Have you noticed that the cost of ammo is a lot more than it used to be?
Granted, this is the case with everything these days. Even .22 cal. ammo is a lot more expensive. Remember the days when a box of .22 was only 79 cents?
Fortunately for me, I have plenty of .22 shells that I purchased before inflation hit during the pandemic. This is also true with ammo in other calibers that I have purchased.
This is the subject of an article in Press Pros Magazine.
They begin it with:
If it’s been a while seen you bought a box of .22 shells for hunting or shooting tin cans…you’re in for a surprise. You need more than a paper route to pay for it.
Short and sweet, fall hunting season is soon to be upon us and some of you will be stocking up on the essentials.
Short and sweet…it’s going to cost more than you remember. Where simple hunting ammunition is concerned, it might cost so much that you put aside pre-season target practice. These are not the days of picking up a box of Super X .22s for 79 cents. And as I write this I’m staring at a box from the 70s, probably from a hardware store in Canfield, Ohio, with 79 cents written on the back in magic marker. Today, you’ll pay ten times that much.
Ammunition of all shapes and sizes are more now than you remember, unless you’re a committed shooter and don’t care. However, the cost of shooting is making a dent. I know numerous trap and skeet shooters who have given it up, altogether, simply because a box of 25 trap shells, on average, cost $8.00 a box. A decade ago they were $5. Two decades ago they were $30 for a case.
Center-fire ammo prices are extreme, compared to what you remember shooting in your grandad’s 30-30 Winchester.
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