What's Norma 7.62 x 54 R hunting ammo going for?

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I sold my last MN last night.

Looking through my ammunition I discovered some unopened boxes of Norma 7.62 Russian hunting ammunition with 180 grain soft point bullets.

I used it on black bears when I hunted with my 1938 MN 91/30. Deadly.

What would a fair asking price be for a box of that stuff? I know it costs a fortune new. This older stock but it's been well kept.


I have just over a box of fired brass too.
 
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I have a few boxes from the early 1980's. The price then was "on the high side" at $11.80. Unprimed Norma brass (7.62 Russ.) was $7.99. Yikes!
 
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A-zone said:
I have a few boxes from the early 1980's. The price then was "on the high side" at $11.80. Unprimed Norma brass (7.62 Russ.) was $7.99. Yikes!
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That must have been gun show prices.

My first Mosin Nagant was $19.99 before taxes and shipping and the first box of new off-she-shelf ammo I could get and only Norma was available was $29.99 in 1982.
 
MD said:
That must have been gun show prices.

My first Mosin Nagant was $19.99 before taxes and shipping and the first box of new off-she-shelf ammo I could get and only Norma was available was $29.99 in 1982.
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$29.99 in 1982? Damn, thats some pricey ammo. And I thought the $35/box I'm paying for 303 is bad...
 
Definitely not "gun show prices", but I think it may be from the late '70's, not the early '80's.

Ammo and brass were bought at full retail from a gun shop in Edmonton, "Jack's Gun Rack" (a favourite haunt of gun aficionados between about 1973 and 1983 (more or less) when Jack wrapped it up). Jack had been a Spitfire pilot in WWII and ran a shop that catered to shooters. His unofficial motto was "don't carry junk" (it'll attract the wrong sort of customer and you'll never be able to satisfy them).

We lived a couple of blocks away so, as a kid, I used to hang around there quite a bit and had my first part-time job there for a year, rubbing the bluing off the guns ("dusting") and sweeping the floor. For a kid in '73-'74 earning $1.75 an hour, this sort of pricing was expensive. I suspect the ammo may be from the late 1970's ('77-'78). The letter code under the price was his cost. Pretty sure the unprimed brass came from The White Elephant in Spokane, circa 1984.

I bought the ammo to feed a Moisin Nagant that I picked up at WW Arcade for $39.95 (with 60 rounds of surplus ammo, cruciform bayonet, sling and ammo pouch). Put in perspective, a box of Norma ammo back then was worth about 1/3 the price of the rifle. North American factory centrefire ammo was well under $10 a box.
 
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