What happened to pricing? +15% on some skus?

Just received my order and the Federal American Eagle .357 Mag 158gr. JSP came in like this. What a hell could have happened? Never bought federal before, is this how they normally are? Is it even safe to shoot it if it looks like horribly cheaply made?

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So I brought a bag of .303 inert rounds and some extras from another table at a militaria show yesterday. Alot seem to be South African, Greek, and Winchester ones. Would an SMLE be able to feed and cycle the rounds? *not fire obviously as they are inerts* If that makes sense?

What are the meaning for different colors on the bullet points?

I have a Factory stock Mossberg Maverick 88 Pump Shotgun. Will this work for Deer? I pick 2 3/4 so I'm under the 3' Barrel limit,I'm nervous to shoot them because of it saying "Rifled" Slug,Will my factory barrel support it?

Fresh from an estate sale I went to yesterday. $300

I recently got a steal on some 308 ammo and bought two 120's packs. How is the quality control running on ammo inc. latley? I've heard some bad things awhile back but i cant find any other new info. Anyone using the .308 147 grain signature line ammo from Ammo inc.?

I haven’t bought any 7.62x39 in a few years. I found this today at one of my local stores. It’s PPU m67 brass case. New manufacture and not corrosive. Came out to $318 after tax, just under 38cpr. What do yall think? Pretty solid deal?

I recently bought my ronin and FMJ rounds run fine but it seems to have hiccups with my hornady defensive rounds even though the profile seems the same besides the hollowing of course of the hornady rounds.

I want to know anyone who has the same experience and or has any advice to give.

Mind you its only 70 rounds in but I hear some say break in periods are bs. Newbie to the community and guns as its my first firearm.

Question in title. LGS has a solid price on 9mm. Last time I shot it say 9 years ago in .40 m&p shield it was annoyingly dirty. Like 100 rounds of REM UMC = 400 ish rounds of Blazer worth of Carbon. Thanks!

1000 rounds for $245 free shipping and no sales tax (outside of PA) from rivertownmunitions

Would you go with Steel or brass cases for AK. If Steel fmj or hp. Looked at brass from Belom but saw this uploaded not tok long ago and wanted 2nd opinions

I bought some Federal premium ammo, 120 grain trophy copper 6.5 PRC as a backup for my Elk hunt.

The ammunition will not fit in my gun. One box had five rounds. All of them that were over 0.297 neck diameter. One was all the way at 0.3005

I've called the federal ammunition number multiple times, eventually got a technician whom I explained the problem to who agreed to how the ammunition shipped back of the ammunition. It sat on my front porch for 3 weeks.

Does anyone of any way to reach anyone at Federal Premium directly, not through the answering service that answers all calls?

So I have about a little under 2k of 9mm ammo stored in a Plano Tactical Ammo crate. It has an O-Ring and should be pretty water resistant. Crate is in a bedroom closet with a few packs of desiccants. I also have a SnapSafe 450-Gram bag that I have stored away. It seemed overkill. I’m aware of optimum temp being about 70° F and humidity being 30-50%, but does stability matter. Like are these swings ok, or should I try to minimize fluctuations. I also feel like I am REALLY overthinking this. This will also prob all be turned over in the next year or so, so this is prob not a long term storage issue for this ammo anyway. Am I crazy?

Hello, does anyone know where I can get decent ammo that's cheap for the shooting range? I'm looking for 9mm that's not $.50 a round like they sell at the range.

Thanks!