What are your 9's costing you these days?

[Steve Koski]

Per round...

[Bush Pilot]

Less than factory.

[BigSlick]

Castin, I'm still under $2/100

Jacketed or plated is about $6/100

If ya figure in da brass figure another $2/100

[Steve Koski]

Oh come on Slick. Primers are more than 2 cents each. You crappin' powder for free?

[Shovel66]

Unless I start casting, I'm right at $0.102 per round of 9mm for 115gr FMJ. Yes, lead would be cheaper but would require an aftermarket barrel for my 9mm Glocks. Still about 50% less than the cheapest factory ammo.

[MakeMineaP99]

Let's see:

1000

Condom bullets: $60
Powder: $10
Primers:$20

$90/1000--->$4.50/box

Those numbers are rounded up, primers are somewhere between $17-$18/1000 and powder is cheaper, but I don't feel like crunching numbers.

[BigSlick]

Oh come on Slick. Primers are more than 2 cents each. You crappin' powder for free?

Well, I don't buy primers by da day, an I been usin some I picked up for $12/1000 a while back.

Powder come from PV, picked up at Tulsa time before last, no shippin, no hazmat. 4 8lb'ers @ $82 at a whack

Lead as I find it, an my time don't figure in.

All da numbers gonna change real soon though, I'm outta stuff ta make em with after I run about one more can or so. Prolly go up maybe $1.70/100

[Oreo]

Damn, I'm jeallous of you guys shooting for that kind of chump change. 100rds of .40 cost me $13-$14. It sickens me to think that every time I go to the range & blow 100rds you guys could go & shoot 700rds for the same cost.

If I had gotten into this hobby only 2 months sooner!!

[creophus]

Oreo, go to walmart and ask them how much for a box of 40 WWB.

Then you'll feel better.

[nitesite]

Using Hornady HAP 124s per round = 13.5¢

[RustyFN]

$64 for 1,000 jacketed bullets.
$17 for 1,000 primers
$7 for powder

$88 for 1,000 rounds

[sparky241]

Its around $90.00 per thousand

[thorn]

.12-14 cents/rd. Need to cut that down, though.

thorn

[Shovel66]

$64 for 1,000 jacketed bullets.
$17 for 1,000 primers
$7 for powder

$88 for 1,000 rounds
RustyFN,
Where are you getting powder and primers from?!?!? It's a good $28-$31 per 1000 for primers anywhere I've seen around here and online.

Average powder price is $20 per pound. If there are 7000 grains per pound and an average of 5 grains per rounds for 9mm which equals $17.00 per 1000 in powder. Even if you buy in bulk, it would be slightly cheaper but not less than half.

Please let us all know your tricks so we can save the money you do.
Thanks,
Shovel

[MakeMineaP99]

Powder can be found for $10 ib in bulk.

Primers can still be had from Grafs for under $20/1000 with C&R.

[MullahElRon]

.12-14 cents/rd. Need to cut that down, though.

thorn

I a light a candle for ya.

[Shovel66]

Powder can be found for $10 ib in bulk.

Primers can still be had from Grafs for under $20/1000 with C&R.

VERY NICE!!! I haven't been able to get those prices even buying in bulk. :cheers2: I wounder if it's time for me to get a C&R?

[MakeMineaP99]

VERY NICE!!! I haven't been able to get those prices even buying in bulk. :cheers2: I wounder if it's time for me to get a C&R?

Yes! Get it yesterday!

[BigDog[RE]]

VERY NICE!!! I haven't been able to get those prices even buying in bulk. :cheers2: I wounder if it's time for me to get a C&R?


Wolf primers are still $19/k at powdervalley

[creophus]

;16010']Wolf primers are still $19/k at powdervalleyHow do wolf primers compare to CCI and Winchester?

[BigDog[RE]]

How do wolf primers compare to CCI and Winchester?

I've never used CCi primers, and I find that Winchester and Wolf are very similar. Keep in mind that I don't have a chrono, so I can't tell you the difference between the two.

[wrangler5]

I have just bought an HK P7 PSP and a SIG P6 - these are the German police turn ins that are currently available from a number of vendors. If I'm going to carry these guns for personal protection, the conventional wisdom is to NOT carry until you've fired at least 100 (some say 200) rounds of your "carry ammo" through a gun without failure.

OK, I carry 9mm Speer 124g Gold Dots (not the +P). From Midway, 200 rounds will cost me $188 (plus shipping, and tax because I live in MO.)

I have accumulated thousands of empty cases, so that's not a cost to me. I can (and do) buy the same Speer Gold Dot bullets as components. At current Midway prices (without shipping) I just loaded 200 rounds for $40 in bullets, $5.40 in primers (at 2.7 cents each), and $4.20 in powder (8.4g Accurate #7 duplicates factory velocity for me) for a total of right at $50, or a saving of $138.

Spending $50 to function check 2 guns (it's a nasty job, but somebody's got to do it, right?) is a lot more palatable than laying out $188. And having to watch all those empty 20-round boxes accumulate on the ground around me, reminding me that I'm burning up premium ammo.

With the savings, I can stock up on >1,000 FMJ bullets to load up as IDPA and practice rounds for those new guns. :wink5:

[Steve Koski]

Please don't use higher math here. Most of us didn't finish junior high.

[BigSlick]

I did, right after my 17th birfday.

Never forget it, I was so excited about goin ta high school I jus couldn't stand it. My mama was there, all a my uncles (da ones not doin a stretch anyway) an a couple a my cousins.

Most of em was a grade or two ahead a me, but dat sure made time in da lunch room fun ;)

[cohutt]

Please don't use higher math here. Most of us didn't finish junior high.
not everyone in the family can be the educated ones, right Uncle Jed?

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[RustyFN]

RustyFN,
Where are you getting powder and primers from?!?!? It's a good $28-$31 per 1000 for primers anywhere I've seen around here and online.

Average powder price is $20 per pound. If there are 7000 grains per pound and an average of 5 grains per rounds for 9mm which equals $17.00 per 1000 in powder. Even if you buy in bulk, it would be slightly cheaper but not less than half.

Please let us all know your tricks so we can save the money you do.
Thanks,
Shovel

I buy at Graf's with a C&R license. I just bought Wolf primers last week for a group buy for $80.99 per 5,000 and I can buy 8# jugs of powder for under $100. So I'm getting primers for a little over $16 per thousand and powder for a little over $12 per pound.
Rusty