The price of ammo, especially 5.56 and .223 is insane. Anyone know a good place to get decent ammo as a reasonable price? The prices at the gunshow last weekend were just short of robbery. Cheaperthandirt is over a buck a round now if they aren't sold out. Insanity I say!

I'm hoping for something less than 50 cents per for the NATO cartridges and less than 30 cents per for 7.62x39.

Not right now. You should have jumped on whatever you could a month ago.

Be careful of the chinese made ammo, total crap like everything else from china. If you are paying $2,000 for a Colt dont put shit ammo in it. Buy the good stuff. Drive a Mercedes then use premium gas, same thing.

I discovered Bulkammo.com a couple of months ago. Unfortunately right now, they are sold out of 5.56 and they have only Hornady .223 left.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2013 05:03PM by eesh.

I need some 5.7x28 ammo

Ralph Pootawn Wrote:
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> I need some 5.7x28 ammo





Please don't tell me you bought a Five-seveN or PS90...

PS90, yes

Bad experience with them?

Ralph Pootawn Wrote:
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> Bad experience with them?





No, it's just the 5.7 has the same stopping power as a .22 WMR


Just seems like an expensive range toy.

Cabelas is backordered right now but still taking orders. Its not the cheapest ammo you could ever find but they havent jacked up their prices either like everyone else

It's been illegal to import Chinese ammo into the U.S. since 1993, so I doubt anyone is selling Chinese ammo anymore.

eesh Wrote:
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> Just seems like an expensive range toy.

Pardon for noting the obvious, but aren't about 99.9999999% of ALL privately-owned guns nothing more than expensive range toys?

And that is NOT kidding.

[carrying a gun around and feeling protected doesn't make the gun anything more than an expensive range toy until it's actually USED to protect. I still support the right to bear arms, BTW - I'm just a little more of a realist than some out there, IMHO]

Anneal Wrote:
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> It's been illegal to import Chinese ammo into the
> U.S. since 1993, so I doubt anyone is selling
> Chinese ammo anymore.

It must be in some huge warehouse socked away I see it all the time

Olde Farte, II Wrote:
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> eesh Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Just seems like an expensive range toy.
>
> Pardon for noting the obvious, but aren't about
> 99.9999999% of ALL privately-owned guns nothing
> more than expensive range toys?
>
> And that is NOT kidding.
>
> [carrying a gun around and feeling protected
> doesn't make the gun anything more than an
> expensive range toy until it's actually USED to
> protect. I still support the right to bear arms,
> BTW - I'm just a little more of a realist than
> some out there, IMHO]




All this aside, my remarks about the 5.7 is that the caliber is designed for armor penetration, not stopping power.

Since civilians cannot own armor penetrating ammo, we are restricted to the target ammo for the PS90 and Five-SeveN. The ballistics for this caliber are similar to a .22 Magnum.

The pistol is about $1000 and the carbine is about the same price as a high end AR-15.

Anneal Wrote:
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> It's been illegal to import Chinese ammo into the
> U.S. since 1993, so I doubt anyone is selling
> Chinese ammo anymore.




Yep, the Chinese used steel rounds instead of lead for their AK-47 knockoffs as a cost cutting measure. It turned out the steel rounds can defeat light armor.


Russian ammo is widely available, with brands like Wolf, Brown Bear, and TULammo. The Russian ammo is junk though, extremely dirty and unreliable.

You can find old surplus Yugoslavian and Bulgarian ammo cheap online, but avoid it like the plague. Even into the 1990s the Eastern Bloc nations manufactured ammo with corrosive primers.

eesh Wrote:
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> You can find old surplus Yugoslavian and Bulgarian
> ammo cheap online, but avoid it like the plague.
> Even into the 1990s the Eastern Bloc nations
> manufactured ammo with corrosive primers.


But that just means you should clean you gun after firing that ammo, right?

Ralph Pootawn Wrote:
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> eesh Wrote:
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>
> > You can find old surplus Yugoslavian and
> Bulgarian
> > ammo cheap online, but avoid it like the
> plague.
> > Even into the 1990s the Eastern Bloc nations
> > manufactured ammo with corrosive primers.
>
>
> But that just means you should clean you gun after
> firing that ammo, right?



Yeah, very thoroughly and immediately after firing.

Corrosive ammo contains salts which will cause rust. Regular gun cleaners like Hoppes will not remove the salts. You must clean your gun with water to flush out the salts.

ggggg Wrote:
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> Corrosive ammo contains salts which will cause
> rust. Regular gun cleaners like Hoppes will not
> remove the salts. You must clean your gun with
> water to flush out the salts.


Shhhh, now you're in hot water with the anti gun coalition

Ralph Pootawn Wrote:
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> Bad experience with them?





No, it's just the 5.7 has the same stopping power as a .22 WMR


Just seems like an expensive range toy.




It has the stopping power of a .22 Hornet fom a 16 inch bbl.Cartridges(.22 Hornet,.22 Savage Hipower,.22WRM) in this range, can vary or be close together depending on different factors.IE: barrel length,factory mild vs factory wild.handloaded or bullet weight.

M3p4G Wrote:
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>
> It has the stopping power of a .22 Hornet fom a 16
> inch bbl.Cartridges(.22 Hornet,.22 Savage
> Hipower,.22WRM) in this range, can vary or be
> close together depending on different factors.IE:
> barrel length,factory mild vs factory
> wild.handloaded or bullet weight.





What a bunch of word soup.....factory mild vs factory wild? LMAO

A good website is called www.ammotogo.com. Good luck!!