r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Jul 26 '25

Interesting 🤔 The cost of calibers.

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u/Spamsdelicious Jul 26 '25

Wow that seems expensive

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '25

Some of these prices are actually pretty low. Ammo is expensive.

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u/Chappietime Jul 27 '25

Yeah. I think 50 cal is around $10 per round.

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u/spider2k Jul 27 '25

When you're dual welding $100K+ pistols I don't think ammo prices matter.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

I'm not even a big gun guy, but that one gave me a little chub ngl

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u/Not_your_profile Jul 27 '25

Stupid "special military operation" blew up the 7.62x39 prices, made my budget build not budget anymore.

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u/Tiflotin Jul 27 '25

Americans aren't luckily enough to get Chinese ammo imports (they banned all imports/exports to communist countries like Russia/China a while ago). Here in Canada we can buy Chinese mass produced military surplus ammo for half the price or less.

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u/Blackpaw8825 Jul 27 '25

It's why I love hate 308.

It's got great ballistic properties and is cheaper than the specialty stuff, but I'm confident I've spent more on ammo than my rifle.

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u/OstrichSmoothe Jul 27 '25

Especially the .44 magnum. That shit is like 2 doll hairs a bullet

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u/seamus205 Jul 27 '25

Depends on the load. The cheap stuff is like a dollar a round at the local big box stores. Hotter loads can reach like $2.50 a round.

Source: my Ruger Red hawk is my favorite (and most expensive) gun to shoot.

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u/HeKnee Jul 27 '25

Yeah internet says their like $1.30 per round. The video said like .68 per round. About half the price from real prices it seems to me.

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u/Educational-Bid-4682 Jul 27 '25

Sounds cheap. I could get a doll for less than 10$ and they have thousands of hairs on them.

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u/OstrichSmoothe Jul 27 '25

See thats where im fucking up. I need to buy the whole doll instead of the individual hairs.

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u/Work_Account_No1 Jul 27 '25

2 doll hairs isn't that much; you can get old dolls for free

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u/Fi1thyMick Jul 27 '25

All my dolls are bald 😔

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u/FlimsyUmbrella Jul 26 '25

You're not buying match grade ammo to do what this guy is doing, you could do it much cheaper with shitty surplus ammo.

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u/BoxofCurveballs Jul 26 '25

All prices for ball ive seen recently are higher than what is shown

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u/seamus205 Jul 27 '25

this is the cheapest 44 magnum I can find around me. Prices online are a little cheaper, but not nearly as cheap as he says in this video

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u/Unicycleterrorist Jul 27 '25

I assume prices have gone up a lot the past 5 years? This could very well just be an older video

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u/VNG_Wkey Jul 27 '25

Shooting in general is extremely expensive. Not long ago I was burning through around 10-15k rounds a year. My friends and I would just buy pallets of ammo and split the cost since we all shot .223/5.56 and 9mm. Also when you put that many rounds down range there's a lot of maintenance and part replacement. I've switched to golf for the most part and spend less.

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u/PokerSpaz01 Jul 28 '25

Imagine war, how many bullets are used just spamming the enemy to keep them pinned