Getting priced out of shooting.

[cfortune]

Actually, 500 bullets for $99 comes to a hair under $.20 a bullet

[HoneyBadger]

Well, food prices have gone up (on average) more than 20% just in 2014 so far:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-0...es-are-19-2014
http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveodl...rices-so-high/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...ising/6557417/


If ammo prices went up by 20% in 3 months, my guns would starve.

[Wulf202]

Airguns get me the most trigger time.

Plenty of dry fire and some airsoft.

[jerrymrc]

I just had an invite to go out to CRC on Friday. Probably the first opportunity to go shoot in 2 years. I thought once I retired I'd be shooting a lot more often. WRONG !!!! due to fixed income and current prices.

I know once I retire that I will shoot more. Yes I will have a fixed income but I buy components here and there but I started stocking up 10 years ago. some things I am a little short on in my mind but I said years ago when Wideners had CCI #35 for $75 a case that they would never go down,only up. Sad I only bought 2.

In my case the run up to retirement has me doing less shooting than we used to because work takes priority and the load has doubled in the last 5 years. I do know that the sacrifice I have made will mean that in 4 years my take-home pay in retirement will be more than now by a bunch since I take home less than 50% of my gross. All about priorities. Just hope I live another 20 to enjoy it.

[cap'n cook]

i feel like that every time i go to purchase ammo, reloading supplies, even food. the jobs pay the same as they did 10 years ago when i started working and the prices just keep going up. i started reloading last year and it has really helped me be able to shoot more on the tiny ammo budget that i have. it was a 50% decrease in ammo cost for my .243. i sure hope lead doesn't ever become completely banned. i think we would be seeing some real expensive ammo then.

[20X11]

This is part of the great Liberal conspiracy. Make sure the average man cant afford to shoot, loses interest in 2A rights, confiscate the guns they no longer care about.

[00tec]

1. Get cheap AR
2. Shoot Tula/wolf

Works for me. And I didn't clean the damn thing for ~1500 rounds or so, just gave it the occasional squirt of whatever leftover Mobil 1 or supercharger oil we had laying around.

[trlcavscout]

I pay 6 cents a round for 44mag and I won't pay a penny more! Well maybe a couple pennys more if push comes to shove. I was paying around $170 per thousand for 45, so I don't shoot it anymore.

[PSS]

I bought 1000 pounds of wheel weights off of craigslist for .45$ a pound, promo from Powder Valley for 11$ a pound, 10k Tula primers from Powder Valley for 12$ per K, and 5000 45 acp once fired cases for 45$ per k. right after reloading supplies started coming back after the first Obama scare. I cast my own bullets with a 6 banger mold and load on a Hornady LNL with a bullet feeder. I shoot my 45 as much as I want. Still possible to buy components at slightly higher prices. Just have to keep an eye out for when it's in stock.

When I first started casting a lot of my friends thought I was nuts. Kept telling me about how I was going to ruin my pistol. Now they don't shoot because they don't want to pay the extra cost. I guess they were half right. I'm wearing out my pistol quicker than they are.

Even if you cant or wont reload. Budgeting 100 to 300 a month for ammo should still allow some good shooting to happen. As long as you are employed. The 90s spoiled a lot of us. If you look at ammo prices in the 70s it will surprise you.

[Great-Kazoo]

I bought 1000 pounds of wheel weights off of craigslist for .45$ a pound, promo from Powder Valley for 11$ a pound, 10k Tula primers from Powder Valley for 12$ per K, and 5000 45 acp once fired cases for 45$ per k. right after reloading supplies started coming back after the first Obama scare. I cast my own bullets with a 6 banger mold and load on a Hornady LNL with a bullet feeder. I shoot my 45 as much as I want. Still possible to buy components at slightly higher prices. Just have to keep an eye out for when it's in stock.

When I first started casting a lot of my friends thought I was nuts. Kept telling me about how I was going to ruin my pistol. Now they don't shoot because they don't want to pay the extra cost. I guess they were half right. I'm wearing out my pistol quicker than they are.

Even if you cant or wont reload. Budgeting 100 to 300 a month for ammo should still allow some good shooting to happen. As long as you are employed. The 90s spoiled a lot of us. If you look at ammo prices in the 70s it will surprise you.

I have 2 local sources who hard cast.. Both of them were happy to get some more lead, both said, you need bullets call .