303 Hunting Ammo
- Thread starter Dave.S
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Bubba Yugga
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Midwestern Ontario
- Location
- Vancouver Island, BC
It is out there. I just scored a couple boxes of NOS super X at a general store way up north for 36$ taxes in. Picked up some 32 Win Spl as well, hadn't seen that in a while.
- Location
- West Central Alberta
Swamp Donkey Outdoors has some S&B 150gr sp
Thanks, just ordered 5 boxes of 180 grain. Pricey but better than some and will keep me in brass for a while too.
Cheers.
blasted_saber
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- A blue part of Ontario
Wont be long before a box is worth more then a bubba sporter.
People are still recommending Lee Enfields as starter rifles; thats a crazy statement in 2023. Sure the rifle is cheap, but ammo is becoming prohibitively expensive and its not easy to find.
People are still recommending Lee Enfields as starter rifles; thats a crazy statement in 2023. Sure the rifle is cheap, but ammo is becoming prohibitively expensive and its not easy to find.
Seems it's time to sell the Lee Enfield and get a modern gun in a more supported caliber. .303 british is like 50-100 a box now depending on where you get it and what brand. It isn't ever going to get cheaper, and it isn't ever going to get more available. Seeing as used sporters are like $450-600, and military configs go for $1000. No new hunters are going to be using this rifle, as a starter unless it's handed down to them. Meaning less buyers of .303 as the ones who currently use it age out, and less and less stock on shelves as the rifles turn into collector guns instead of hunting guns. No need to hold onto such an old war relic if it's turning into a money pit.
Ya I've commented the same thing on both this website, and on several youtube channels who claimed the Lee Enfield was still the Poor mans rifle, and a great cheap starter gun. This is extremely outdated thinking. The rifles are now expensive, lack warranty and parts availability while being old and worn out. The ammunition is now prohibitively expensive and hard to find. and putting a scope on them is also not as easy as modern bolt actions. The sub $1000 dollar range has far too many good firearms for any new hunters or shooters to be considering the Lee Enfield as a budget rifle, or even as a worthy contender for a hunting rifle when all options are considered. Savage axis, Ruger american, Mosberg patriots, CZ alpha's, Mauser-18's. The list of rifles that outperform, and are more economically viable options for those on a budget is far too large to have the Lee enfield even anywhere near worth the price.
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it is as scarce as most other calibers here and the prices are around the same as .308 when you can find it, although .308 and .270 is fairly plentiful in my area with the price averaging around $65 per box of 20. prices on the sporters are up a bit but as well with the new rifles. to each his own I guess. I think most young folks coming into hunting would throw a couple extra hundred for a brand new low end starter rifle.
Out of stock.
Oh, too bad I only took 5 boxes and there was about 12 left.but that was a few days ago.
Consider yourself lucky as not buying guarantees you won’t get your credit card hacked like many have from this shop.
antiqueguy
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- windsor ontario
It’s easy to just reload for and with the price of ammo for everything might as well start reloading.
You can still find cheap deals on sporters here and there I bought a sporter snider off of here for cheap a couples years back and plan to hunt with it and you have no choice but to reload for that.
You can still find cheap deals on sporters here and there I bought a sporter snider off of here for cheap a couples years back and plan to hunt with it and you have no choice but to reload for that.
I took my Snider to the hunt camp and the guys laughed their azz off. I did have the bayonet on for effect, lol
Didn’t hunt with it but I’ll take it next year and hunt deer with it.
antiqueguy
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- windsor ontario
In my mind they’re still perfectly fine at taking game big old slug and slow movie but hits like a fright train and keeps going and less meat damage. I figure these would have been common among Canadians in the early 1900’s this one was sporterized pretty well still has the full length barrel probably put a lot of meat on the table for someone.
Not so easy without primers.
