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Posted: 12/27/2007 11:36:54 AM EDT
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I have a calculator. Someone yell if I missed something. $263.34 per 1260 round case. $0.209 per round 24,000 cases Let's assume Samco paid $0.18 a rd. 24,000 x 1260 = 30,240,000 rounds 30,240,000 x $0.18 = $5,443,200 (your assumed cost) Damn, I hope you sold some in bulk. That is a lot of money to tie up in corrosive 7.62x39 that is $0.03 a round more than new production non-corrosive.  |
Thanks for the heads up. You gotta love arfcom. We have spies everywhere  Anyway, that Yugo is supposed to be good stuff. However, at almost 22 cents a round + you have to add in shipping, they can sit on it. Especially factoring in how is it corrosive... Samco must be making a killing off of it. If they are not, I don't understand how it could cost them more to purchase old 80's surplus than new production Russian non-corrosive  
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That price is straight from the horses mouth: www.samcoglobal.com/ammo.html |
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Monitor clean up, thanks for pic! |
I SERIOUSLY doubt Samco paid .18 cents a round. Truth known they paid about .10 cents a round. Too high for me, I'll buy Golden Tiger. Besides who wants to clean an AK after every trip to the range? |
I am sure that if Samco(if they even imported it) had paid $0.10 a round, everyone would have jumped on the bandwagon and we would have been drowning in it at $0.12-0.13 a round now. That would be far below the cost of new production ammo and they could have sold off 50 million rounds at that price. AIM bought some of the last repackaged stuff that was selling for ~$160/k. Bryan said they passed this time due to the price being too high. |
Your gun is magical, unlike the thousands of Yugo AK kits with dark pitted bores that recently arrived from the former Yugoslavia.
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| I think wolf ammo sucks to start with. its dirty and sooty and where do they come off raising the price like it was brass cased? i only shoot it in my com block guns. i had 2k of 223 wolf when i purchased my first ar. after the first 750 rds i couldnt wait to finish it. this is only my 2 cents but everything i ever had from yugoslavia was made well, chicks, ammo, and lets not forget those m70`s. the big c word isnt such a bad thing if you clean your guns after shooting them. i use sweets and a bore snake, followed by a little hoppes and i am done. lets keep in mind scrap brass is going for $1.40 per lb these days too. that trash wolf ammo is bringing near 18-20 cents per round. i dont think its such a bad deal. i will most likely be getting some so thanks for the lead. emory |
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IMO they are just testing the waters to see if people will buy it up as they are with the other calibers. Ammo prices are going up but on old surplus stuff that has been sitting in storage for two decades? Give me a break. I second the opinion that they probably got it for circa .10 a round. If they charged around that, I'd buy the shit out of it, eat Ramen Noodles for weeks on end so that I could get even more. Of course everyone has a different opinion, but I personally never buy corrosive ammo unless it is significantly cheaper than commercial non corrosive. Even if new production is $30-40 more per 1k, I still buy new stuff. Something about the peace of mind that I can shoot, put the rifles up and forget about them for a while if need be. Right now the only surplus corrosive that I would stock up on is 5.45, 7.62x25, and maybe 7.62x54R if you can find it for a good price. Everything else, you might as well buy brand new ammo IMO. |
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