Okay, I Have A New Priority For Another Rifle!!

[billt]

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=1482252992

300 Grain Sierra Matchkings in .338 are up to $264.99 for a 500 count box.

[fightingquaker13]

At $2.56 a round (for presumbly unloaded brass), someone's going to have to seriously piss me off before I pull the trigger. Still, its no different than boats or flyfishing I guess. The second you enter the store, grab a bottle of KY because you're going to need it.
FQ13 who wants pics, a range report and where you found a range after you buy this beast. I would love to find something more than a 100 yard range. Hell, we could carpool. I'll buy the gas if you buy the ammo.

[billt]

At $2.56 a round, someone's going to have to seriously piss me off.

500 brass = $1,279.95

500 bullets = $264.99

500 Federal 215 Magnum Primers = $16.75

Powder for 500 rounds @ 105 grains per round X 500 rounds = 52,500 grains divided by 7,000 grains per pound = 7.5 pounds. 8 pound jug of Reloader 25 = $169.95 (Approx.).

Total component cost for 500 rounds is $1,731.64 Divided by 500 = $3.46 a round. A little less if you amortize the brass cost over 3 or 4 rounds. Not much less than shooting a .50 BMG.  Bill T.

[billt]

Actually, shooting a .50 BMG is cheaper with Mil-Surp ammo.

http://www.50bmgsupply.com/ammo.shtml

If you buy 1,000 rounds of API from .50 BMG Supply, you can get the cost down to $2.80 a round. I have 100 rounds of Summit APIT .50 BMG coming today from Natchez.  Bill T.

[fightingquaker13]

I wish you both the joy of your guns and wish I could play in that league, but when you start talking $2800 for ammo? The Quaker will fold and leave the table. I still want to live vicariously through range reports though.
FQ13

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[capbyrd]

New factory ammo runs about $115 for 20 shots.  I think I could probably afford about 100 shots per year. 

http://www.ammunitiontogo.com/catalog1/product_info.php/pName/20rds-338-lapua-mag-remington-250gr-scenar-match-ammo/cName/rifle-ammo-338-lapua

[Johnny Bravo]

300 grain projectile retains twice the energy at 1 mile as a .45 ACP at the muzzle! Geeeezzzuuusss!!! That would knock the starch out of ya. Nice TW. I hope I get my American Rifleman today.

[billt]

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=649674

.460 Weatherby / 450 gr. Barnes X Bullet  $124.99 for 20.

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=871628

.338 Lapua at $63.99 for 10

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=161499

Federal .50 BMG at $44.49 for 10. Cheaper, bigger, badder.  Bill T.

[billt]

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=755944

At $340.99 a box of 20, this Federal .470 Nitro Express ammunition was the most expensive I could find from Midway. It comes to $17.05 a round. I think .700 Nitro Express is even more, but I can't find anyone who carries it.   Bill T.

[capbyrd]

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=755944

At $340.99 a box of 20, this Federal .470 Nitro Express ammunition was the most expensive I could find from Midway. It comes to $17.05 a round. I think .700 Nitro Express is even more, but I can't find anyone who carries it.   Bill T.

Discontinued but here it is. 

http://www.midwayusa.com:80/viewProduct/?productNumber=732664

$382.99 for a box of 5 rounds.  That works out to 76.60 per round.  Easily beats the .470!