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Belt Fed

Belt Fed

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Have you noticed how much it has gone up? crap it's twice as high as the regular ammo. i understand supply and demand and all the suppressors sold now but sheesh. come on. i looked at some 45/70 subsonic and 308 subsonic. i thought really for that stuff to be below the speed of sound it would only have two grains of powder. lol or a bullet that went 3/4 way down the cartridge. that 45/70 was nearly 60 bucks for 20 and the 308 was 55 bucks for 20.

I think some people are buying suppressors now and think they are movie quiet. now a few are but 308 and 45/70. i don't think so. i haven't found a 223 that is not loud with a can.
 
Belt Fed said:
I was gonna buy a box of that subsonic 45/70 to try in this new henry, the ole boy there knows me pretty well and said yeah you don't want this ****. i said why not. he told me the price and we both laughed and i said yeah put that **** back on the shelf.
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Cowboy loads to shoot in my Model 1884 trapdoor is just as bad;

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I get Federal AE Flatnose 147gr 9mm subs for $12.99/box of 50 @ GT regularly.
Picked up a case and a half just the other day.

.300blk subs have all gone up in price to about $16-$26/box of 20 on most websites and local here in CTX.

45-70 subs shot up from $44/box of 20 to $60/box overnight it seems. That's absurd.

.308 subsonic is a waste of time and because it doesn't cycle, so that's a wash if you ask me unless you are hunting with it in a bolty.
 

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Belt Fed said:
Have you noticed how much it has gone up? crap it's twice as high as the regular ammo. i understand supply and demand and all the suppressors sold now but sheesh. come on. i looked at some 45/70 subsonic and 308 subsonic. i thought really for that stuff to be below the speed of sound it would only have two grains of powder. lol or a bullet that went 3/4 way down the cartridge. that 45/70 was nearly 60 bucks for 20 and the 308 was 55 bucks for 20.

I think some people are buying suppressors now and think they are movie quiet. now a few are but 308 and 45/70. i don't think so. i haven't found a 223 that is not loud with a can.
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And that's the world we live in... Twice the price for half the bang! It's called "marketing." Think about it: all subsonic ammo (both rifle and handgun) is relatively puny, running at velocities that magnumitis afflicted handgunners have sneered at for decades. Now, subsonic ammo certainly has its place, particularly in suppressed handguns and rifles, but yes, it is WAY, WAY overpriced for what it is.
 
Rifle subsonics ( other than .300 BO ) are a very low volume , niche product . If you're going to shoot more than a box or 2 per year , it's a handloading proposition .
 
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