Smoke'em if ya got'em...ammo availability

[PegLeg45]

I've mentioned in other posts that we spent a few days at a secluded State Park campground about an hour and a half from home last week. Well, in the closest town to the park has recently added a Rural King in one end of the old mall. It takes up the whole end of the old building (kudos the RK for reusing an existing building instead of building a new one)...so anyway, I ventured in to look around and right at the front door they had a table full of ammo on sale (right next to the free popcorn machine).... 5.56mm brass-cased for $8 a box and CCI Blazer Brass 9mm for $11 a box of fifty. Guns and ammo in the back of the store was decently priced. Self defense ammo in 20 rd boxes in the low $20's range.

The first time in I bought 200 rounds of 5.56mm for $80 plus tax, and since they had jeans in a 34 inseam in stock I grabbed a pair of those too.
Two days later I went back and grabbed 200 more 5.56 and a box of the 9mm for me and the same for one of my sons.
All in i came away with 700 rounds of ammo.....
EGADS!!! CNN would call that an arsenal. 

Side note: the manager said they're planning to build a RK in Valdosta, about 50 miles south on I-75....... I'll go broke.

[Big Frank]

I got my $15 rebate check in the mail today from when I bought 5 boxes of Norma NXD ammo in .45 Auto caliber. I would have bought .380 Auto too if it was in stock, which it still isn't. They have the other 6 calibers, but not that. You could get up to $90 back IIRC, by buying multiples of 5 boxes, but I just wanted to try 100 rounds to see how they work in my guns.

The NXD is defensive ammunition that uses a fluted, non-­expanding projectile similar to the Polycase ARX Inceptor round introduced in 2015. The NXD projectile is made of a copper-­polymer matrix featuring a full-­metal-­jacket (FMJ) profile, but featuring specially engineered flutes. Combined with a high rotational velocity, the flutes leading to the ogive exploit two fluid dynamic principles: Hydrodynamic Ram (HRAM) and the Venturi effect.

When a high-­velocity bullet enters a fluid medium, HRAM will cause a large cavity to form. The mushrooming of a hollow point bullet increases this effect. The fluted NXD bullet works differently than a jacketed hollow point (JHP); cavitation still occurs, but as Norma’s Vice President of Portfolio Management Daniel Cox explains, “The NXD takes it much further in utilizing the Venturi effect to create multiple secondary Hydrodynamic Ram events in soft tissue. This increases shock value and soft-­tissue disruption.”

The use of eight flutes — as opposed to four flutes seen the similar ARX non-­expanding composites — “allows for a more effective utilization of the Venturi effect,” according to Norma, “and helps produces a longer and larger wound cavity.” These flutes have the additional property of not being susceptible to clogging as many JHP bullets do.

https://normausa.com/product-category/dedicated-defense/nxd/?orderby=price

[alfsauve]

the closest town to the park has recently added a Rural King in one end of the old mall.

Where?

[PegLeg45]

Where?

Waycross.


PSA has a clearance on 115gr 9mm self defense ammo for $6 per 20rd box.
Yes, I ordered some. 

https://palmettostatearmory.com/ammo-inc-jesse-james-tml-115-gr-jacketed-hollow-point-9mm-ammo-20-box-9115jhpa20.html

[Diamondback]

You want problems, try finding an exotic caliber like .450SMC...

[Sponsor]

[Big Frank]

You want problems, try finding an exotic caliber like .450SMC...

It looks like your choices are DoubleTap, Doubletap, DoubleTap, and four more offerings from DoubleTap. Try getting any of those on sale.

[Diamondback]

Yeah, DTA owns the cartridge and all its IP in-toto so they can charge whatever they want.