Here’s a look at what we’ll have Friday morning: • 9mm Ammo – 500 rounds 115 Grain FMJ – $100 (.20/rd delivered) • 5.56 Ammo – 500 rounds 55 Grain FMJ – $160 ( .32/rd delivered) • 40 S&W Ammo – 1000 rounds 180 Grain TMJ – $270 (.27/rd delivered) • 45 ACP Ammo – 1000 rounds 230 Grain TMJ – $380 (.38/rd delivered) • 380 ACP Ammo – 1000 rounds 95 Grain FMJ – $270 (.27/rd delivered) • 22 LR Ammo – 3330 rounds 36 Grain CPHP – $200 (.06/rd delivered)It’s only Tuesday and the sales are trickling in already. Gonna be an expensive week!
Black Friday – CheapAmmo.com
The notices of Black Friday (or Friday Of Color, for those of the woke persuasion) sales continue to land in my mailbox. Case in point from CheapAmmo.com:
Prices have been dropping and will continue dropping as supply ramps up and demand is flat or falling.
However, look closely at sales like these and ask a couple questions:
– what is shipping and do they charge sales tax? Beware that some “great deals” charge over $50 to ship a case of 9mm (actual example from 2 weeks ago).
-The more important question: what brand and load is on sale? Does it have a reputation for quality or just the opposite? Many of these deals are unknown brands that may be less than fully reliable.
Personally, I’m willing to pay a little more to get consistent performance. I want to be able to trust everything I have enough to use it for defense if in dire straits.
like any issue, ammo has a lot of facets. On one hand the only time you may have too much ammo is when you are swimming. My uncle hit Omaha beach in WWII with 80 rounds on him, he said ‘…you didn’t worry about ammo it was laying everywhere…’ In a defensive rifle class, taught by two guys just back from real life combat the sand box, related they had never changed magazines or fired on full auto in two years of war.
If we look at the war in Ukraine how many of the casualties, on both sides, are from small arms fire? A modern war is about logistics, intelligence, communications, artillery, bombs and drones. A shit ton of ammo didn’t do the folks in Waco any good, Randy Weaver didn’t solve his problems with ammo. Problems are solved with intelligence, planning and avoidance. The best battle is the one you don’t have to fight.
We do feel better about having a couple pallets of ammo in the bunker but $50 bills are probably going to be more important than 50 BMG, I’m hedging my bets by having both.
Agreed. Scrutinize those deals for the mentioned particulars. (Some east euro ammo companies are good value/quality) Also one may want to patronize one chosen favorite vendor just for the sake of limiting your data information being spread all over the continental United States like crumbs of intelligence that lead back to your hermitage location. Ammo is a very fast consumable in sporty times, more so than all that canned chow in the pantry. Even the loner hermit types must stock inventories for those new frens and chums you’ll be making in the future out innawoods. Stay stocked and frosty.
Well, thanks for the heads up. I took advantage of some of the pricing.
I got in my ammo today. Although I make a mistake on my order, the “Mystery brand” 5.56 turned out to be IMI, so I saved $80 over the current price. And, in my experience, IMI is good quality ammo.
Thanks for the tip.
Nothing more than click bait at this time!! Have yet to find that so call .20 cents a round 9mm on their site. Has anyone found any of the listed ammo priced as listed above?
Tip of the hat to CZ, picked up 380 at the above listed price of 27 cents per, best price I’ve seen in a while.
It posted today for .20 cent 9mm from a mystery manufacturer. The mystery part did it for me. Nope
My mystery 9mm and mystery 45 will arrive Tuesday. I’ll report on which brands they are.
Arrived today. The 9mm is Remington 115 range fodder. The .45 is Speer lawman 230. Fmj
Picked up some 9mm for
$.26 at my local sgs. Supporting local and no internet trail. Can’t reload it for that right now.
Thanks for the heads up!!! My cheap 5.56 “mystery” showed up as IMI! Very pleased.