7.62x39 inflation!?

[rally guy]

I have ben around the shooting sport over 2 years now, I notice crates of 7.62x39 seem to go up 20$ a year and I am worried that it might sore come fall with paranoya for the supposetly december end of the wold?

What your take?

 

[tiriaq]

Wait until the supply dries up.
Then there will be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.

At one time 7.62x39 was very difficult to obtain.
Could happen again. There is serious international pressure to stop the sale of surplus arms and ammunition.

 

[rally guy]

So people that have been around this caliber for 10-15 years what did you do? Are yoh stock up or am I thin-hat-fulling?

 

[IM_Lugger]

I am worried that it might sore come fall with paranoya for the supposetly december end of the wold?

What do you mean supposedly?

You can always start reloading for it when ammo dries up. Should still be cheaper than factory.

 

[tiriaq]

What do you mean supposedly?

You can always start reloading for it when ammo dries up. Should still be cheaper than factory.

Won't be cheaper than M43 surplus.

 

[saskcop]

Buy it cheap and stack it deep!

 

[Stevo]

What saskcop said.

When you can get 1440 rounds of Chinese surplus delivered to your door for under $0.20 a round, you can't call it expensive.

 

[Mandown!]

Got myself 2000+ rounds for mine, im good for now

 

[Mandown!]

lever arms in van sells cases of 1400 non corrosive for like 399 i think, if i could afford to shoot non corrosive i would

 

[Dakk]

You can always start reloading for it when ammo dries up. Should still be cheaper than factory.

I've heard that the cheap milsurp stuff is mostly Berdan primers and a royal pain to reload.


I've only got 500+ rounds of the M43, but I plan to buy a few boxes of the softpoint stuff, just in case I need to use the rifle for hunting. Even in a crisis situation where you might be tempted to hunt with the FMJ milsurp, it would apparently be lousy stuff to work with, since the M43 had an issue with drilling too finely (relative to other FMJ) through flesh.

 

[Mandown!]

I didnt think you could even reload the steel case stuff?

 

[umcalleg]

just snatched up 3 800 round cases of corrosive, that should be enough to wear out a couple sks barrels so now i need to buy more 7.62 x 39 guns before they run dry as well. Slippery slope....

 

[Stevo]

2400 rounds won't wear out anything.

 

[plinker 777]

That's why there's the pointy thing on a hinge. Ammo, who needs ammo..."when the man in front falls, pick up his rifle and continue comrade"

 

[Dad003]

and if he doesn't have a gun ? or no bullet -_- , stock it ! more bullet we will never have enough bullet !

 

[supernova]

so who has the best deal on Chinese non corrosive with shipping?

 

[ghostntheshell]

Try shooting 7.5x55 and finding GP11

 

[Stevo]

Try shooting 7.5x55 and finding GP11

Tradex has it.

 

[SandRoad]

If they have it in stock, Lebaron has Yugoslavian surplus, 1320 for $207. But I don't think they ship ammo.

Tradex often has ammo. I picked up a few cases last year, but was a little disappointed because it was dated quite old, early 60's

 

[.30/06 FTW]

Tradex has it.

SFRC has it too.

To the OP, have you been looking at prices for just the Czech stuff? When Lebaron had that Russian stuff in I'm pretty sure it was cheaper per round than the Czech stuff.