Cheap ammo

mbz300sdl · Feb 6, 2011

jmira said:
make sure your local range allows steel core ammo before you buy the cheap stuff..

Steel core and steel cased is different steel core is steel in the actual bullet/projectile and steel cased is the case which can be steel/Alum/brass

jmira · Feb 6, 2011

I know this.. just saying the 'cheap stuff' listed above is most likely both steel cased and steel core.

squeky · Feb 6, 2011

Boy do I have info for you:

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bean93x · Feb 6, 2011

aim surplus usually has good deals on ammo.

Baccusboy · Feb 7, 2011

Are some people anti-steel-cased ammo because they can't reload the steel casings and hate having it mixed-in with brass on the floor at their range?

Does that have anything to do with the $10 extractor argument I read above? Or can steel be reloaded?

BlueFin · Feb 7, 2011

I use a lot of 45ACP and 9MM CCI Blazer Aluminum or Brass. Better quality and cheaper than some pricey ammo.

rayg5102 · Feb 7, 2011

I live in Frederick, I have an XDM 9mm and I shop at Walmart for my ammo
Winchester White Box
100 round
9mm
115 grams
FMJ

$23.00 per box of 100

have had no problems with it in two years.

love the gun too

jodavk · Feb 7, 2011

The last couple times I stocked up on 9, I waited till Cabelas had bulk ammo sale & free shipping...and ordered 500 rnds (1000 rnds once also) and got Herters (Russsian, I think) and the plastic bulk ammo boxes. The stuff runs fine in my Glocks and Hi-Point carbines. I use a Cabelas card and get points ($) on my orders; pay off monthly and avoid interest. My cheapest way to go...other than scavengers luck gunshow finds.

mbz300sdl · Feb 7, 2011

I got some ammo for sale both .45ACP and 9mm in the Classifieds.

El_flasko · Feb 7, 2011

jeepin13 said:
Looking like its going to be a Springfield Armory Xdm 9mm

Nice choice, and it will eat anything you feed it. I personally shoot a lot of Winchester white box for just plinking. It's dirty, but cheap target stuff.

Glockamole · Feb 7, 2011

Ammotogo.com has geco 9mm for a really good price of about 9 bucks per box. It is very clean ammo. I have shot hundreds of rounds of those so far. As some had suggested, it was said that it is NATO rounds, and so it's +p ammo. The recoil does not seem like +p, to say the least, when compared to the Speer gold dot 9mm +p I have shot in the range.

Does anyone know if Geco 9mm really is +p rounds??? The box does not say anything about muzzle velocity and there is no company website that gives this info.

Thanks

tball · Feb 7, 2011

The XD is a nice gun.

edhallor · Feb 8, 2011

Baccusboy said:
Are some people anti-steel-cased ammo because they can't reload the steel casings and hate having it mixed-in with brass on the floor at their range?

Does that have anything to do with the $10 extractor argument I read above? Or can steel be reloaded?

The Steel Case is not Re loadable, most is also Berdan Primed even if one would try to argue it is. (It's Not)

In purchasing Ammo on-line don't neglect to add Shipping Cost.

If you shoot a lot and want to save, start reloading. There is plenty of free Spent 9MM Brass at the Range, even if you buy Plated Bullets rather than cast your own Lead you will be between $3-$4 a Box maybe less.

Ed

If you opt to purchase Brass Ammo and don't want the Spent Brass send it my way. If you have .38 Spcl or .45 ACP send that along as well.

Ed

FFMike · Feb 8, 2011

Locally, Walmart.

jaredm1 · Feb 8, 2011

It depends on how many boxes you buy. If you buy at WalMart, you pay sales tax. If you buy online, you pay shipping. If it is a dollar or two less per box online, you will eventually save money if you buy enough boxes at once, but you'll have to calculate where that savings occurs.

I will buy it either way, depending on availability...if I'm in WalMart and it's right in front of me, I won't bother with looking for a slightly better deal online.

OIFusaf · Feb 9, 2011

i have put about 2000 rds of steel case ammo through my glock 17 and another 2000 through my cobray M11 and did not have any malfunctions at all!!!!
i love the stuff

bmidd31 · Feb 9, 2011

Westminster, Eldersburg, and Hampstead Walmart's all have ammo. Carroll County is covered...

booker · Feb 10, 2011

Try sportsmansguide, luckygunner, impact guns, and budsgunshop for some online prices. Google for their sites.

For hotter loads, DoubleTap, BuffaloBore, Georgia Arms.

You can definitely save by buying online if you buy in bulk, a lot of places give free shipping for larger orders, so you skirt tax and shipping charges. But, you might be buying 1000+ rounds, for $300-500 range or more. Upside, it doesn't go bad (in any reasonable amount of time), and if you enjoy shooting, it's there when you want to shoot.

cobra · Feb 11, 2011

My Xd has shot every brand ammo I feed it.
Buy a few box's of the cheap stuff and see how it shoots and feeds.
At worse you'll need to clean the gun a bit more often.
I too buy ammo at Wallmart when avalible. Much depends on what store you go to and what they keep in stock.
If not I buy at local gun shops but buy bulk when in WV.
For range ammo I mostlly shoot Eagle brand.
The Russian made ammo has so far been the dirtyest ammo I've shot.
But I clean my guns after every session so it really does'nt matter much

Dead Eye · Feb 11, 2011

I just sent Blazer a letter, regarding their .357 mag ammo. I bought several boxes, at Walmart, of their aluminum cased ammo. Unless I drench the cylinder with gun oil, prior to loading, the aluminum casings get stuck and will not extract from the cylinder without me literally prying them out, one at a time, after they have been fired. I don't know if it is an expansion issue, heat, or a combination of both, but it is a nuissance none the less. I ONLY run brass cased ammo through my Ruger GP-100, now. Blazer responded and said that they would look into the issue.

Update: Elkton, Northeast, Aberdeen, and Abingdon Walmarts all carry ammo.

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