Regardless of the virus, now is the cheapest I have seen ammo in 15 years. Ammoman has 1k rounds of brass 5.56 for $289 shipped. I’d stock up before the election run.
fwiw, the supply chain seems to be recovering at least for ammo. ammo prices are down about 50% since the peak around Feb. anecdotally, you'd have to pay 90c/round for decent brass case 9mm, now you can get it for <40c/round.
IMO remans move the risk/reward curve pretty substantially,especially from no-name brands and steel is banned anywhere within an hour of me :( Although I suppose in a true disaster people wouldn't be as concerned about following the BLM/Forest Service rules
Apples to apples it looks like new brass ammo is still about 2x what it cost in 2019.
The "ammo shortage" has been unrelenting since just before Obama got elected. There's people making a living finding and reselling closet caches of ammo from estate sales and such, they've been doing this for several years now.
Some calibers are going to wind up having antique value, because these folks are so good at scouring the land.
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There are several rounds the military uses for small arms. 50 BMG and 5.56 NATO both have tungsten versions, though they are expensive, and hard for non-military to buy (when found, $50/rnd). Even the military does not normally issue them due to the cost, which is ~2-10x of a standard lead+steel round.
I was going to say, where do you even find blanks and I bet they're more expensive than normal ammo but no, you can easily order them online like this random example: https://greencountryammo.com/9mm-BLANK-Ammunition-DAG-100-ro... and they're only 2/3rds the cost of target ammunition.
Very cool but seems very labor intensive. I probably shoot about three-four hundred rounds a week...can't imagine making them! Fortunately there are a lot of ammo sellers online that keep prices pretty low and deliver.
But kudos to these folks as they will keep downward pressure on prices
I thought ammo cost was already going up because of demand.
Wouldn't that just transition people to making their own bullets? It's my understanding that it isn't super difficult if you have the tools, and can significantly reduce the cost of shooting.
The US mil gets its ammo mostly from Lake City and Federal. The latter does make 22, but basically a separate company. It was election panic at first; the irrational buy-up. Everyone was out from European to Russian suppliers.
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