What Is Going On With AMMO !? 

Once a standard is set and people become used to it, the prices will never come down! Excuses and greed will prevail!!

Please add ammo to Friday deal alerts as often as deals allow. If people pay inflated prices then prices will stay high.

Yep. $4 for a box 7.62x39 just vanished because of a signature by an elected person ☹️☹️

During the 90’s I could buy steel case 7.62x39 ammo for 1.89 a box. You could buy a nice SKS rifle for around 100 dollars. Leave it to the Government to F things up and make EVERYTHING MORE EXPENSIVE!!!!

I miss the spam can days of x39 for 15 cents a round

I remember being able to buy a brick of 500 rounds of 22 for less than $10. Around deer season 30-30 was about $8 a box. But what does anyone expect when government allows over half the domestic output to become One World Order? While destroying the American market.

The only problem with AAC is shipping cost. By the time shipping and taxes hit it runs the same as S&B at my LGS.

Everything PSA does is great!

At the end of the day nothing is the same price as it used to be

AAC has some really good offerings I've been getting sub-moa accuracy out of my 308 AR10 with the 175 grain match stuff and it's all under 20 bucks a box.

It’s a sinking feeling that virtually every full magazine discharged for practice is a combo meal price.

If you plan on going to war you have to remove or limit your enemies ability to wage war .

Cheapest you’ve seen in 10 years? I used to get brass 9mm at Walmart for $9 for 50 rounds back in 2017

I've had this chat with a lot of younger guys, mainly that prices are wildly variable by caliber. One instance, back in the mid 90s, I was paying anywhere from 28-$40 for a box of 50 range-qual 10mm. These days is dang near the same, which is remarkable to me. Other things like 22LR has gone bananas. We used to get a brick of 500 to go plink at the river for $5-8. Today, if you can find it, you'd think it was gold-cased. Then with rifles, it's all over the place. As of late it's been well priced and fair around here, but I'm hesitant to shoot it as the politics in Texas is hazy at best. Ended up just getting 5.7x28 as it's not a primary caliber for me and is becoming reasonable.

I'm ashamed of myself and my fellow American men. We should have put our foot down years ago.

Please dont use $/box pricing, because how many rounds per box? How do I compare the value of a bulk ammo order to your $/box metric? Just use $/round for the sake of simplicity and standardization

The CCI 22lr box of 100 rounds only cost around $1.99 back in 1980.

If you check out the interview with GOA AAC is actually a factory PSA built from the ground up after the AAC acquisition. It was due having a hard time sourcing testing ammo from normal distribution paths, the AAC name was by circumstance. I know a lot of smaller ammo factories are starting to open up, especially in Texas, if I'm mistaken Staccato even announced an ammo line at Shot Show for the same reasons PSA did, due to supply chain issues with their ammo partners at the time. 9mm is at a great price rn, to the point for me reloading isn't as attractive due to components prices rising. Average price on primers is almost $100, I just bought a 1k of federal for $240 shipped off a deal from gundeals. So I'm going to stack high on factory 9mm and have the ability to reload and some components when things get crazy.

It has no gone to a point where shooting a firearm at the range once a month is a luxury.

Called inflation...Dollar has fallen in value.....

I 100% with your points as someone who has been stacking dat metal for 15yrs. It is crazy. People just now getting in are paying double & triple what we paid a decade ago. 👍👍🇺🇸

It is a shame that the case of 1000rd 762X39 steel still cost the importer less than $65 , I hope they will pay for there greed when we manage to import from somewhere else soon ! There is plenty of ammo now , if every one hold off on buying ,I'm sure the price will go back to pre-covid !

i remember 25 years ago when wolf 762x39 was $2.99 a box!!

I still remember when 22lr was .99 cents a box i used to love going to the gun range now i just think about how much money it costs me.

Went to my local Academy this last friday and they had plenty of ammo. The problem is that prices haven't dropped to the pre-pandemic rates that we came to like and enjoy. The prices are still double what they were.

I don't know what you're talking about. Ammo is not the lowest in 14 years. The closest we got to 2010-2011 was 2018-2019.

Just picked up some AAC 75gr bthp, 75gr black tip, and 77gr otm to try out. For $2 more per box over 55/62gr it’s a great price for the performance

16.67 for 9mm 29.50 for 300BLK 30.31 for .223/5.56 Ammo prices aren’t great but seem to have stayed consistent since Covid started. They never came back down

9mm used to be $10 for a box of 100 WWB

I reload and component parts can be very difficult to find and expensive. Sometimes I can find factory 9mm 1 cent cheaper per round than I can reload it. I do not know what’s happening but I have a feeling it will not improve anytime soon.

Lol. $13 a box for 7.62x39. I live in a small town in California and my LGS is gouging people on price. At $27/20 rounds. It’s ridiculous. Literally cheaper for me to drive to and from Vegas and pick up ammo.

Knew 7.62x39 was going to get more expensive way back in 2017 when trade embargos started to hit Russia and the intermediaries it used to avoid ammo export restrictions. For those who reload ammo for personal use only, 300 blackout makes a lot more sense to make in large quantities of ball ammo as the components are more affordable to get ahold of of unlike 7.62x39. You can get 7.62x39 bullets and brass but you're going to be paying a premium for them. Large rifle primers, that's going to be a pain to get ahold of now which most of the brass is constructed for.

Crazy Fact: The United States produces nearly double the amount of ammunition today that it did during World War 2! The “problem” is hoarding. The biggest spenders are buying pallets of the stuff before it ever gets to store shelves. Federal did an internal study that estimated about 1:100 regular buyers had more than 200,000 rounds stockpiled

If you are a reloader, projectiles are as cheap as they've been in 10 years! Powder and primers on the other hand are double the price from 10 years ago. Just like that old song, you gotta know when tp hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, know when to run! 🤣

In the last 6 months I've seen 223 and 556 jump 10 dollars to 25.00 a box of 20 rounds in Texas !!!

I don't know about the whole United States but Walmart pretty much discontinued selling any pistol calibers like 9 mm and in a lot of places they don't they refuse to sell 223 or 556

my sporting store had a sale on 12g 2.3/4 9 pellet 00 buckshot Winchester 5 rounds box for 2.99 a box. i couldn't clear the shelf . but i did buy 200 dollars worth 💪💪💪

2:29 PSA actually built AAC from the ground up due to low ammo availability- it wasn’t a pre existing business that they acquired

I just bought 1k 5.56 last week. Put that back with my preps. I separate my training/target ammo from my prep/shtf ammo! I buy mostly from PSA and Academy Sports.

Higher prices may encourage accurate practice.

One thing to take into consideration is the price of base metals. I scrap about once a month. copper, brass, tungsten, and stainless have all been at record highs throughout the last couple of years. Anywhere from 1.80$ all the way up to 3$$ per pound. It's a direct reflection as well as minimum wage, price of gas and water. Keep your brass even if you don't reload because it's worth quite a bit. Why leave quarters dimes and nickels laying around? And do your part to recycle, it's never been as profitable and worth than ever before.

Ive been finding tons of 7.62x39 brass at the range lately. Finding it at the range used to be incredibly rare. As a long time reloader, im happy to find it for myself but i feel bad for how much everyone else is paying.

not a bad price on the 10mm but the shipping is the killer...

I still get emails from the online dealers that just keep getting cheaper.

Went to the flea market today and scored big. 470 rounds of 5.45x39, 170 of it was hornady vmax steel cased and the rest wolf military classic. 80 rounds of lake city 5.56 nato, 100 12ga bird shot shells and 20 Brazilian 7.62 nato. 200$.

Pmc prices are usually pretty decent

When Walmart dropped popular ammo the stage was set no competition the price was not set any longer so it went up I’m buying Russian ammo because when it’s gone it’s gone

I buy quality ammunition in volume from SGAmmo, Bereli, and Velocity. I don’t run 7.62x39, or 5.56, and I don’t run garbage ammo through my guns typically. I do run a couple brands of cheaper .308 through my DD sometimes. My go-to 9mm is Winchester NATO 124gr @ $270/1000. HST’s in 9mm and .45 come in on police trade-in and I’ve got those at $500/1000 and $600/1000 respectively. 10mm HST is non-existent but typically runs $2/rd, which I won’t pay. For target 10mm I run American Eagle and S&B. I’ve got lake city Winchester .308 (actually M80 ball) at $480/500 loose in the can. Those prices are delivered. The above online sellers also sell CCI mini-mag in lots of 2000-5000 at around $0.08/round. At any rate, I’ve seen no shortage but prices are going up. I don’t panic buy but I stock, and I typically buy twice as much as whatever I shoot at the range each month. Shoot 1000 10mm buy 2000 10mm. That’s how I ended up buying a 9mm pistol, lol.

Away with the herd mentality people. Stop panic buying so we can make it a buyers market. If we agree to hold off the prices will come down.

If one had 1000's of 9mm Makarov, would you sell them as such, or salvage the lead for reloading ? Ball, hollow point, brass and steel.

Try finding 325WSM for less than $5 a round. Nearly impossible once you add in more tax and shipping.

Love to see 6.5 grendel affordable ammo

There were announcements everywhere near the end of 23 saying ammo was going up in 24. A lot being driven by powder costs and govt contracts being filled to go overseas

22's used to be .01 cent a round. I surely miss those days. Now, I'm not an old fart, I'm still in my 30's, so just think how inflated prices gave gotten in the last 20 years.

I picked up a couple of boxes of that New Republic 5.56 at a gun show a few weeks back and it worked fine for me.

Dang, I am old! I paid $2.00 a box for 7.62 x 39 at gun shows in N and S Carolina in the 1990s and at times as low as $1.50 a box on sale, rare, but I have paid that and bought 5000 RDS once, and burn it all up on one Saturday with my son and some friends. 9mm then was about $150-$175 a 1000 and .223 was around $120 a 1000 for Norinco and about $175 a 1000 for Lake City and others. I am 70 now and sure do miss those old prices, yes I know income was also way different, but I had a good well paid job back then too! Keep up the good work with videos, I love the Pawn Shop Challenges!

I don’t want to sound to old,but like the early 2000’ and before when AK’s were 2-350$ and mosies were 89$ they used to almost make you take a 800 round tuna can with the gun when you bought one because they had so many.i do miss that,but now AR’s are cheep as hell(most anyway) and .223 isn’t bad if you reload or buy bulk

FJB!

There’s 10mm Federal and Winchester out there for the same 19.99. Use Ammoseek

I think you should have at least 15k rounds of every caliber you own, Except for 12 guage, try to have at least 500 rds. Obviously this is tough if you're starting out. I've got a few years under my belt.

I feel bad for people who invested in all the "new" calibers. 6.5 Grendel, 6.5 creed, 300 blackout, and all the others.

PSA hasn’t been able to get their own ammo in stock for several months. I get selling out fast and often but to never get more 69gr 556 or 220gr 300BLK for 4 months is extremely frustrating.

I can still remember buying 50 round boxes of 22 long @ the Dollar General Store for about $1.00 back in the 80's

5.56 nato is extremely expensive plus a box for 200 is 124 bucks

Couldn’t believe seeing 7.62 x39 for same$ as 300 blackout .60 cents round

I was buying 5.56 for 50 cents a round up until about October last year. Went from $5.99 to $9.99 per 20rds within several weeks.

Stocked up on MagTech and sell and bell 9mm for 6$ a box after tax.

7.62x54R use to be about .20 a round when I got my M44. I paid $88 for my M44 (now it's $550 on the low end here where I live if I wanted to buy one) and ammo was 100 rounds for $20. When Obama did that ban it jumped x54R up to 0.89 a round. Now in my area it's up to $1.50 per round due to events. I hate it. My M44 use to be my go too mess around shoot all day rifle. .308, .30-06, all my other calibers so obnoxiously high as well. Even .22LR is so obnoxious anymore. I have a lot of ammunition. But it just annoys me/sickens me that a bullet I bought for about .12 would cost me $1.30 to replace. .223/5.56 use to be about .10 now it's about .55. Even up to .65. 9mm was .05 now it's about .16. Just obnoxious.

I had been hand loading for years, but just in the last two years, I added . 223, instead of buying. I just stopped shooting . 308, saved what I had and shoot more .223.

I saw a job listing on PSA's website regarding working at a new priming plant. I think AAC will be making primers and wonder how that will affect component price.

Bruh $10-13 a box for 7.62x39? Try $25-35 in Middle TN

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Walk in Cabela's 2 to 4 days a week. Other day overheard the workers talking to some customers and told them there is a shortage of ammo now cause lots of it is being shipped to Israel now and still being shipped to Ukraine, after they make it.

It's absurd how much .22lr costs nowadays.

Idk I'm in california so $11 a box sounds cheap

Government!!

Guns and Gear and Guns and Gadgets are both great channels hosted by two awesome men

I am all about the Black Tip right now. Stocking before it goes up. And given the current climate of the world it probably will go up.

Target Sports never has anything in stock!

I tried to buy a 50ct box of 10mm last week. $50 box (SoCAL), no thx - put it back on the shelf. I will certainly check out the AAC 10mm but shipping & FFL charges usually wipe out any cost savings. I won't purchase range 9mm over $10 box.

I’m old but, I bought 22 rimfire for 24 to 28 cents a box at a local fuel station and I was only 11 years old. This was before the 1968 gun control act. This is when all the attacks on our second amendment really started and from th3n on it has been all about greed.

Pshhhh PSA has been waiting for the Russian ammo to go thru the roof, they'll sell it for a few pennies less than the brass stuff, they are in the business to make money. Thanks for your educational content and keep up the great work 👍 ❤

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but to me the idea where consumers were being taken for suckers was when the traditional 50-round boxes of handgun ammo started getting upstaged by the manufacturers' 20-round boxes. This is really a LONG TERM, looking-back perspective, but as the semi-autos' magazine capacities climbed towards 17 - 20 (thanks to innovation of double stack) one realized that s/he was using up an entire box, or near to it, to load one mag. And with the mindset of carrying two extra magazines, now you're looking at buying THREE boxes, just for everyday carry. To many this will sound VERY dated, or extreme 'old school,' but back when the 1911 A-1 and its seven-round magazine of .45s was popular as were double action revolvers traditionally holding six .357 magnum or .38 special rounds, when one purchased a box, its 50 rounds within would load and reload your piece half a dozen times. That seems or felt kind of generous, comforting to know you could reload six to seven times from one box. [And with a second box of 50 at hand, LOTS of times.] But then when the cutback to 20 rounds per box the mindset is "I can't believe I chewed up an entire box to load one magazine!" I know, I know, there are still plenty of offerings of 50-round boxes. But with the high cost swings we've all suffered through, the psychology as a consumer tends to lead one to bypass the hefty box and go for the 20-round little siblings. Half a dozen years back when .22 LR rounds shot up to or surpassed what WAS the equivalent of what single round costs of .38 Specials and 9 mm were for decades, and that $20 bill that covered two boxes of .30-30 factory loads wouldn't even let you out of the store with one, I thought the world was coming to an end. THAT was only the beginning, it turned out. "Thank you, '704 TACTICAL,' for the pricing and availability updates with SPECIFICS."

Ammo is, in real terms, as plentiful and affordable as it has been in YEARS. As we've seen this can change on a dime. Buy ammo now or regret not buying it later. You're welcome.

Say a guy has some ammo he’s willing to part with…. How would he go about offering it for sale, legally, in CA?

I load my own ammo with once fired brass. 5.56 75gr. BTHP cost is about 22¢ a round. 300BLK 208gr. subsonic about 42¢. 458 SOCOM 300gr. HP $1.47 with new brass, 59¢ a reload.

I keep heating ammo shortage ? Never , found AR ammo in bulk Until now, even at a great price

I've got sleeves of CCI 22's from 20 years ago with .99 cent price tags on them.

2019 I bought a bunch of .45 federal hydra-shok @ $12.99 for a box of 20. I rotate my “stored” ammo every 7 years (I’m aware it keeps much longer), lucky for me 2019 was year 7. As of this week, same box of 20 at the same store is $35.

Not sure if the store Academy is near you but they offer an in store credit card that gives you 10% off on all gun and ammo purchases and if you can find what they have in store at a cheaper price they will price match it and give you an additional 5% off on top of your 10% off.

Just an interesting note, ammo prices at auction are running higher then current market price. That tells me people are still very worried about shortages. A few weeks ago a 200ct box of AAC 300blk that PSA sells for $150 sometimes lower, sold at auction for $190. Crazy

Ammo - the batteries to the guns I remember buying Winchester white box .380 acp from Walmart in 2016 for $16. Now look at .380, I’m seeing it anywhere from $26/box to $30/box. Maybe here or there I can find an off brand company selling it for $20/box. 9mm has been all over the place. Last couple of years I’ve bought it anywhere from $13/box to $22/box. Lately have been buying it in bulk.

Shipping costs makes buying online not worth it

Yeah I’m trying to buy bulk ammo of 50 Beowulf ,300 blackout ,8.6 black out ,50 bmg ,20mm …..the wallet is screaming 😢… but I think I’ll just buy me machines or tools getting into reloading or making the rounds myself.

I just bought 3 100 round sleeves of CCI standard velocity for $19.99 a box. Yesterday January of 2024.

you already know... sadly companies are just going to keep charging more than they should... just because they can.

Thanks for the update

Where .45 😢

I recommend buying online. It’s the cheapest & still the best price. I’m in Vegas & bought lightly dented remanufactured 2 5 🍩 rounds for 1 6 🍩 At my favorite store.

Love Target Sports USA , they are 15 minutes away from my house 😉 I think needing a permit to buy ammo has caused another issue of black market type of sales, people who have the permit buying all this ammo and selling it to people who are banned from buying guns and ammo at even higher prices!