a guy at work has offered me 19 boxes of hunting ammo, and 25 boxes of FMJ...both 7.62x39. Now he says his father has had it forever and they were marked at $7.50 for the hunting and $5 for the FMJ. Im wondering a few things. is the Norinco special or should be worth more in any way? should it cost as much as some of the highway robbers are selling it for? he said he would sell the lot for $230...im kinda sketchy on that because he said his father had it YEARS AGO and it was marked super high. just RECENTLY has the ammo shot up to $5 a box! its still 880 rounds but i want to haggle with this fucker first. I NEED YOUR HELP GUYS! what do you think? ANY responses would be helpful...and i need them ASAP!!!!

Walk away.

You can get new ammo much cheaper than that.

You don't know how this ammo was kept.

To me, it's not worth it.

so what SHOULD i offer this cock tractor? hes willing to negotiate...

No more than $100 if you ask me.

Yeah he wants too much. See if he will let you test fire a few rounds out of the various boxes and then make him a reasonable offer on it. Probably best no t to call him a cock tractor when you do it though.

Funny face should be at end.

so what would be a REASONABLE offer for the lot?

Personally I'd rate it in league with wolf and golden tiger. Goes bang but is nothing spectacular.

Buddy got some Norinco ammo in a green box with his SKS. We stuck a magnet to it and figured we would see what it did to some 1/4" scrap plate stock. Wouldn’t even punch half way through while the winchester white box he got at wally world would punch clean through. So it's not "armor piercing" or as good as the premium ammo.

We shot cases of this stuff in the early 90's. It's OK. The Eastern Europe and Russian is better if you ask me. It's not surplus, but the same as Chinese mil spec. The hunting was cut ended FMJ's, not the best. I would not pay over $4 a box X 44 box's $176. Offer him $150 and don't go up to $170. ONLY IF IT'S CLEAN AND PERFECT! If there is any rust or crud I'd walk as well unless he wants to dump it cheap then you could sort thru it.

Frosty

to quote Tapco:

"Now is not the time for doubt!"

700 round sealed tins of hotshot non corrosive berdan primed ammo newish production sells for about 140ish now.....considering how old the ammo could be, it may be corrosive and to me not worth my time, the ammo also coulda been sitting in a outdoor shed with no real protection to the elements....i would just turn my nose up to the idea and buy something safer.

i talked to him today and its all non corrosive. i offered him $75 for the FMJ and he said he couldn't go that low...what a cheap skate! hes selling it for his "mother" so she doesn't have to look at it any more...i bet she told him to sell it for $100 and now hes high balling me...im not stupid! he went down to $200 for the lot...i still don't want it for that...

I'd walk away, sounds like he's trying get in on the hype going on.

All that stuff shoots ok for me in my saiga. I don't care about the corrosive ones because I love to clean my weapon after each firing. For deer hunting I'd use premium US brass ammo that costs $15 for 20 rounds, but for everything else- whatever is ok. I'd assume these are practice rounds and price it accordingly. These guys have calculated right- $75 or so, take it or leave it.

If he or his mother really wants to sell it he will come down in price. He doesn't need it, and neither do you but are willing to take it off his hands. I wouldn't go over $135 for the whole lot.

im letting him sit on his stash at the moment...we are getting laid off on Saturday...if he wants it gone...he'll end up selling it to me for cheap. i didn't say anything to him about it today...i think he was a little bugged about it!