So, I found the cheapest, regularly priced plinking ammo I could for my .357 mag at a big box store. It happened to be Magtech .38 Special ammo for $16.99 at Fleet Farm. Not a great price but not horrible either. I did find similar ammo at Gander Outdoors on sale for $14.54 if you were a club member. I did pick both of those boxes up even though they were different bullet grains. (My dad always said if you find ammo you use on sale buy a few boxes of it and I never understood what he meant until now.)
A poster on here recommended and online store and they had similar ammo for $13.50! What a bargain! I was gonna buy a few boxes of that until I added them to the cart, went to checkout and was a shipping price of $15!
Now I understand shipping is where a lot of companies make their profits and ammo is heavy so may require extra shipping costs, but we are talking about 2 boxes of ammo here, not that heavy.
With the difference in price I'd have to buy a minimum of 4 boxes just to break even at what the big box store sold.
I'd be better off just picking up 4 boxes of regular priced ammo at the big box store, correct?
I'm also assuming if I bought more of the ammo in bulk like 2 small ammo crates the price of shipping would go up even more because of weight?
The problem with online Ammo stores / websites is their exorbitant shipping costs ruin their lower product cost savings.
Anyone else find this?
A poster on here recommended and online store and they had similar ammo for $13.50! What a bargain! I was gonna buy a few boxes of that until I added them to the cart, went to checkout and was a shipping price of $15!
Now I understand shipping is where a lot of companies make their profits and ammo is heavy so may require extra shipping costs, but we are talking about 2 boxes of ammo here, not that heavy.
With the difference in price I'd have to buy a minimum of 4 boxes just to break even at what the big box store sold.
I'd be better off just picking up 4 boxes of regular priced ammo at the big box store, correct?
I'm also assuming if I bought more of the ammo in bulk like 2 small ammo crates the price of shipping would go up even more because of weight?
The problem with online Ammo stores / websites is their exorbitant shipping costs ruin their lower product cost savings.
Anyone else find this?
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