Price of 45 colt ammo?
What is a decent price to pay for 45 long colt ammo now a days?
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Decent price??? Around here, even the cowboy loads are around $30 a box....there is no cheap, or inexpensive 45 colt ammo around anywhere! I have a bunch of handguns and a bunch of rifles in that caliber and the only way I could afford to shoot them is to reload! 0 -
Looks like its running $30-35 per box of 50 on the auction site, depending on brand and quantity ordered.
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Just for perspective, in 1970 while I was in college the local hardware store had .45 long colt for $9.95 per box. I illegally had my 2nd gen Colt Saa in the dorm room and my roomie wanted to shoot it. I went 2 weeks with no Cigs, beer, pizza or pot so I could afford the ammo. That's been 39 years and it sure wasn't cheap then! PS I'd paid only $80 for the Colt in 1969 ( of course it wound up being traded away later) 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Old hickory
Just for perspective, in 1970 while I was in college the local hardware store had .45 long colt for $9.95 per box. I illegally had my 2nd gen Colt Saa in the dorm room and my roomie wanted to shoot it. I went 2 weeks with no Cigs, beer, pizza or pot so I could afford the ammo. That's been 39 years and it sure wasn't cheap then! PS I'd paid only $80 for the Colt in 1969 ( of course it wound up being traded away later)
I read an article in one of the gun mags about 6 months ago (ie pre-Obama) talking about the rapid increase in ammo prices over the past few years.
I don't remember all the details, but the author went back and looked at mail-order catalogs from the 50s, 60s, etc, and compared published ammo prices from that time against the dollar adjusted for inflation.
What he found was (suprise) the ammo from the early part of the 21st century was cheaper than ever before, once dollar-adjusted, particularly .22 LR ammo.
IIRC he concluded that what we've seen over the past few years (if not the past few months), has just been a reversion to historical norms.0 -
Factory ammo prices have certainly taken a jump, but I remember that the retail price of a box of Remington 9mm ball in 1972 was just short of ten bucks. You could buy a Hi-Power at the time for not much over $100, so it seems to be true that ammo prices are really only just catching up with everything else.
But reloading is certainly the way to go, especially as there seems to be some pillaging of the public on the part of ammo sellers right now, apart from factory price increases. I was checking the price of 38-40's, and it was everything from expensive, to ridiculous. Gander Mountain wanted over $80 per box. Others were at $55, about retail. Cowboy loads were well over $30. So I bought dies, unfired brass, and cast bullets, and loaded ten boxes for a cost of just under $20 per box, and that was including the cost of the dies. The second and subsequent loadings of these cases will then cost about $6.50 per box (I already have primers, which is another wild card for those who don't have a supply). But back to the point, I'll soon shoot the 38-40 for about 1/5 of the cost of the very cheapest factory stuff. If any body has the room, I would certainly recommend investing in a handloading setup.
Surplus ammo is still a deal. In the 1960's, Ye Olde Hunter and others were selling the common military rifle cartridges for $6 -$7 per hundred. Today it's just becoming about four times that, which means that the price (as adjusted) really hasn't changed. 20 or 25 cents a shot for the Russian x54, for example, is still substantially less than the cost to reload it.0
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