoid problems with improperly sized bullets is to shoot the right ammunition in your guns. If you're hand loading, you should use a reputable reloading manual to ensure you're using the right-sized bullet when hand loading for a particular cartridge...