Tell me about the old days and ammo......

**Droff** · 01-14-2013, 10:25 PM

Before everything got stupid, what was a decent price for .223 or 5.56mm for an AR15? I'd like to know what was considered within reason.
Thanks...

**Surveyor1653** · 01-14-2013, 10:31 PM

Once, before things went full retard, there was a place called Cheaper Than Dirt. This place sold steel-case .223 for $0.25 per round, shipped. NO, it's true! Then they went to the Douche side of the force, people started buying ammo for guns they didn't own, and there was no ammo to be found anywhere except under condition of prison-rape-like prices and deep self-loathing.

**AKguy1985** · 01-15-2013, 05:38 AM

I remember when privi .223 was $4 and change a box at academy.

**Droff** · 01-15-2013, 08:43 AM

So if I run across it somehwere between $0.25 and $0.50/round, I should be pretty happy about it?
No, I haven't.

**oldkar** · 01-15-2013, 09:18 AM

american eagle , black box 20 rd. was 4.99 at academy. april 2012

**Nimaro** · 01-15-2013, 10:40 AM

The good ol days...

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**jediz** · 01-15-2013, 10:48 AM

How about xm193 $100 per 500?

**Jon3830** · 01-15-2013, 08:37 PM

in 2000 I was paying 109.00 per 1000rd of wolf 55hp delivered and I was paying something like 36.00 for a 200rd battle pack of port 7.62x51 I made more money then and I wish I would have bought more and shot less.

**Shadowrider** · 01-15-2013, 09:01 PM

Here ya go. I'm sure someone can top this, but you get the idea...

**ssgrock3** · 01-15-2013, 10:42 PM

not long ago, $315/1000 for freedom arms reman was too darn high.

**fluxed** · 01-15-2013, 11:56 PM

I was paying 115.00/1000 in an ammo can, for SS109 with once fired Lake City brass up until about 1998.

**dlbleak** · 01-16-2013, 01:52 PM

academy used to put the monarch steel on sale around christmas for 3.99

**dennishoddy** · 01-16-2013, 02:12 PM

[QUOTE=Shadowrider;2063977]Here ya go. I'm sure someone can top this, but you get the idea...

HA! When I get home, I'll post a pic of a box of 50, .38 special for a little over $3.

**ignerntbend** · 01-16-2013, 02:30 PM

I have a box of 30-30 Winchester with an Otasco price tag of $7.89.
You could have bought three bags of groceries or over a tank full of gasoline for that amount.
Perspective.

**10Seconds** · 01-16-2013, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by ignerntbend

I have a box of 30-30 Winchester with an Otasco price tag of $7.89.
You could have bought three bags of groceries or over a tank full of gasoline for that amount.
Perspective.

Very true, inflation considered we have been pretty fortunate with ammo pricing up til now.