LC ammo in cardbord boxes..

[c east]

It is 74 LC ( I think....It's been a week) I found it about a week ago and a guy at the gun show offered me $40 a box...They are 50 round boxes...Is that a good price now days?...Charlie

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[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Any ammo is now pricey in my area, .30 carbine is hard to find. $40-$45 a box last I saw. Seems like a lot of guys have gone into the hoarding mode. But I think it will settle down next year.
Glad I still have some in the ammo locker from when it was less expensive ($12.00 a box) years..... ago. Those 600 and 800 round spam cans that we thought went for too much ($225-$300) years ago as collector pieces, might now be opened and sold or shot off.
Last 350 I shot were PC 43 (Kings Mills).

[DaveHH]

The CMP deal was $549 for 27 boxes. That's $20 a box. Mine was LC71. That is about as cheap as you could get genuine USGI. CMP has none left.

[c east]

A fellow had a spam can 6oo rounds for $800 ...I passed and offered to sell all mine for $1 he declined..Charlie

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

The CMP ammo went fast. It was sold out when I tried to call the day after I saw the notice. Prices are nuts right now. I'll wait before I feel like I am getting extorted. Prices will come back down. Though to what level I don't know.

I saw .45 acp at $29.99 Friday. The same brand at the same LGS was $17.99 a few months back. I can wait.

[USGI]

I sold several boxes of 45ACP for $30 - $35 at a show on Saturday and picked up a bunch of .30 Carbine (LC 43) for $18 a box. Everbody was going crazy for .22 ammo - I sold off about a 1/3 of my "stash" at 6-10 cents per round. All the .22 that I took was gone in not much over an hour - same with a guy next to me who sold a full case of steel cased Russian .22LR for $20 per brick in about the same amount of time. I'm glad I didn't take all I had, or it would all be gone. - Bob

[c east]

Yea I sold 7 bricks in 7 minutes...$40 per...Charlie

[Bruce McAskill]

The last 30 carbine that Lake City and the military ever made was in 1973. Most of it went to Viet Nam but some is still around and it pops up from time to time.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

War Baby III pages 1397 to 1420, talk about and list, carbine ammunition by makers and headstamps. It lists LC 73 as the last.

Charlie, could you check that again?

[USGI]

At a Portland gunshow yesterday, I found one vendor with Aguila .30 Carbine ammo for $23 but most were pricing their carbine ammo anywhere from $30-$60. The $60 was for soft points. I saw 100rd CCI "mini-mags" for $20 and asked the guy if he was serious. His comment was, "They may not sell today, but they will eventuallly." Most of the regular ammo vendors had bulk packs of .22LR priced at $80. - Bob