Fair price for one box on 9mm Luger ammo?

FunGramps · March 4, 2021, 02:11 PM

$16.95 for 50rd box of CCI Blazer 9mm Luger ball, brass case.

They had 4 boxes this morning, limit one per customer. I nabbed one.

Fair price?

shurshot · March 4, 2021, 03:03 PM

In March 2021? EXCELLENT price!!! Many are charging a buck per round for 115 grain hardball. If I were you, I would be there first thing in the morning to get another, or have a friend pick up another box tonight.

Shadow9mm · March 4, 2021, 03:41 PM

for right now, definitely. Best I have been seeing at the non price gouging locations is $28

hub1home · March 4, 2021, 04:11 PM

That's up to you as to whether or not it is a fair price. You bought it. But if it helps, I certainly would have bought it in a heartbeat.

upstate81 · March 4, 2021, 04:22 PM

Great price. Most guys are charging 20-40 around me in NY.

Death-Ninja · March 4, 2021, 04:39 PM

Most of the big-box outlets are selling 9mm as it comes in for decent prices, L&M had Winchester .45 230 gr ball for $24.95 for two days last week. 9mm will continue to straggle in and out, and its price if greater than that you paid, is questionable to say the least. The major online sellers, who I will not name because the site censors will likely pounce, all of those online vendors are gouging the crap out of their customers and that will never be forgotten.

dksck · March 4, 2021, 08:21 PM

Only place within 100 miles that has any 9mm is getting $99.99 per box of 50!

FunGramps · March 4, 2021, 09:20 PM

Sounds like I did well. This is a small town. It is a large co-op farm type chain. They focus on country clothes, boots, animals and tach, guns and ammo, gardening, animal food, fencing, live ducks, chickens, and on and on. GREAT store which tries to stock as much USA made items as they can.

I go there every morning on Thursdays to see if their truck brings ammo. Sometimes there is none.

DMK · March 13, 2021, 07:39 PM

This morning I was listening to the Dead Air Podcast (#3) on Youtube. They had a vendor on there who said that their ammo sales are up 200% (sales would be much higher if they could get more ammo). They will get their monthly pallet of ammo in and it is all sold within 3 days, even with limiting 2 boxes per customer.

Folks keep calling them asking why the don't get ammo in. They are getting much more ammo in than they did in 2019. It's just immediately sold out.

With that kind of seller's market, you can see why prices are out of control.

BillyBoy 57 · March 14, 2021, 05:20 PM

A very good price !!

jmr40 · March 14, 2021, 07:07 PM

$25-$30 seems the going rate if available. I walked into one local shop a couple of weeks ago and noted some 40, 380, and a few other items on the shelf. Guy told me he got a pallet of 9mm at 9AM. He sold it all @$28/box before Noon.

**Aguila Blanca** · March 14, 2021, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by jmr40

$25-$30 seems the going rate if available. I walked into one local shop a couple of weeks ago and noted some 40, 380, and a few other items on the shelf. Guy told me he got a pallet of 9mm at 9AM. He sold it all @$28/box before Noon.

What do these prices apply to? Is this 50-round boxes of 115-grain FMJ plinking ammo, or are these 20-round boxes of premium JHP self-defense ammo?

RickB · March 16, 2021, 12:06 PM

People are apparently paying $20 for fifty PRIMERS, so $17 for fifty loaded rounds of anything sounds like a good deal.

MarkCO · March 16, 2021, 12:15 PM

Decent price. I am seeing prices start to drop and slight increase in inventory. I hope primers come next.

I just sold a buddy a case of 9mm for $325 shipped since he could not find more than a box at a time for $20 where he lives.

Pistoler0 · March 16, 2021, 12:21 PM

I would say that is a very good price, I am jealous.

MarkCO, where do you buy ammo here in the front range or do you mainly buy online?

Nathan · March 16, 2021, 01:46 PM

I’m jealous....on Gunbroker SD ammo going for $1.20 per round. Locally practice ammo for $0.80 per round.

PolarFBear · March 16, 2021, 03:21 PM

Just finished loading 50 FMJs 9mm for .20/round - $10/box. .12 for the bullet, .05 for the primer and .03 for 4 grs of Unique. But, I am down to my last 1,526 Win Small Pistol Primers. Not looking forward to the price increases on supplies. But WILL NOT pay the current exorbitant price --- unless it becomes the new normal! And, maybe not even then. After all it is JUST a hobby.

MarkCO · March 16, 2021, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Pistoler0

I would say that is a very good price, I am jealous.

MarkCO, where do you buy ammo here in the front range or do you mainly buy online?

I don't buy rifle or pistol ammo. I reload. But, from various sources, I end up with it. Shotshells is about all, and in bulk when it is on sale.

Machine Gun Tours on W. Colfax has been keeping stuff on the shelf, so you might check there if you need rifle or pistol ammo. I'd have LFI order me a case of slugs here and there as well. But they don't have much in stock.

eflyguy · March 17, 2021, 05:54 AM

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Originally Posted by MarkCO

I just sold a buddy a case of 9mm for $325 shipped

Got any more of those?

It's that much per brick around here.

MarkCO · March 17, 2021, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by eflyguy

Got any more of those?

It's that much per brick around here.

Actually, that was my last full case. I've sold 10 cases of 9mm in the last 6 months at pre-panic prices...to friends. About 5K rounds have been loaded on my presses by friends and I have sold 2 presses and a bunch of components to friends.

I believe that the panic will end in a few months and if I seen bargains on stuff, I'll snatch up some if it makes sense to me. But like I said, I rarely buy and even more rarely shoot factory ammo.

Some of the stuff friends did not want I put up on Gunbroker. We will see how that goes.

March 4, 2021, 02:11 PM	#1
FunGramps Senior Member Join Date: September 27, 2018 Location: Leftern Washington Posts: 240	Fair price for one box on 9mm Luger ammo? $16.95 for 50rd box of CCI Blazer 9mm Luger ball, brass case. They had 4 boxes this morning, limit one per customer. I nabbed one. Fair price? __________________ Finding a wise liberal is as easy as inventing perpetual motion.

March 4, 2021, 09:20 PM	#8
FunGramps Senior Member Join Date: September 27, 2018 Location: Leftern Washington Posts: 240	Sounds like I did well. This is a small town. It is a large co-op farm type chain. They focus on country clothes, boots, animals and tach, guns and ammo, gardening, animal food, fencing, live ducks, chickens, and on and on. GREAT store which tries to stock as much USA made items as they can. I go there every morning on Thursdays to see if their truck brings ammo. Sometimes there is none. __________________ Finding a wise liberal is as easy as inventing perpetual motion.

March 13, 2021, 07:39 PM	#9
DMK Senior Member Join Date: November 18, 2001 Location: Over the hills and far, far away Posts: 3,206	This morning I was listening to the Dead Air Podcast (#3) on Youtube. They had a vendor on there who said that their ammo sales are up 200% (sales would be much higher if they could get more ammo). They will get their monthly pallet of ammo in and it is all sold within 3 days, even with limiting 2 boxes per customer. Folks keep calling them asking why the don't get ammo in. They are getting much more ammo in than they did in 2019. It's just immediately sold out. With that kind of seller's market, you can see why prices are out of control. __________________ - Homeland Security begins at home: Support your Second Amendment - www.gunowners.org - www.saf.org - act.nraila.org - www.grnc.org

March 14, 2021, 07:07 PM	#11
jmr40 Senior Member Join Date: June 15, 2008 Location: Georgia Posts: 10,808	$25-$30 seems the going rate if available. I walked into one local shop a couple of weeks ago and noted some 40, 380, and a few other items on the shelf. Guy told me he got a pallet of 9mm at 9AM. He sold it all @$28/box before Noon. __________________ "If you're still doing things the same way you were doing them 10 years ago, you're doing it wrong" Winston Churchill

March 16, 2021, 12:06 PM	#13
RickB Senior Member Join Date: March 1, 2000 Location: Boise, ID Posts: 8,518	People are apparently paying $20 for fifty PRIMERS, so $17 for fifty loaded rounds of anything sounds like a good deal. __________________ Runs off at the mouth about anything 1911 related on this site and half the time is flat out wrong.

March 4, 2021, 03:03 PM	#2
shurshot Senior Member Join Date: August 25, 2006 Posts: 1,819	In March 2021? EXCELLENT price!!! Many are charging a buck per round for 115 grain hardball. If I were you, I would be there first thing in the morning to get another, or have a friend pick up another box tonight.

March 4, 2021, 03:41 PM	#3
Shadow9mm Senior Member Join Date: March 21, 2012 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 3,973	for right now, definitely. Best I have been seeing at the non price gouging locations is $28 __________________ I don't believe in "range fodder" that is why I reload.

March 4, 2021, 04:11 PM	#4
hub1home Senior Member Join Date: November 15, 2014 Posts: 182	That's up to you as to whether or not it is a fair price. You bought it. But if it helps, I certainly would have bought it in a heartbeat.

March 4, 2021, 04:22 PM	#5
upstate81 Senior Member Join Date: October 20, 2011 Location: NY Posts: 801	Great price. Most guys are charging 20-40 around me in NY.

March 4, 2021, 04:39 PM	#6
Death-Ninja Member Join Date: February 4, 2020 Posts: 43	Most of the big-box outlets are selling 9mm as it comes in for decent prices, L&M had Winchester .45 230 gr ball for $24.95 for two days last week. 9mm will continue to straggle in and out, and its price if greater than that you paid, is questionable to say the least. The major online sellers, who I will not name because the site censors will likely pounce, all of those online vendors are gouging the crap out of their customers and that will never be forgotten.

March 4, 2021, 08:21 PM	#7
dksck Junior Member Join Date: May 4, 2014 Posts: 5	Only place within 100 miles that has any 9mm is getting $99.99 per box of 50!

March 14, 2021, 05:20 PM	#10
BillyBoy 57 Member Join Date: December 5, 2020 Posts: 74	A very good price !!

March 16, 2021, 12:15 PM	#14
MarkCO Senior Member Join Date: October 21, 1998 Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 4,308	Decent price. I am seeing prices start to drop and slight increase in inventory. I hope primers come next. I just sold a buddy a case of 9mm for $325 shipped since he could not find more than a box at a time for $20 where he lives. __________________ Good Shooting, MarkCO www.CarbonArms.us

March 16, 2021, 12:21 PM	#15
Pistoler0 Senior Member Join Date: November 15, 2019 Location: Conifer, CO Posts: 632	I would say that is a very good price, I am jealous. MarkCO, where do you buy ammo here in the front range or do you mainly buy online? __________________ Life is simply an inter-temporal problem of constrained optimization.

March 16, 2021, 01:46 PM	#16
Nathan Senior Member Join Date: July 1, 2001 Posts: 6,331	I’m jealous....on Gunbroker SD ammo going for $1.20 per round. Locally practice ammo for $0.80 per round.

March 16, 2021, 03:21 PM	#17
PolarFBear Senior Member Join Date: April 22, 2015 Location: NE Tennessee, a "Free State" Posts: 478	Just finished loading 50 FMJs 9mm for .20/round - $10/box. .12 for the bullet, .05 for the primer and .03 for 4 grs of Unique. But, I am down to my last 1,526 Win Small Pistol Primers. Not looking forward to the price increases on supplies. But WILL NOT pay the current exorbitant price --- unless it becomes the new normal! And, maybe not even then. After all it is JUST a hobby.