Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles How much would you pay for 55gr fmj pills?

Ran across some today for $15.00/100. Is that a good deal? I bought a box of 500 sierra 77smk yesterday for $140.00. That was a no brainer, but I never buy fmj.

Where did you find 77mk for that price? Local or online?

You can find generic 55 fmj online for 11-12 cents sometimes. My LGS has Hornady 55 SP for 20 cents, which seems high to me.

I just grabbed 600 Hornady 75 bthp the other day for about 25 cents. Edit: my math sucks. They were about 21 cents.

I found the 77smk at a small gunshop in southern oregon. I saw the sam bullets in Portland for $179 or $199. Cant remember exactly, but I knew that price was too steep. $140 was more to my liking. I would have bought more, had they had more. The 55gr fmj are hornady. If $15/100 is reasonable, I may buy some. Would make cheap plinking ammo if nothing else.

For plinking - MOA of mass, probably OK.

Most 55 grain FMJ I've found casually on-line - "without getting into the "secret website" that nobody else knows about" debate - seem to be running 20 cents and up, YMMV.

15 cents for hornady 55 fmj isn't bad. The generic fmj are only 3 or 4 cents cheaper.

Thanks john. Im assuming powder valley and midsouth. I appreciate your input. The nice thing about these is they are right in front of me. I snagged 600.

Local shop has 77gr matchkinks for $142.00 for 500, I only have a 1-9 twist so I pass on them, it likes the 69gr matchkings

Thanks for your input. Much appreciated

Thats a great deal. I love the 69smk too. My rifles are 1in8 and like the 77's as well.

I bought 500 55gr SPBT Hornady last week for $15 a hundred from Midsouth. I don’t have much use for the 55fmj, they usually aren’t very accurate in my experience and they don’t do anything for me over the SP or HP of the same weight.

I don’t plink much but I used to buy IMI 55gr ball or American Eagle when it was $6 or $7 a box just to have around, of course those days are past.

LGS today had Hornady and IMI for 13 bucks per 20.

Midsouth has them for $15/100 so I’d not pay much more than that for them locally. I too prefer the 55 gr SP over them as the SP you can at least use to hunt with too and they generally aren’t much more if any at all.

Midsouth had the 55spbt for $15/100 a few minutes ago when I looked. In case anyone needs some.

How do the 55 grain FMJ bullets shoot? I've never bought any for handloading, but have tried a variety of factory ammo loaded with such bullets (by different makers I presume) and none of them provided better than mediocre accuracy, if that.

A pill??

This.


This past summer I drew the line at 10 damned cents per bullet and stocked up. 55sp, 52 and 53 hp and sp. Not much BC. If my supply ever runs out, I'll re-evaluate. I splurged on larger caliber SP bullets, some up to twenty cents a piece! Kicking self for slacking off on the primer buying though.

Last year at this time $45/500 hornady bulk box now $ 16/100 + If you can find any. The 55 fmj Hornady is my basic bullet for practice with AR's and the 55gr SP hornady the basic dog killer they used to be 10 cents a piece in 500 ct bulk boxes now if you can find them the are 20 cents a piece in 100 ct boxes around here. You asked .Mb

A local store was "selling" Federal 150 round, 55 grain, promo packs at $399 two weeks ago when I stopped in.

Helluva deal........................LOL.

Someboby'll just on it though.

MM

Same 150 rd promo pack at my local LGS was $120 that was the best deal I've seen in awhile on commercial bulk packs although Cabelas/asspro had white box WW with 5.56 x45 label at 13.99/20 the other day. One of the associates told me 2 box limit per customer and 2 cases lasted less than 10 minutes. Mb