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Albinorhino
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31 Mar ’12 - 10:57 pm
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I know everyone is always looking for ammo deals. I usually buy from Dicks sporting goods when they have the buy 1 get 1 50% off sale. Walmart always seems to be out of stock around here.

While doing PM's on a mall around here I dropped in Bass Pro Shops to browse for a min and check prices. I was very surprised to see how cheap a lot of the ammo was. I always had this place pegged for inflated prices.

I ended up getting 4 100 count boxes of 9mm winchester white box @ 22 per box (before tax). Thats not to bad usually a 50 round box is 14-16 at dicks. They even had .357 in white box which I haven't seen before. This wasn't even a sales prices either.

Find any bargins on ammo or find deals online (promos), Please post them here!

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Many ammo prices have been increasing recently.

Hear tale that demand is up as well.

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Since the anti-gun groups are losing case after case because of the 2nd Amendment they have started to focus on ammo. It's a gray line but it isn't the first time they have stepped over it. You will see more of this and it will wind up before the SCOTUS when all is said and done. The cost for lead is going up like crazy making it more costly to even do reloads.

I myself have started to look into learning how to do reloading. I'm going to take a class on it mid-summer if I have time.

http://www.bulkammo.com/ they have decent prices but like everything shop around. When I get on my laptop I'll post a few links of sights that have pretty good deal. I just can't remember them off the top of my head.

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HG did you find a closer class than what was listed on the NRA site?

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I'm headed to Utah to run a team starting this summer and have a buddy who owns http://www.strategic.....group.com/. He has everything from basic pistol classes on up. Take a look at some of the stuff he is teaching or having taught at his school this yr. It includes everything from basic Ham radio to medical(I'm going to give him a hand as I was a Medic). He brings in the right people if it's out of his wheelhouse which is smart.

Here's a video a couple guys shot on his latest "Zombie Apocalypse" class. It was a fun way to teach people good techniques while having fun.

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He has a couple reload classes so I'll catch one there if I have the time but as a site commander I'll have the time lol.

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First thanks guys, I did not realize there are classes on reloading, that would be an interesting class.

To the OP, the white box deals like you mentioned are a good way to build an inventory.

For example, I know a guy that decided every couple of weeks to pick up a white box of 9mm, built a small inventory, then moved on to another caliber.

Maybe everybody already knows about these sites, but just in case:

https://www.ammoman.com/

^^^ shipping included in price.

Good prices, sometimes the best prices I have found on certain items, but not always a large variety in inventory.


http://www.ammunitio...../index.php

Great variety, good prices on certain items, and very detailed description of product.

And remember you can always use the "shipping cost estimator" on the site to compare apples to apples on the final cost against a site like ammoman that includes shipping in the price of ammo.

As mentioned by HG shop around, one site may have the best price on 1 item, and another site the best on the second item.

For example ammoman price on prvi partizan 308 used to be so cheap compared to others that I used to wonder if something was wrong. Don't worry the site just increased the cost of the item by $50 per 1,000, but is still cheaper than other sites.

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Quote from Hired Gun on April 1, 2012, 20:23

I'm headed to Utah to run a team starting this summer and have a buddy who owns http://www.strategic.....group.com/. He has everything from basic pistol classes on up. Take a look at some of the stuff he is teaching or having taught at his school this yr. It includes everything from basic Ham radio to medical(I'm going to give him a hand as I was a Medic). He brings in the right people if it's out of his wheelhouse which is smart.

Here's a video a couple guys shot on his latest "Zombie Apocalypse" class. It was a fun way to teach people good techniques while having fun.

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holy hell that looks awesome, that's the one bad side of living in maine is not a lot of training options. This is the only school I know of in maine, but they do offer a reload class

http://www.weaponcra.....ining.com/

we also have the sis sauer school in nh, I see they are running a zombie class now to

http://www.sigsauera.....urseID=195

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