Reality setting in - ammo prices

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I checked the ammo section in Prince Albert WalMart yesterday. The 100 round shotgun prices are $39.xx and $43.xx. I forget which was $43.xx, but I think it was Federal. Makes the SCORE and Challenger prices @ $8.50 /25 look pretty good now, eh? :eek:

SK residents can add another 10% tax. Lucky people, we are! :p

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I really hope I'm wrong but I have a feeling the next year or two is going to be rather costly for us shooters!

Even reloading components are getting pricey!
 
Yep. As one fellow in another thread put it, I have enough stuff - ammo, components, and guns, to equip the Boxer rebellion. I am ever watchful for ammo on sale. At least for the next little while, ammo will be pricey.

Not everybody sees it as I do, and that's fine. I don't have any fancy cars, nor do I go to exotic places for holidays, and that's fine too! :)
 
I saw this coming last year. My two ammo safes are full with just over 7000 rounds of five different calibres. While I'm always open to deals, I haven't seen any in months. I should have enough to ladt me at least a year. I hope things change.
 
Ammo prices are going through the roof with the devalued Canadian dollar.....but I stocked up heavily in the last couple of years with the ammo shortage scare . so now I am get to go for 2 or 3 years . Buy it cheap , and stack it deep....
 
kjohn said:
I checked the ammo section in Prince Albert yesterday. The 100 round shotgun prices are $39.xx and $43.xx. I forget which was $43.xx, but I think it was Federal. Makes the SCORE and Challenger prices @ $8.50 /25 look pretty good now, eh? :eek:

SK residents can add another 10% tax. Lucky people, we are! :p
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They are the same here my friend and we have to add 15% so I will trade you. :)
 
3macs1 said:
How does one do that??? in 2016. Years ago yes but I must be doing something wrong since I always get charged our provincial tax regardless now
what province I buy in
Please share
Cheers
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Yes, ORDERING, should result in getting charged the tax rate of your delivered to province. Unless a small store does not understand that?

I plan on buying ammo and guns in Alberta some day and making a run for the BC border.:pirate:
 
A year and a half ago a case of skeet, either Challenger or Federal Top Gun was $65-69. Late last year it went to $79/case. This year it will be $89/case.

In the centerfire world, even the blue and green box stuff will be in the mid-30 buck price point - the days of 20-something a box hunting rounds are gone.

Don't know what it will do to the surplus stuff, don't handle much and a pile of it comes from "other than" North America, but you got to figure the suppliers/importers of that will want to get in on the party as well.
 
3macs1 said:
How does one do that??? in 2016. Years ago yes but I must be doing something wrong since I always get charged our provincial tax regardless now
what province I buy in
Please share
Cheers
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Nova Scotia has HST.
I believe it only works in provinces that have GST and PST.

If I ordered something from outside BC, the dealer only charge the GST.
 
kjohn said:
I checked the ammo section in Prince Albert yesterday. The 100 round shotgun prices are $39.xx and $43.xx. I forget which was $43.xx, but I think it was Federal. Makes the SCORE and Challenger prices @ $8.50 /25 look pretty good now, eh? :eek:

SK residents can add another 10% tax. Lucky people, we are! :p
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Come to Bring Cash and it is 12%.
They tell me its a great province to live in....
Tight Groups,
Rob
 
The best advice I can give right now is if you have limited funds and are trying to decide on buying a new gun(s) or stock up on ammo...is buy ammo! Shop around and buy as much as you can afford. Try to find old inventory where you can that still has old pricing. We are seeing this right now and ammo prices are shooting (pun intended) through the roof. We are doing the same at the wholesale level and are trying to stock pile as much ammo as we can afford and have place to store it. Don't worry we are still buying guns (because that's what we do) but ammo is the one commodity that has been the most difficult to obtain a reasonable prices. Rim fire ammo is still slow to arrive and many US stores are still short of inventory. I just saw a hundred cases (not bricks) of Remington Thunderbolt .22 ammo arrive and thought I had died and gone to heaven. Phil.
 
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