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

Thats good info. Thanks. I don't feel bad about the purchase then. I won $104.00 lastnight in Winnemucca, so that more than paid for the bullets. Ha ha. Its been a good bullet buying run so far. Found some 30 cal Barnes ttsx, hornady 123gr v-max 7.62x39 (bought 2 boxes, they had 4)), 500 22cal 77gr SMK, 30 cal 168gr match bthp hornady bullets and 600 hornady fmj. One store had 10 boxes of hornady 348 bullets. Same store had these bullets in August when I drove through. Someone here asked about them and said they called and the store owner said they didnt have any. Someone was lying out their azz on that one.

Yeah the stuff is where you find it if you are there when they got it. Local Scheels had 140 bthp 6.5 hornady bullets this AM but at 40.00/100 I didn't see any fights over them. Mb

Just bthp? No eld match? The way its looking is its going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Stores here in northern Nevada have jacked up their prices pretty high. One shop i was in yesterday had a bunch of 22lr on the shelves behind the counter. Bulk boxes of federal hps for $75.00, a box of federal 800 rounds per box for $159.00. I asked if they were selling much at that price and the guy behind the counter said its cheaper than gunbroker. I said good luck, I used to like this shop.

The 55gr Hornadys are pretty good shooters as far as FMJ's go. I have never had much luck with any other brand of FMJ in ar's or bolt rifles, but I can get Hornady 55 fmj to shoot around an inch @ 100yds with H335,& AA2015.,
I would never waste my money on other brands, some say Bob's Bullets FMJ's are right up there with Hornady's IDK.
Johnnys reloading bench on You Tube has him shooting them seemed to be doing pretty good in his shoot out.
Hornady sp's are a good cheap bullet if you can find any, they shoot a little tighter.

Scheels in Reno had 21 boxes of the 69gr SMK. 500/box for $159.99. I bought 1 box. Not the best deal, but not too inflated, like many other shops in the area. I cant believe the damn prices here. The usual response is, "its cheaper than gunbroker ".

Yep, they had 100 boxes of hornady 30 cal 175gr BTHP for $45.00/box. I said, "holy chidt, I better put those back. No wonder there's so many there". The cute young girl there got a kick out of what I said.

I can't think of any circumstance under which I'd buy 55FMJ bullets as components.

Midway has them for ,15 per bullet 55 gr Hornady

I am still buying stuff I can use but not really hurting for, but not for jacked up or scalper prices. I 've allways worked at keeping stocked up on stuff I use especially when it's there to be bought at a bargain price. I've helped out a few people I know but damn why give a good god damn if others don't care enough about it to take care of their own inventory? I've taken the time to tip off people about the lack of supply and prices for the stuff they use and still they get caught without.. I guess for alot of folks until they get burned more than a few times it just doesn't do any good to tell them that something is hot. Probably damned closet Biden voters anyway.

They arent my first choice either, but chidt is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. If I run across bullets at a small shop that hasnt raised prices exponentially, im going to buy them. Not a great deal, by any means, but much better than they are going to be. I drove to Reno yesterday to see what a tucked away shop had and the guy has a lot of stuff, but he too has raised his prices. He said hes sold so much on gunbroker that hes thinking about retiring. 200,000 primers at $200.00/brick. Pallets of 9mm ammo, etc etc. He said one thing he didnt have was a bunch of powder. In his shop he had bullets, but they were over priced. $68.00/box of hornady interlocks. I walked out of there with an unopened box of Swift scirocco II 30cal 165gr for $30.00, an old box of 6.5 140gr sierras for $20.00, and a baggie of 100 hornady 150gr 30 cal interlocks for$15.00. He said that was the old price, but he would honor it since he knew me and knew "I drove from Oregon". From what im seeing though is a lot of shops here are charging way more than shops in Oregon, but its just a matter of time before everyone follows suit.

I agree with you and do exactly the same thing you do. Im very stocked up on stuff as well. What im seeing though makes me worry about whats ahead. I hope everyone here is plenty stocked up because its going to be a bumpy ride for a while.

Picked up some from Scheels for $11.95, but they only allow two boxes.

Just me but prices the way they are this is the dumbest time to buy bullets etc. ever.

We try like heck to avoid having to.

I hear the hornady fmj shoot ok. But I've never tried and never seen a ball bullet that would do better than about 2moa and I didn't like that. Rather spend a bit more. More accuracy. Terminal performance etc...

But like normal I am making a list for when/if things back to the next new normal. Things I had not thought of last go round. Like 3030 bullets etc...

And God forbid we run out of super colibri again. I swear I'll buy a case of them regardless and a case of CCI prefrag sub sonics this go round. LOL

Happened a box of 500 hornady for 70 in a pawnshop bought them , too high . Used to giving 9.00 a 100 locally

Found these in Indiana at the Atterbury Shooting Complex. Ask for John. 500ct for $69.99.

What is "dumb" is not buying a box of bullets when it's a good deal. In times like these, this is the deal I look for:

The reason I started this thread was to see how much the 55gr FMJ's sell for, as I never buy them. I'm not out there buying up all the high priced bullets. Those stay on the shelves...

I can't think of any reason to buy any FMJ's other than Hornady's FMJ's. Other makes are total junk, they shoot with Russian steel fmjunk.