Ammo prices

[Nimrod1960]

I know its a common moan but really!

Shooting Supplies Bromsgrove : Sako Blades .308 150g over £80 a box .
Go well through my xbolt 2 nordic but hellish £!

Should I just go to PPU SP’s at less than half the price and just forget solid copper until I am forced?

Other suggestions welcome.

 

[Mike1979]

S&B Blue worked well in my 6.5 Creed and were a bit cheaper but if you dont need to use non toxic save yourself some dosh and wait until you are "forced" to

 

[Edinburgh Rifles]

£80 is punchy but you should try the Blade Pro!
Thats worse!

Fox Classic - £65-68.....

 

[buckfever]

Norma tipstrike for the .223 jumped from £29 a box to £41

 

[Dave_45]

£80 is punchy but you should try the Blade Pro!
Thats worse!

Fox Classic - £65-68.....

Glasgow field sports are over £100 for the blades now, must be the pro

 

[Jagged77]

A lot of people I know use the Geco Zero non lead which are considerably cheaper and seem to perform well. Seem to be around £50 a box.

I’ve got some Blade Pro, very accurate but eye watering!

 

[wytonpjs]

A lot of people I know use the Geco Zero non lead which are considerably cheaper and seem to perform well. Seem to be around £50 a box.

I’ve got some Blade Pro, very accurate but eye watering!

I couldn't get Geco Zero .308 (think it was 136gr) to group in either of my Tikka or Sako rifles

 

[andyk]

I decided against the Geco for my 30-06 as the BC is so terrible as to mean you’d need to consider wind drift at 100-150m!

My approach now is to find a useable factory non-lead for those situations that need it and then handload the rest, it’s just too expensive for serious practice.

 

[long_range_rob]

Glasgow field sports are over £100 for the blades now, must be the pro

£5 a bang.

 

[devon deer stalker]

I know its a common moan but really!

Shooting Supplies Bromsgrove : Sako Blades .308 150g over £80 a box .
Go well through my xbolt 2 nordic but hellish £!

Should I just go to PPU SP’s at less than half the price and just forget solid copper until I am forced?

Other suggestions welcome.

It's only £2/deer, for a bullet that works really well, I would stick with them.

Maybe time to consider reloading?

 

[HonestJohn]

1 shot 1 deer, practice and range shooting, no no no! Back to 22lr for pest control to keep ammo expenses in check! Go out when weather is good for conditions only to save money on fuel too.

 

[shbangsteve]

I know its a common moan but really!

Shooting Supplies Bromsgrove : Sako Blades .308 150g over £80 a box .
Go well through my xbolt 2 nordic but hellish £!

Should I just go to PPU SP’s at less than half the price and just forget solid copper until I am forced?

Other suggestions welcome.

£50 in my local gunshop

It's only £2/deer, for a bullet that works really well, I would stick with them.

Maybe time to consider reloading?

your calculator is broken

 

[Donkey Basher]

It's only £2/deer, for a bullet that works really well, I would stick with them.

Maybe time to consider reloading?

Maths not your strong point then

 

[kieran222]

It would be good to build up some kind of database of what ammo people use with what calibre and gun make and accuracy. It would save people a fortune trying to find the most suitable factory round.
Ok, I know that it would only work if you got good reliable information, which you probably wouldn't.

 

[Rake Aboot]

Was a solely Sako ammo user for years and wouldn’t even try others but the price became so prohibitively expensive that I looked about
I’m now using federal and am very happy with them.

Even my rimfire is CCI rather than the RWS I used to use

 

[devon deer stalker]

Maths not your strong point then

It was a long day

 

[tusker]

I know its a common moan but really!

Shooting Supplies Bromsgrove : Sako Blades .308 150g over £80 a box .
Go well through my xbolt 2 nordic but hellish £!

Should I just go to PPU SP’s at less than half the price and just forget solid copper until I am forced?

Other suggestions welcome.

I,m using PPU SP,s in my 30-06 nothing wrong with them.
Tusker

 

[Heym SR20]

Ammo is and always has been expensive. We are living in a tome of war so huge amounts of ammo resources are getting used up elsewhere. A couple of minutes of a belt feed machine gun will use up what most of us will shoot in a lifetime.

The only ammo that has ever been cheap is military surplus. This was ammo that had been in stores for too long.

All such ammo is long long gone.

If you want cheap ammo, stick with cartridges that are loaded in large volumes.

Specialist cartridges high performance cartridges are always expensive.

But regardless of all of the above, ammo is often one of the least expensive parts of any hunting or shooting trip.

 

[Heym SR20]

I decided against the Geco for my 30-06 as the BC is so terrible as to mean you’d need to consider wind drift at 100-150m!

My approach now is to find a useable factory non-lead for those situations that need it and then handload the rest, it’s just too expensive for serious practice.

Look at Fox for non-lead hunting and use their target bullets for practice.

All bullets, even high BC lead bullets are affected by wind. Wind drifts are quoted at 10mph crosswinds at 100m or yards, so you always do need to consider even at 100m regardless of cartridge or bullet. If you don’t want to consider wind, shoot indoors or only shoot on very light no wind days.

10mph is a light breeze with a very gentle rustling of leaves and grass.

 

[Razzdogg]

If you shoot enough its worth reloading, even if you buy some cheap kit to get you going, £1 (ish) a bang on some laser accurate .308 cant go wrong

Reloading is its own hobby though and gets addictive and expensive quick if you click with it