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Midway USA has 25-20 ammo (Winchester) available if anyone is interested, $119.00 a box, 1 box limit!
My limit: ZERO. How can it cost more to mfg .25-20 than, for ex, .38 Spl? A blatant swindle.
I agree, price is ridiculous like a lot of stuff now, I did not buy any, I reload , just seen it and thought I would post it if someone was looking for some!
I just reloaded a bunch I got at the Sioux Falls guns show. Only drove 2300 miles thru 7 states to get it.
Wish Starline would run 32-20, 38-56 and 40-82 like 10,000 rounds each.
It could lower the cost–email if you want some. [email protected]
I have 25-20 On GI too… Bill
clarence said
My limit: ZERO. How can it cost more to mfg .25-20 than, for ex, .38 Spl? A blatant swindle.
RIGHT! $2.40 a round, before sales tax. What a ripoff!
November 7, 2015
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I got into high-volume reloading forty years ago to support a heavy comp-shooting habit. Loaded and fired in the neighborhood of a quarter million rounds. I got into casting a decade or so ago to make bullets I couldn’t buy and shoot guns I couldn’t afford ammo for. It didn’t make sense economically but I did it. Single stage reloading is therapeutic for me, I only uncover the Dillon to feed my social equipment. Then I got into collecting Winchesters and it all came together. The 38WCF rounds in my signature photo are very much like the ammo manufactured over 100 years ago, I also cast and load 32WCF’s. I can fire a round of each for about the price of a first class postage stamp. If I was set up to cast and load for the 25WCF i could shoot it for pennies per round.
Larry Potterfield is a friend but I buy very little ammo from him. He does have an attractive selection of Eley ammo at the moment but quite honestly the Norma Match ammo I bought from him awhile back shoots better than I do these days.
I can’t imagine being a collector without being able to shoot the guns I love. I can load and cast for almost every centerfire rifle and handgun I own, I wouldn’t do it any other way. Quite honestly I probably couldn’t afford it at today’s prices.
M8ke
Larry Potterfield is a friend but I buy very little ammo from him.TXGunNut said
He isn’t the problem–it’s the US ammo makers who give 1st priority to supplying the Fed gov’t. for Homeland Security, FBI, etc. For that reason, if possible I’ll choose ANY foreign ammo maker over a domestic one.
Gun shows are your best source for Brass, Powder, Primers and loaded. I paid 125.00 for 125 25-20 RP, AND 50.00 FOR 50 rounds of 25-20 RP and 100.00 for a box of 25-20 Winchester Lubaloy Blue and yellow box. May not shoot the latter. Also got 300 rounds of Starline 32-20 for 100.00. Hotels and Gas are not cheap, but I went to sell guns and came home with my 1st 1866 Rifle, with Rod in Butt and a good Bore. Bill
I have always considered the price of dies and brass as part of the cost whenever I acquire a gun in a new caliber. Brass wasn’t always easy to find or cheap, but always less costly than ammo. (I do have some vintage boxes of ammo for display) I have molds for all my handgun calibers and the ‘cowboy’ calibers, but have been lucky enough to find suitable cast bullets in bulk at reasonable prices for most of those, so I don’t generally rely on casting, although that is rewarding as well.
And I don’t consider an old Winchester to be ‘truly mine’ until I’ve successfully fired some handloads through it. One of the best things I did related to my collecting habit was to stockpile primers and powder many years ago. Reloading is relaxing and fulfilling. Shooting my handloads in an old caliber is doubly satisfying!
Nevada Paul
Life Member NRA
426crown said
Midway has Winchester 25-20 at 71.99 per box–just ordered some–Bill
That’s the best price on right now according to ammoseek, thanks for the heads up!
426crown said
Midway has Winchester 25-20 at 71.99 per box–just ordered some–Bill
That’s still $1.44 a round. Seems high. Maybe not. How much is .25-20 brass apiece these days? And 86 grain .257 caliber bullets?
25-20 WCF brass is out of stock/no backorders at Starline. The reputable dealers like Graf and Midway are out of stock. If you find a dealer you’ve never heard of that purports to have brass in stock, be very careful.
If their online store doesn’t tell you in advance what payment methods are acceptable, BIG YELLOW FLAG.
if you proceed to try to buy some brass from them anyway and the payment page only allows you to pay by ZELLE or other instant, non-recourse systems like it, BIG RED FLAG WITH PULSING SKULL AND CROSSBONES! You are about to be scammed, your money is about to be irretrievably and instantly gone to wheredahellistan, and you are about to get a lesson instead of any brass. Stop! Back off and quit out. If their software won’t you do anything but pull the trigger, power off your computer.
My personal canary-in-the-coal-mine is this: Do they take Amex? Now, there are legitimate, well known small vendors that just can’t afford AE’s swipe fees. I get it and will make an exception, but note I said “well known.”
When there’s a shortage of product and you enter the Web and start cruising for it, your activity sets off vibrations and things you don’t want to meet come looking for you.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
November 7, 2015
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Yes, Bill. I got a glimpse into that rabbit hole when I was looking for 22 Winchester Auto ammo. Site was very well put together but I was able to figure it out at the payment stage.
Mike
Folks, I don’t command the colorful language of Zeb, but for sure know of what he speaks. Back when powder of any desirable type wasn’t available, I found a site that had IMR 8208 when no one else did. They also had large rifle primers! If I wanted it, they had it. That got my whiskers twitching pretty severely. I checked online and the gun shop was legit, and I called the phone number. They knew all about it, someone had pirated their name but the address wasn’t correct and there was no phone associated with the site. Naturally the legit gun shop had no powders nor primers! Don’t get in a hurry to “buy it now” if its just too good to believe! Tim
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