why the hell is the price of 7.62x39 climbing?

mountainspruce said:
Once one goes, the others follow. And retailers are always testing prices. That's why you see it fluctuate. 7.62x39 is out of step with ammo. prices in the Canadian marketplace. Everything else besides .22 is expensive and retailers are latching onto that. It's time to roll your own and let these retailers sit on their stock. Let them sit on huge inventories and then the sharks get desperate to sell and then you see prices go down again.
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Making 7.62x39mm worthwhile to reload would require two things:

1. A large supply of Boxer primed brass cases.
2. Surplus ammo costs approaching component costs. Even with price increases, can you even buy bullets alone for what surplus ammo is going for these days?
 
twistedbrilliance said:
The cost is not up but the selling prices are, which really sucks.
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Yes , as a matter of fact , the cost is up.

Stuff at old prices are the old shipments. Stuff that went up to $240-$299 were newer shipments and cost more to the retailer and resulted in higher cost to the end user.

Stuff on pre-sale now is slightly cheaper and likely still on the ship.

You guys do know that that this stuff comes in shipments in containers on ships right? Prices for these fluctuate depending on conditions at purchase.
 
Everything goes up with more demand, get everyone to throw away their SKS, CZ 858, mini 30s, XCRs ect ect and then it will get cheap again :D

but since that will not happen just be glad that the price of 7.62x39 is still under the price of .223 for the time being, and that it is the most affordable round to shoot, in a military caliber .
 
the importers just figure out what guns and cheap ammo they can bring in the turn off the faucet. next we'll be seeing bulk 30-06 again and piles of garands from n korea. or piles of .223 and surplus iraq war us army surplus rifle changed to semi
 
TheManInBlack said:
the importers just figure out what guns and cheap ammo they can bring in the turn off the faucet. next we'll be seeing bulk 30-06 again and piles of garands from n korea. or piles of .223 and surplus iraq war us army surplus rifle changed to semi
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I think you mean S Korea. It will be a cold day in hell before North Korea sells us guns! As for a selective fire rifle changed to semi, that would be a converted automatic, ie, prohib., no market, and an importation ban prevents this.
 
john777 said:
The only ammo i need to buy is 7.62x39 and .22lr... I still have around 1500rds of 22lr b/c I lost interest shooting it since rolling 9mm cost the same as shooting 22lr.
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Is this true?
I've been thinking about getting into reloading.
I pay roughly 3.5c per round of .22lr - is that what you pay to reload 9mm?
If so, I'm buying a press for sure!
 
9mm reloads could be close to .22LR prices if you can find a source of free scrap lead for casting your own bullets. If you buy cast bullets commercially, figure on a component cost of around $130/1000.
 
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