It might be that owning a .32 Winchester Special has some advantages

[Scott Tschirhart]

I was in my favorite gun shop today and they had lots of .32 Special ammunition, but not a bit of .30-30. Interestingly, they had a lot of .25-20 and .32-20 on the shelf along with some .25-35 Winchester.

[Blaine]

Is that a recently inflated price?

(I have 8-10 boxes of 30WCF, and enough 170s and 150s to load another 400)

[Scott Tschirhart]

I don't know. I've never priced this ammo before.

[lthardman]

Unfortunately, 32 Winchester Special has been a little pricey for the last five years. That price is not that far out of line.

[OldWin]

I ordered 500 32WS brass from Starline a few weeks ago. It was about all that was in stock.

[piller]

It is more expensive than .30-30 normally. Not as much as that shows, but about 50% more. I bought the bullets and brass for about the same price.

[Turdyturdy]

Yup,LGS near me has 24 boxes of 32 special, 30 of 10mm, 12 303 Brit., 20 300wsm, even a bunch of 28 gauge slugs. No 30-30 or other common loads. Another shop got in a case of WIN 38-55 last week. Half of it gone already at $50 a box. Forget 22lr,none to be had at any price around here.

[2ndovc]

I stopped by one of our local shops yesterday. There was a line out the front door 1/2 hour after they opened. Pass! A few days before that did a fly by at Cabela's. If they had two thousand rounds of centerfire ammo combined, I would have been surprised. Lots of shotgun ammo, mostly hunting stuff. There were less than 25 handguns in stock and 75% of those were revolvers and BP guns.

On another note, I ran across a new shop about 40 minutes from my place. I about locked up the breaks when I saw the sign that said "Full time Gunsmithing". There just aren't any good ones around here anymore. I went in and asked if they could do a little work on a couple Rugers and brought them down the next day. looking forward to see how they turned out. I have several projects around here that I'd like to do. They had a pretty decent inventory of firearms for these days and decent prices. Good amount of ammo, but I didn't price anything, I was too jazzed about getting some work done.

jb

[hondo1892]

I picked up two bags of 32 Win Spl at the one gun shop that has reloading stuff last Friday. They were $26.00 each which isn't much more than I paid for the same amount before things got crazy. He had quit a selection of powder for these time too.

[AJMD429]

The other day I got a box of 375 Ruger just for the heck of it; not one I shoot tons of, but....it was “in-stock”...!!!

And actually....it truly IS a great and practical cartridge. The main criticism was always ‘availability’.....how ironic that turned out to be...

A person could get along as far as hunting and targeting with 375 Ruger at the top-end, then as far as bottleneck bolt action cartridges, maybe 6mm Remington in the middle and 222 Remington or even 22 K-Hornet at the bottom, if not requiring ‘commonly stocked’ rounds and wanting great cartridges. ( Levergun-wise I’d probably pick 500 S&W, 44 Magnum, and 32-20 correspondingly ).

[Eddie Southgate]

Around here the Federal stuff is mid $30's with the Remington a bit cheaper when you can find it in stock. No 30-30 in stock in the last two months . Wish someone local to me had 25-20 at a good price in quantity . I bought the last two boxes I could find and am needing some more brass . I can find 25-20 brass but am not willing to pay three and four times the price for it.

Eddie

[Trailboss]

I have 15 boxes of factory 32 Special in my stash and a box and a half of reloads using 30-30 cases. The box is well marked and when hunting I don't pickup my casings. I have an extra 500 30-30 cases on hand for hunting throwaways. I doubt I'll ever shoot the factory rounds but I feel good having the stash. I have 3 Winchesters in 32 that are fed year round. I use 160 grain leads cast from an original Winchester single cavity mold. Using the prices I paid for powder and primers years ago my cost is about $2.30 per box of 20. I won't need to resupply components in my lifetime and so cost is a mute issue.