For the poodle shooters amongst us - sale alert

by ANoniMousse, Friday, December 20, 2013, 07:51 (3934 days ago)

Natchez Shooters Supply has a flyer out on their December sales.

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For the poodle shooters amongst us - sale alert

by bmize, Friday, December 20, 2013, 10:30 (3934 days ago) @ ANoniMousse
edited by Paul, Friday, December 20, 2013, 10:55

For those of us who can order from Natchez because of where we live,

Target Sports USA has a lot of different FMJ 223 at very good prices.

The BIG question is...

by Paul ⌂, Friday, December 20, 2013, 10:57 (3934 days ago) @ bmize

who's got decent prices (and availability) on 22 LR? It's good to see that centerfire ammo come back a bit, but the rimfire stuff is still either missing in action or higher than a cat's back.

The BIG question is...

by bmize, Friday, December 20, 2013, 13:00 (3934 days ago) @ Paul

High end target ammo is around. Target Sports has some RWS and Eley. Creedmoor sports and a few of the other specialty shooting places had some Wolf a few weeks ago.
The big box stores are still getting plinking ammo once or twice a week, you just have to be there at 7am and get in line with the retired old men who are reselling it at gunshows and on the web.

Question

by Catoosa, Friday, December 20, 2013, 19:07 (3934 days ago) @ ANoniMousse

Does anyone here have any experience with the Wolf Gold .223? I'd like to scratch up some nonreloadable plinking ammo before next March, so I don't have to chase brass. I have no experience with the steel cased polycoated ammo. Does the brassplated steel stuff work OK?

What are you shooting it out of?

by Paul ⌂, Friday, December 20, 2013, 19:10 (3934 days ago) @ Catoosa

I picked up some Wolf 223 a while back, shot it out of an H&R youth model - the only black rifle in my cache. It worked fine for blasting, didn't do any serious work with it, just smacking rocks "out there" for the fun of it. Don't know what it'd be like out of a semi-auto shot fast enough to warm the barrel/chamber up. In the singleshot it functioned well enough.

What are you shooting it out of?

by Catoosa, Friday, December 20, 2013, 19:29 (3934 days ago) @ Paul

Ruger Mini14. It does get hot after a couple of 20 round magazines down the tube. For that reason I have shied away from the polycoated stuff. However, I see from the Natchez website that the Wolf Gold is described as having "brass" cases and I presume that means real, solid brass. It should work OK. I'm still guessing berdan primed, but I could be wrong about that too.

Wonder if they make that stuff in .30 carbine..... I used to get cheap berdan-primed .30 carbine ammo at gun shows, in a folded and stapled cardboard box marked simply "7.62MM NON CORR". Don't know where it was made but it shot great and never gave any problems. Ah, for the good ol' days.

Just bought a1000 rounds of Wolf Gold

by Bob Hatfield @, Saturday, December 21, 2013, 19:19 (3933 days ago) @ Catoosa

Haven't received it yet but saw a You tube video of a guy trying to stick a magnet to the case and the bullet. It will not stick. Made in Taiwan. Chronographed 3000+ fps out of a high end AR with a 16 inch bbl.. !0 shots at 100 yards grouped about 1-1/2 inches. Fed and shot fine.

Bob

Funny to compare their sale prices to their regular

by cubrock, Saturday, December 21, 2013, 09:26 (3933 days ago) @ ANoniMousse

Their listed regular prices are obviously from the "scare" period. Their sale prices are still higher than regular prices pre-scare.

I have been trying to sell a couple 1000 round cases of bulk-packed XM855 locally for $435 per case, which is what I paid for it (lucked into a deal on an online auction where no one else bid, but can't afford to keep everything I bought). Haven't sold a one, but have been offered $400 multiple times. You can't order it from anywhere I know for less than almost $500 per case, yet people still aren't buying it. Not much money floating around right now, people are still feeling burned from the panic prices, and there must not be a whole lot selling. I think we'll see prices come down farther.

We are on the brink of the time to stock up. :)

I've not priced ammo since last year, pre-panic...

by Paul ⌂, Saturday, December 21, 2013, 15:58 (3933 days ago) @ cubrock

so am glad to see it coming back available. If they stock their shelves and folks hold tight then the prices HAVE to come down. Anywho, there's no way for me to buy any right now anyway.

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