HK/PTR 91 Getting Expensive To Shoot

[peppersteak122]

As my the other post in HK Clone thread, I just ordered a PTR-91F from CDNN (Rep. Cody is TOP NOTCH!). Hopefully it would get here tomorrow.

On the other hand, while I was helping out in my local gunshop, I checked 380 WIN ammo prices. Geez, the price for a box of 20 cartridges is $17.00 average!! Even with the employee discount, the cheapest I gotta pay for a box is about $15 to $16 USD. That means a bullet is like ... like ... buying a Jelly-O shot in bar! Or to put the other way, the bullet for HK-91 is close to the bullet for 30-06! That's outrage!

30-06 is scoped/snipe rifle. I can enjoy my time and take 3 minutes for a shot to the target 150+ yards away. HK/PTR-91 is considered as semi-auto sporting rifle. I can easily empty the whole 20rd mag within 7 seconds.

I know it is a weird compare. However, I just can't believe how much money I am going to spend on the newly PTR-91... Maybe it is gonna be my wall hanger....

*EDIT myself: Thanks, UncleBilly, HK/PTR-91 uses .308 round.*

[UncleBilly]

as the old saying goes, if you wanna play you gotta pay.

'course now that you can have a bayonet lug, you can always fix bayonets and run to stab the target instead of shooting at it

I image a lot of folks with .308 rifles are not shooting them due to ammo prices, unless they stocked up heavily before the prices went through the roof.

I pretty much seen the handwriting on the wall a couple three years back, when there was no new .308 being imported. So over time everytime I went to a local gunshow I bought a tub of 1260 rounds of South African when it was 250 bucks a tub, and squirreled it away

there are a few threads on some other gunboards that there will be .308 coming in from Korea and Turkey. I don't put much stock in that, I will believe it when I see it. But, IF there is, don't expect it to be cheap, and giving the feeding frenzy for ammo, it will probably go fast.

[1shot1kill]

Expect to pay .47 to .87 cents per round for surplus - commercial stuff is just prohibitive!

[Kyle Hunter]

Makes me very sad that I didn't just fill up my Suburban with South African 7.62 the first time that I went to AIM Surplus and it was $18 a battle pack, or the second time when it was $22. I killed two cases that summer and I was only 19 or so with out that much income, now I am afraid to empty a battle pack. Like Uncle Billy says now you have to pay to play, but then 7.62 was cheap!

[bradb]

Makes me glad I bought about 7K from AIM when they had it cheap. The funny thing is I didn't even have an HK at the time. I bought it all for my 1919a4. I have since sold the 1919 and picked up an HK91, so I am stocked up at least for a little while.

[stubbicatt]

Makes me glad I bought about 7K from AIM when they had it cheap. The funny thing is I didn't even have an HK at the time. I bought it all for my 1919a4. I have since sold the 1919 and picked up an HK91, so I am stocked up at least for a little while.

Yeah, but it is still hard to shoot up your reserve when you know that to replace those rounds will be very expensive. At least that's how I feel about it.

[SweedishMurdrMachine]

My Privi 308 ammo costs me $12.00 a box and it's hot enough to shoot and have fun with. But even then I only take her out on occasion.

Ammo prices suck anymore.

[tcr39]

Yeah, but it is still hard to shoot up your reserve when you know that to replace those rounds will be very expensive. At least that's how I feel about it.

hey stubbi, hows the reloading goin? what dies should i buy and how many casings do you have to throw out after a 50 rnd range session. I,ve been saving my boxer brass. How much is a complete set of dies for, i guess it is a single stage set-up., because thats all i,m going to reload. thanks bro

[SweedishMurdrMachine]

Try midwayusa.com for dies

[JTinIN]

Makes me glad I bought about 7K from AIM when they had it cheap. The funny thing is I didn't even have an HK at the time. I bought it all for my 1919a4. I have since sold the 1919 and picked up an HK91, so I am stocked up at least for a little while.

Know what you mean, I ended up moving the 1919A4 to 30-06 and 8mm and keeping a dozen boxes of Port and SA for the HKs and FALs