Even then its crazy if you go the surplus route, went to a g/k show yesterday and dudes where trying to hawk "genuine soviet sniper" ammo for 50$ for a beat up pack with like 10 rounds and its just basic.

Yeesh. I've got about 400 rds of 7.62x54 sitting in my closet and I won't get them for what I paid for then in 2011 anymore

I'm probably going to get into reloading just so I can shoot this thing. I have probably fifty pieces of Norma brass sitting around just waiting to be reloaded.