Are you talking JHP (home / personal defense) or FMJ (plinking) ammo?Where are you buying 38 Special, 40 S&W or .45ACP cheaper than 9mm? I can find 9mm for $0.18 / round (new brass-cased). Those other rounds are at last one and a half times that cost. If you can come even close to that price for the other rounds, let me know! I want to buy there!
Are you talking JHP (home / personal defense) or FMJ (plinking) ammo?
For plinking purposes, 9mm is cheapest (except for .22lr) per round.
For home / personal defense, 9mm has become more costly per round, compared to other calibers, mainly due to demand!
It's in the home / personal defense category that other calibers are equal to or cheaper per round.
The question still stands of where, then? I'm not seeing .45 Auto or Colt equal to or cheaper than 9mm anywhere. .38 Special is on par, but slightly more.
45 Colt hovers up there in 44 magnum range...$50 plus
ouch lol
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If you don't practice, cost is mostly irrelevant.Does anyone else see 357 sig or 5.7 and think “we got some Richie Rich edc folks in here”!
I owned a 357 sig back in the 90s or early 2000s, when the FBI switched to it. Gosh was it expensive compared to 9mm.
How true THAT is!If you don't practice, cost is mostly irrelevant.
The key is to reload. It's not really any more expensive than 9mm when you roll your own. Plus, many folks with a .357 Sig, practice with .40. Simple barrel swap but same mags and recoil spring. .40 has a tad more recoil but otherwise feels very similar in my P229s.If you don't practice, cost is mostly irrelevant.
Name of store??? Thomlinson's in 'Busco, Wrigley's in Fort Wayne, Auburn Arms, etc.The question still stands of where, then? I'm not seeing .45 Auto or Colt equal to or cheaper than 9mm anywhere. .38 Special is on par, but slightly more.
They have some back in stock...didn't see it for awhile.I do have some .45 Super on the way from Underwood to try in my USP.
IDK...I can buy .38 Special, .40 S&W, and .45 acp cheaper than I can 9mm, and .380 acp is more expensive than 9mm at a LGS.
Name of store??? Thomlinson's in 'Busco, Wrigley's in Fort Wayne, Auburn Arms, etc.
The bigger name-brand box stores, such as Sportsman's Supply, Gander Mountain, etc., don't come close in pricing.
The cheapest 9mm plinking ammo I find is around $0.32 cents per round, per 50-round box, not including tax...and .45 acp is around $0.42 cents per round for comparable ammo.
Home / Personal Defense ammo is where the difference lies as a 20-round box of 9mm tends to run higher than other calibers, with some 9mm ammo running upwards of $32 per box.
A new gimmick to sell ammunition?
Handgun specific ammunition?
Obviously their new short barrel 9mm load.
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Where do you get your 158gr LWC at?Here is my snubby load. 158gr LWC 38spl at 1100fps from my M60 3". (From when I carried a revolver)
6th round just for pictures….lol
The Load came out of the Speer #8 manual.
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I cast them myself. They come in at 160gr. It’s a really old mold. Only 2 cavity. Takes forever to cast a bunch!Where do you get your 158gr LWC at?
Or do you cast them yourself?
All I can find to buy is 148gr LWC.