Cost of shooting/reloading

[gunman42782]

I know we are all sick to death of ammo prices going up. (And I know you are probably sick of people like me griping about it!)I just placed an order at Midway for 500 Remington .357 mag 125 grain JHP and it cost $45.99!  This was ON SALE!  Last year I bought a box of 500 for $29.99, and the year before they were $24.99.  So they have dang near doubled in two years.  I bought a 100 30/30 Remington bullets for $19.49!  They used to have these on sale for $9.99 all the time.  I used to buy Sierra 168 grain BTHP Match bullets for the same price ($19.99), now they are close to $30.00.  It is honestly getting to the point where I am gonna have to cut back on my shooting it is getting so dang expensive.  I know I have found myself shooting more and more .22 LR (and even it went up, but not like everything else.) 

[Hazcat]

It does seem like a way to force us to 'low powered' .22 for most of our shooting.  If I was a 'tin foil hat' kinda guy....

[DDMac]

yea, but look how much more you're making now compared to then.... Uh, .. never mind. Got tin foil??
 
I'm doing more .22 as well, but I did invest in an AR conversion that works nice at 25 yds. Fun anyway. Got a chance to run through a mag of .223 on a suppressed Bushmaster factory demo gun last Saturday. After about 15 rounds, I popped the mag for a look- really trash filled. It fired fine, naturally, but it was obvious that a serious cleaning was going to happen that night. Piston just has to be a better full auto, suppressed design.

I am contemplating renting sign space across the street from the local High School. Here is where political correctness yields to humor. If I post an ad for Miller Lite, with good lookin' girl, I can afford more ammo! My small farm is a 1 beer drive from the HS parking lot, and the first place outside of the subdivisions they pass. I am "given" about 5 empty cans a day (more on Fridays) when they pass by on their way home. A 200% increase, @29 cents a pound, is REAL MONEY!!

Hey, I'm just kidding. Not trying to promote drunk driving or under-aged drinking. I'm way too late for that. I'm just saying, with the rise in ammo prices, we gotta' get creative.

Mac.

[Hazcat]

Heck, just put a "dump your cans here" sign on your driveway.

[Outlaw]

I must be a lush..I cashed my cans in the other day and got $92. for the Aluminum. Do I have to go the those damn classes now? 

[Sponsor]

[Hazcat]

I must be a lush..I cashed my cans in the other day and got $92. for the Aluminum. Do I have to go the those damn classes now? 

NAAAA!!  They get in the way of drinking time.

[unique]

Gunman,
You're talking about 50, not 500, right?
Anyone know anything about Collins Cartridge Co.?  They have re-manufactured .357's for $136.00/500.  That's the best price I've seen for ammo anywhere.
Gun show coming up here (Rochester) this coming weekend, time to roll my pennies and see what's available.
Art

[Hazcat]

Gunman,
You're talking about 50, not 500, right?
Anyone know anything about Collins Cartridge Co.?  They have re-manufactured .357's for $136.00/500.  That's the best price I've seen for ammo anywhere.
Gun show coming up here (Rochester) this coming weekend, time to roll my pennies and see what's available.
Art

LINK!!

[unique]

Oops, knew I forgot something
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[gunman42782]

No, I mean 500.  Bullets. Components.  Not loaded ammo.