Every month the ammunition figures are checked, dated and frozen at their own address, so a price you cite next year is still the price that was printed.
Every month I check what ammunition actually costs, read what the standards and the federal data say, and print the result with the date on it. Then I freeze that month at its own address and never touch it again.
That is the whole idea. A price you can cite next year is worth more than a price that was right this morning and quietly got written over.
Editions
- August 2026 — frozen 22 August
The current reading
The live page, re-dated only when the figures were actually pulled again, is the Ammo Shortage Tracker.
How the numbers are made
Where every price comes from, what gets left out of the benchmark and why, and what the date stamp means: How I Get These Numbers.
Work it out yourself
- Cost per round calculator — shipping and tax included, which is where most published figures quietly cheat.
- Reloading cost calculator — with the equipment break-even nobody else publishes.
Every figure on these pages may be quoted with attribution and a link to Popular Ammo.