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snoball,
You would have to go to those (and other) ammo-selling websites and find out EXACTLY what the cost would be out-the-door since each vendor would have slightly different pricing on ammo costs and shipping (and if they are in your state, they'd add sales tax on top).
But if you REALLY want cheap ammo, make it yourself: Reload!
I am not rich but I don't worry about pinching pennies on "serious" purchases. As I said, for mebuying ammo online is convenient, I get many choices (and get some brands/types of ammoNOT carried locally, such as Aguila), and by comparing online vendors pricing/shipping costs I get the best price -- but I will also go with a vendor I know to be hassle-free and reliable, even if they cost more than an untried/questionable vendor havingthe LOWEST ammo prices.
I do not know how much I would save (if any) over buying locally -- I don't care about that. But evenlocally (Walmart)prices have been going up and I still have to pay sales tax. So FOR ME, buying online is the ONLY way to go.
So in YOUR case, just go to some ammo-selling websites, add stuff to your cart, click on the "shipping" link so you can calculate shipping BEFORE you continue processing your order (don't pay yet), and if you think it's not a good deal for YOU, then just delete your cart. You haven't lost anything except your time there but even then that will have been educational.
Ijust give you options and point you in the right direction, but it's up to you todo the leg work.
Good luck,
-- John D.
P.S.
If you CAN"T GET ammo locally, then what is the"$$ savings" there over buying online? None.
I hardly ever shoot, so I just buy ammo to stock up to a certain point and then stop. Or, when I get a new gun (like I just did for my Texas CHL class soon) and it's a NEW caliber (I don't already have) and I need two.30 or .50 caliber GI ammo cans worth of ammo for it (that's my rule: two cans of ammo per gun is enough for me -- .30 cal. cans for handguns and .50 cal. cans for longguns). So I buy ammo online NOT to shoot lots of it, but to put away -- like down here in serious on-the-beach Hurricane Country where it's good to have afterwardswhen you have no power, no city water, police stretched thin (and debris-filled roadsmake it so even if you COULD get through on your cell phone (we couldn't as the cell-towers were out or blocked by FEMA) they can't get to you promptly or even at all -- we were on our own), a serious looter threat (considering the # of lowlifes here in the ghettos), etc.. The guns andammoare part of my"emergency supplies stores" along with all my food, water and such.
So my buying ammo recentlyhas nothingto towith President Obama, unlike most buyersI guess. I just wanted to get some hard-to-find HP ammofor my two 7.62x25 Tokarevs and some HPs and FMJs for my new CHL 9mm carry gun...that's all (and for years now Walmart does not carry some of my preferred .22LR ammo, so I have to get THAT online, too). I couldn't care less about the Democrats and what they might or might not do re: gun issues.Besides, as long as you have ONE gun, it can get you all the other guns you want in a SHTF scenario (in my case, AFTER a serious hurricane like we had here with Ike...and the next hurricane season here starts June 1st -- Iam expecting another big one (or more).
-- JD
