303 Brit Ammo Price?

[Fox]

It isn't from our perspective. However, from the business perspective of most ammunition manufacturers, in the US and Europe, it is.
Popularity dictates demand which dictates everything else, and the USA being the largest market for everything "pew pew", the .303 British is considered very niche.

The cost of tooling, logistics and set-up for a production run is quite substantive, and from what I've gathered, most cartridge manufacturers might tool up to crank out a fixed amount of .303 Brit but once a year.

That has much to do with the cost of new manufacture ammunition, and it makes sense from a business perspective, even if it offends my pocketbook as a consumer.

That's why I reload. The days cheap surplus died with Greek HXP decades ago. I keep brass to a specific firearm and handload with GC'd cast lead/antimony for punching paper. But that's just me.

Bingo, thinking I will probably keep the boxer primed surplus stuff (does anyone know if that would be corrosive?) and selling the rest. There are lots of guys that do not reload and I can sell them surplus ammo to shoot that is a lot cheaper than factory commercial ammo and use that money for components to reload non-corrosive for myself.

 

[84wankel]

303 Brit prices have gone ####ing crazy

I was in some gun shops over the weekend and standard cup and core soft point probably averaged $45 a box

Used to be you could tell new hunter to buy a 303 for $150 and have a gun for life; well thats still true, only now it will cost you $50 for a box of shells. If you do any sort of shooting at all the savings on the rifle are just not worth it.

i purchased 20 .303 sellier and bellot rounds for 29.99 in port perry at williams arms. thats their non sale price. i have 30 boxes of FMJ coming in from the states that i paid 20$ each for. not a bad deal

 

[Fox]

i purchased 20 .303 sellier and bellot rounds for 29.99 in port perry at williams arms. thats their non sale price. i have 30 boxes of FMJ coming in from the states that i paid 20$ each for. not a bad deal

Who brought in the ammo from the US for you?

$30 a box is about the cheapest I have seen, PPU and S&B, but you do have to find it, PPU in 8x56R and 6.5x55 works great though, there are a few mail order on that stuff but it is not the stuff you find at most mom and pop shops or big box stores.

 

[rocklin]

I picked up 2 boxes of Winchester 180 grain power points for $29.50 each. This was at a local gun shop that has big sale events 4 times a year.

Next time it will be Federal stuff so I was told because they sold 40 boxes in 6 hours. I would pay $30 for Federal no problem.