I've been taking my Kimber to the range a lot lately, and she's putting a hole in my wallet. Any good deals on target ammo?
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I've been taking my Kimber to the range a lot lately, and she's putting a hole in my wallet. Any good deals on target ammo?
Sadly there isn't at this time. Most places are dried up, have limits, or become sold out shortly after shipment. I'd recommend walmart if you get their early. If not subscribe to this thread with instant updates
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Plenty of .45 ACP ammo available for between .40 and .50 cents a round.
Buy in bulk quantities I say.
If you don't mind the Russian steel cased ammo that is the cheapest.
Cabela's right now has some decent priced ammo like PMC.
They also have their own brand Herter's and the FMJ flavor is made by Sellier and Bellot in Czech. I had good luck with that in .45 ACP.
AIM Surplus has good deals every day but they go fast.
UNammo has a selection of .45 ammo in bulk that would be ideal for target shooting.
Palmetto State Armory has steel cased Blazer for $18.99 right now.
My local range doesn't allow steel cased ammo... so I've been pretty lucky finding 100rd boxes of WWB for ~$42 at Walmart. Not great but decent price for brass.
Try to shoot less than you buy, assuming that you are buying some. My last trip to the range I only shot 25 rounds per gun. I had been shooting more frequently though, but finding certain calibers can be tricky, costly, and time consuming. On a frustrating note, I did find that shooting 25 rounds made the gun about as dirty as 50 to 75 rounds. But life goes on...
FreedomMunitions is fairly cheap... and they have a link for what's in stock:
http://www.freedommunitions.com/category-s/53970.htm
Personally the cheapest ammo is the ones you handload. I'm cranking out .45acp rounds at about $0.15 a round.
Learn to reload, plenty of info. Pays for your initial investment fast. I load a box of 50 .45's for around $8 a box. I shoot .45 in my 2 carry guns. Start saving the shells you are shooting now and either learn to reload or sell them. (brass only)
Cheap ammo? What is that :)
Walmart has had the best prices, when you can find it. If you live near one, you just have to stop regularly and check. Cheapest I've seen this year is just under $20/50 rd box there.
We have 1,250 boxes of Speer Lawman coming in the middle of next week. It will be $24.99 a box. We are going to offer a case price of $475 which is $23.75 a box. It should be in Wednesday or Thursday. This is the biggest shipment of 45 that we have seen in 9 months.
Really....learn to reload.
I expect that those are jacketed bullets (but mebbe not with prices the way that they are nowadays.)Quote:
I load a box of 50 .45's for around $8 a box. I
I cast or swage my own bullets and the savings are even greater.
I reload my target ammo for less than $4.00 a box of 50.
Either way....way less than fifty cents a shot.
Pete