How much hunting are you doing? It's an honest question - you may well be going full live-off-the-land where you actually go through a large quantity.
For defensive use, short of a civil war starting, you basically buy a box or two and you're good until you feel you need to lifecycle it out. I'm not certain how often most people replace the hollowpoints in their carry weapon, but I can't imagine it's often. That'd be on the scale of years. Even if ammo is hard to come by and super expensive, paying e.g. $1/round is peanuts when it's an every 5 years thing or what have you.
Youre not getting good hunting ammo for $1 per round. Not even close. And i do do a lot of hunting, its only wild game at my house, no store bought meat other than an occasional pack of bacon. And i target shoot all of my rifles with my hunting ammo. No point target shooting my hunting rifles with cheap shit that doesnt shoot to the same poi or hold as tight of groups.
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