Well, there goes ammo prices again..

[dcs13]

Probably gonna be a lot more expensive to get 556 for a while...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/02/27/war-footing-or-ukraine-biden-waives-section-303-of-dpa-related-to-weapons-ammunition-explosives-and-components/

[Trip McNeely]

Maybe the non-NATO rounds won’t be affected…maybe…

[ram57ta]

I have enough .223/556 and 7.62x39 that I'm not too concerned.

[ceyko]

Feel like those rounds have been too expensive for 5+ years.

[68RR]

I've been getting almost daily emails from SGA about bulk ammo sales. Prices have dropped a bit, but still more than before.

[dcs13]

Guess I cried wolf. I really expected the prices to jump with Bidens move. Maybe folks have kinda stocked up enough at this point. Not like you can carry 3k rounds onto the battlefield these days.

[bubbaearl]

reloading is way more popular now. supplies can be harder to find than ammo.

[Trip McNeely]

reloading is way more popular now. supplies can be harder to find than ammo.

It?s probably more expensive than it was before though too.

[bird_dog0347]

It?s probably more expensive than it was before though too.

For sure it is!!! Hell, in 2019 I could go to any gun show and buy 5k primers for about $130, now they are like $8-$9 per hundred if you can find them last I checked. I've got tons of components to make my .223, .300blk (I convert my own .223 brass as well), .40, .38 SC so I'm set to make thousands more rounds on top of the bunch I already have loaded. The only things I buy but don't reload is .22, 9mm (don't shoot much of it) and shotgun shells.

[Trip McNeely]

For sure it is!!! Hell, in 2019 I could go to any gun show and buy 5k primers for about $130, now they are like $8-$9 per hundred if you can find them last I checked. I've got tons of components to make my .223, .300blk (I convert my own .223 brass as well), .40, .38 SC so I'm set to make thousands more rounds on top of the bunch I already have loaded. The only things I buy but don't reload is .22, 9mm (don't shoot much of it) and shotgun shells.

Yeah I way missed that window. I remember though even in those days it took a few cases worth of factory ammo to even break even on the cost of all the machinery and supplies. Can?t imagine the break-even point now. Lol

[bird_dog0347]

Yeah I way missed that window. I remember though even in those days it took a few cases worth of factory ammo to even break even on the cost of all the machinery and supplies. Can?t imagine the break-even point now. Lol

I didn't originally get into reloading to save on the cost but rather when shooting USPSA I could tune the ammo to my gun as well as the power factor and have a softer/flatter shooting gun that still made power factor for maximum points. Then when I switched to open division and started shooting .38 Super Comp you have to reload as no one makes that round in bulk. I also upgraded from the Dillon XL650 to a Dillon Super 1050 with bullet feeder and all... way overkill and not cost effective but it certainly makes the process faster.