Is 9 MM ammo worth $1 a round?

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and please don’t forget, we eat what we kill. Yummy yummy.
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If you don't have it and really really need it? Yes.
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My cousin in Washington State just got 500 rounds at .24¢ per round 1 box per person. So prices are out there just not in Florida.
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A .177 hunting pellet at 700 fps+ should be plenty good, I think--assuming you can get up on him. At distance, a rifle yes.
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Something is worth what others are willing to pay for it. Right now, idiots are willing to pay 1$ a round.
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I remember AIM, in the early 2000s (first term of the GWB administration) running a sale--1000 rounds of 9mm brass ammo (GECO), delivered, for $99.99. I feel like I am talking about $.26 / gal. gas (which I also remember, but that was the late 1960s).
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I still have wooden thousand round cases of Port .308 from Aim that was $150 shipped. The good old days. GARY.
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We all sure miss the good old days of not so long ago.
HXP spam cans for $60/can with no order limit. South African battle packs of .308 and Hirt 8mm with boxer brass for reloading.
The CMP and AIM pretty much owned my credit cards.

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Yes, but those are all surplus ammo--this was new manufacture 9mm, $5 a box delivered to your door. Now people are paying are paying $50 for the same, like 16 years later. That is astounding to me. I realize it is probably just a bubble, but it has been going on awhile. This is definitely longer than the Sandy Hook "crisis."
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I agree. I also think it’s a bubble but people panic buy so easily now that i expect they will come and go periodically, along with the political hype. I don’t know if we’ll ever see $5/box again but when it gets back down to the $160 per 1K case delivered I hope I can afford to stock up on plenty of 9mm inventory. For all the other calibers I’m in good shape and can reload more.

I don’t mind reloading rifle calibers but high volume 9mm is too much time and idpa events are not where you want to be chasing down your brass.
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