30-30 low priced ammo options available?

[Robert Nicholson]

I'm not ready to do reloading yet and my EE want to buy ad isn't working, gun shows haven't had any cheap 30-30 Win either.

Am I overlooking any other options for finding low priced, less than $1 each, 30-30 Win. ammo for plinking with?

 

[saskgunowner101]

I think you're looking for a unicorn. I get sticker shock when I look at any factory ammo prices these days.

 

[mossyhorns]

If you find 30-30 ammo for less then $20 a box let me know. Those days are behind us now. I see the odd one for $25 but usually it's $30 or better these days.

 

[crogers]

I bought some Winchester Super X 30-30 from Wholesale sports around fathers day for under $20 a box.

 

[cyclops666]

You really should get into reloading, even if it's just with a Lee loader. 30-30 is an easy cartridge to start on with lots of options for loads. It's so much cheaper to roll your own.

Just 2 years ago I was paying $11 a box

 

[saskcop]

Yes, "low price" and "ammo" these days certainly seldom is seen in the same sentence. I was in Cabelas and WSS today and there was nothing in the way of inexpensive .30-30 ammo. Hornady Leverevolution ammo was $43 a box! That is nuts for .30-30, I don't care what kind of bullets they are.

 

[Brutus]

The one and only draw back with most 30-30 hand loads; constant trimming with every single firing cycle.

 

[saskcop]

Remember the $9.99 a box days?

 

[inthehizzy]

Even reloading is getting expensive. Even if you have the brass, you're looking at $40-50/lb. for powder, plus the $25-$45/100 for projectiles, then about $5-6/100 large rifle primers. The last plinking .30-30 ammo I put together with Win. brass, 150gr. PowerPoints and CCI large rifle primers came out at about .80cents/round.

 

[heronfish]

And here I was considering 3030 the cheapest round going at a buck a pull.

 

[Dake21]

I still see 30-30 at 19.99 around.

 

[savage112]

less than $1 each, 30-30 Win. ammo for plinking with?

That is funny.

 

[Raton57]

Remember the $9.99 a box days?

You must be a kid I have 30-30 ammo here that I paid $5:50 a box for and there was no tax in those days.

 

[saskcop]

You must be a kid I have 30-30 ammo here that I paid $5:50 a box for and there was no tax in those days.

I remember days where it was in fact cheaper than $9.99, but I didn't want to admit it because it gives away alot about my age!

 

[Robert Nicholson]

That is funny.

 

[EL34/6L6]

I can still find it for $18 & $19 a box around these parts. Not much of a plinker cartridge though. I'll shoot a box at the range and then move on to the next rifle.

On another note, if there was a cheap source for it, posting the location of it here would lead to some dolt member buying it all up...thus dashing any prospect of you finding some.

 

[yomomma]

I cast and reload...about $0.30/rnd No issue shooting a hundred or so in a sitting.

 

[Robert Nicholson]

I cast and reload...about $0.30/rnd No issue shooting a hundred or so in a sitting.

I guess I'm going to have to start reloading

 

[EL34/6L6]

I guess I'm going to have to start reloading

I'd personally rather spend my time fishing and shooting. Sitting at a reloading bench is not my idea of a good time. So I'll pay to play. Bigger issue for some than others.

 

[lowe160]

I was at the range sighting in a 336 I had just put a different scope on. First five shots were out of an old box of Cil Dominion 170 gr. KKSP, price on the box was $4.80.