davefrmmrfy wrote:...And 165gr 40S&W fmj $26.88/100!
Yep; confirmed. I have an upcoming class with John Farnam, and have decided to shoot .40. Most of what I have stocked up is S&B, and John isn't fond of it. So I took the morning off, did my early voting thang, and swung by the Wal-Mart at Hwy 6 and 529 northwest of Houston. Sure enough, $26.88 per box of 100 for WWB. I bought a thousand rounds, anyway.
I also bought 10, 20-round boxes of plain-ol' 55-grain UMC brass-cased .223 for $8.52 per box. (Most of what I have "stockpiled" is SS109 penetrator, which I can't shoot in the class.)
For a year, I've been sorta on-again, off-again maintaining a spreadsheet tracking ammo prices and sources. To wax nostalgic for a moment, the cheapest new-manufacture, brass-cased .223 I have on file is 31.1 cents per round, Fiocchi 55-grain, from August 2007 at AIM Surplus. My Wal-Mart buy today was 42.65 cents per round.
The cheapest new-manufacture, brass-cased .40 S&W in my file is 20.8 cents per round, Sellier & Bellot 180-grain, also from August, from Sportsman's Guide. Today's Wal-Mart buy was 26.88 cents per round...29.2% higher!
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