How much did ammo used to cost?

[locktime]

Now do it in Pig Latin.

[PolishMike]

hahahahahahahah

[bfoosh006]

Now that I cough dust, prices way back then were a little more reasonable.....the cheapest Winc. Q3131A $1.59/20 on sale, Norinco 7.62x39 1200 rds for $89.95...it was considered the "next step" up from a 22lr for cost effectiveness. SKS was $90.00 bucks. Cheap Fed.AE 9mm was under 6.50/50.......sniff, I gotta stop now.....memories....

Pretty sad that my ammo has increased in value more than my retirement fund....

[rayra]

About 23yrs ago, a 20-rd box of PMC .223 would occasionally go on sale at Turners Reseda for 2.69/box.

/**** I'm getting old

[stiff neck]

You mean the panic right before Y2K? During the panic, you could get a 1000 round case of Wolf or Ulyanovsk 7.62x39 for $90-$100. It was $75 just before the panic.

[sargenv]

Um. I remember paying 6.99 a box for Remington UMC 308 with a 150 gr bullet. This was a box of 20.

[Californio]

A box of 50ea .22 long rifle $ .50, I think that was with sales tax in 1966.

[QuarterBoreGunner]

Here's a good article on the ammo/gun price boom that a fellow Calgunner wrote, that was just posted on Lew Rockwell's site.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/mattis1.html

[SCMA-1]

I refuse to pay today's panic prices. I still have dozens of cases of ammo from the surplus days (80's-mid 90's) and before Clinton banned all Chinese arms imports. As others have said, Norinco 7.62x39 was $70-$80 for 1200rds, Chinese PS ball (steel core) in spam cans on strippers was about the same for 1440 rds, Norinco 223 (white and yellow box) was $130-$160 per 1600rd case. All manners of 308 NC FMJ from Paragon was $100-$130 shipped per 1000rd cases. Malaysian 223 was some of my favorite; approx. 9-10 cents per round in spam cans on AR strippers; hot as hell too! British 70's OFN Match 308 was $110 shipped per 1000rds (shoots into 1" through my FAL). Every once in a while there were crazy good deals from Paragon like Spanish 9mm 123 gr SMG ball at 1600rds for $90 shipped or Egyptian 8mm Mauser for 7 cents a round per case. Will we ever see these prices again? Probably not but I'll wait for better days nevertheless.

SCMA-1

[scr83jp]

I purchased 5 800 round cases of surplus 30-06 denver '42 & '43 in link belt with every 5th tracer round removed they were in steel 30 cal ammo boxes at Fed Ord in S. El Monte,CA for about $ 440.Powder in the hodgdon 19th reloading manual 1 pound can $2.50

[SCMA-1]

I purchased 5 800 round cases of surplus 30-06 denver '42 & '43 in link belt with every 5th tracer round removed they were in steel 30 cal ammo boxes at Fed Ord in S. El Monte,CA for about $ 440.Powder in the hodgdon 19th reloading manual 1 pound can $2.50

Fed Ord......used to go there at lunch time quite a bit; worked just down the street. I used to buy lots of reloading components from Cole's in Santa Monica and Bower's in LA. Everything was $10 or less back then. 1000 primers: $10. 1lb of powder: $10. 25lb bag of shot: $10. Those were the days, yeah? I feel sorry for the guys just getting started within the last 10 years.

[ar15barrels]

PMC or Federal (red box american eagle) used to always be $3 per 20 once you go back at least 5 years.
$2.50 per 20 was a good deal and you could get them on-sale for $120 per 1000 rounds.

[cgseanp1]

About the same as a basic class on punctuation and grammar.

Don't be an ***.

[Beelzy]

About 23yrs ago, a 20-rd box of PMC .223 would occasionally go on sale at Turners Reseda for 2.69/box.

/**** I'm getting old

Yeah, I remember those days too.

I also remember ammo being cheap enough for Gunshops to give it away
when you bought a gun. I miss those days.

[scr83jp]

Fed Ord......used to go there at lunch time quite a bit; worked just down the street. I used to buy lots of reloading components from Cole's in Santa Monica and Bower's in LA. Everything was $10 or less back then. 1000 primers: $10. 1lb of powder: $10. 25lb bag of shot: $10. Those were the days, yeah? I feel sorry for the guys just getting started within the last 10 years.

Bowers was my favorite store on Hill St in LA a friend and I bought 12 lb kegs of Win 540 about every 3 months plus wads by the case & once fired Win AA's & $8 bags of shot .I took friends there to buy rifles and shotguns,my 1964 chev 3/4 ton p/u with a steel pullman camper shell left bowers tail heavy then we drove to orange county to buy cases of primers at Andrews(precursor to turners) & Grant Boys.