>>The one nearest to me only carries shells but, as I said and posted they have lots of supply on hand. Maybe not the type FMJ vs. JHP etc,,, They were up 20% since I last bought locally but, we target shoot a lot. I buy in bulk typically. Preparing the family regiment for the battlefield, no not hardly? You are probably not terribly realistic, what item at the store has gone down in price lately?
>>Seriously, if you have successfully hunted anything, you can find everything you might possibly need out there. Maybe "on sale" just like a friend and good shopping buddy of mine did yesterday. $50-100 off already marked down firearms. Including M-1's, AK copies w/ folding stocks, $299.99. I counted maybe 35 different military style rifles, all on sale $50-100 bucks. He bought the big yellow and black boxes, he has a 38 Special so he got JHP, 250 rounds at 50% off $49.99! The list was endless.
Across the nation, more posters feed the fires of fear when they dejectedly chime in with similar "grave" reports of panic buying. They too have returned from the hunt, vast trackless suburban jungles have become barren wastelands devoid of ammunition!
>>Nonsense, are we American's or, a bunch of spoiled frightened cry babies?
Any successful purchases are posted beside dire admonitions; they said that I purchased the "last" box. Also, my personal favorite, "further re-stocking of the ammunition selves is not expected" anytime soon!
>>Fear is the Greatest Tool of the Enemy. We have nothing to fear but fear itself! Get busy at whatever you think that you need to do now.
This extremely sad fairy tale! It gets progressively worse; we are told that posters were forced into paying enormous price increases for whatever ammunition was available at the store.
>>We saw at the least 100,000 boxes of shells, all of this was at one sporting goods store! Of course, I'd scouted it repeatedly, buying a box here or there. I've never seen more than one customer at the gun counter before in ten visits. Nobody paid attention to them, but that was why I did pay attention! A resourceful hunter does his homework before the opening day of the season anyway. When everybody else flocked to huge Cabela's, Gander Mtn. etc,,, I had my little tender gun store.
They report vicious shortages and "fire fights" erupting everywhere they shop; we have walked right into perfectly prepared digital ambush made worse and worse ginned up by many well meaning posters. They only spur panic buying, heart attacks and sleepless nights. No ammunition is apparently available anywhere across this nation.
>>Those people that champion "gun control" are causing their perfect storm. Panic grows into fear that will ignite somewhere and then we will become our own enemy.
I know that some of these posters are outsiders; they are banking upon starting trouble, division and stress in our camp. Just remember, people that have reported they can't find ammunition might just be phonies, cynically trying to cause someone to snap! Then Eric Holder and his buddies will disarm the lot of us piecemeal. The new government succeeds in disarming us when someone suddenly twists off.
Then the holy "One" will suddenly fill his annual tags and bag limit.
Tomorrow, I will post pictures of the place I visited yesterday complete with prices!
Now, go boldly forward walking upright, shoulders squared with courageous hearts.
Well heck. When does the season open and what is the limit?
I will bump this!
I usually can still find good deals if I buy in bulk.
I have about a thousand rounds of each caliber I own. Except for the bolt action pistol. Only 800 rounds for that. Time to stock up.
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I just saw Death Wish III last night and so want to get a .475 Wildey Magnum.
Agreed on the campaign of instigation and hysteria.
Plenty of ammo available at the gun shows I’ve been to in MD & PA. Reasonable prices too.
It appears that NOONE has any of this stuff.
Yes, yes, I know the story about the wholesalers hording ammo and releasing a little at a time to extract HUGE price increases, but brass seems to be a different animal. No one has any and you can't even back order any of it. (.308 that is).
I have been on a waiting list for an M1A for some time now. MidwayUSA, Natchez, Graf&Sons, and virtually every other supplier of reloading components is out of stock on my common component purchases — 9mm 124gr fmj (or equivalent) and .224 69gr and 55gr fmj bt. As Burt Gummer said in Tremors 2, “I’m completely out of ammo. That’s never happened to me before.” Ok, so I’m not completely out, and I still have enough to make it through this summer’s IDPA season if I practice a lot with .22, but I’m not thrilled about it.
Another thing that’s really ticking me off is that the massive increases in metals prices that started the run up in ammo costs effectively ended last December. Lead was trading at something like $2/lb before plummeting to $0.55/lb. But then Zero has to go and get himself elected, and there’s another great excuse to keep component costs high. I hate Illinois nazis.
In my part of the country, even the lowly WASR-10 is going for over 500 bucks.
Just bought a Walther PPK, can’t find .380 auto anyplace!
Wal-mart 1 has no centerfire rifle or pistol ammo and has not for since late October. It is in the more upscale part of town. The Dept Manager told me last week that he quit even trying to order it. Shotgun is plentiful and the Skeet\trap club is close by.
Wal-mart two the Department Manager told me two weeks ago that he gets his orders filled from the distribution center at about a 50% rate. (BTW the Distribution center is here in town.)
Wal-marts three and four all have reasonable stock of both pistol and rifle ammo but not if you are looking to buy a thousand rounds. They have possibly 200 rounds of most calibers and shotgun is well stocked.
Both Scheel's, Cabela's and Sportsmans Warehouse were wiped out of ALL common pistol ammo during the last month. Sales inventory is grabbed up instantly and common rifle ammo is snapped up as well. The Gun Dept manager at Cabela's told me he started doubling his orders in November and only receives about 75% from his suppliers. Both Cabela's and the Sportsmans receive powder on Tuesday it is ALL gone by Wednesday am. Cleaned out.
Components are hard to come by and it is a right place and time kind of thing. I have way more hours into obtaining ammo than I care to think about due to the current situation.
The last gun show was the weekend before Thanksgiving. The largest ammo distributor was wiped out of 5.56 and 7.62 by noon on Friday the opening day of the show and he told me he brought 2x the normal quantity. AR, SKS and other common guns were in good supply but prices were in the $1800 to 2500 range fro brand name Ar's.
Someone could make a good buck by manufacturing steel cased 7.62x39 and 5.56/.223 here in the US or maybe CCI could make it with aluminum cases. I know they make pistol cases with aluminum but haven't seen bottleneck rifle cases.
Classic case of price/demand inelasticity. But when the ammo bubble bursts and the prices come back down, you’ve still got ammo. That’s something.
