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The Ammo Shortage
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100% right. And even when you start turning a profit there are ways... SEPs are a wonderful thing!
The shows I have been going to the guns have been fairly priced. Nothing really below MSRP but nothing really above either. There are a few vendors who try to gouge you but as long as you do your research you will be fine.
Too short on time to reload, just gotten out corrosive combloc 7.62x25mm ammo.
Forgot how much fun that round is to shoot, and it will help stretch the other ammo.
Got a text from a former brother in law, did I have any 38 or 45 to spare?
I reload those, and just don't have factory ammo. Felt bad. He's on wait lists, and I know he has enough SD ammo, so.
AA
Forgot how much fun that round is to shoot, and it will help stretch the other ammo. Got a text from a former brother in law, did I have any 38 or 45 to spare?
I reload those, and just don't have factory ammo. Felt bad. He's on wait lists, and I know he has enough SD ammo, so. AA
This will make some folks mad and some folks furious but price gouging doesn't exist. It's a human construct.
Crazy to think just a few years ago I was buying Norma .308 ammo from Midway for $139/200rds.
Hell, I thought the brass itself was worth that since I reload. (Norma is the best brass going not named Lapua.)
I could probably sell each of those boxes for $400 right now ...
Thats not "gouging," that's supply and demand. No one is going to accept a lower price for an item than someone will pay. No one.
Hell, I thought the brass itself was worth that since I reload. (Norma is the best brass going not named Lapua.)
I could probably sell each of those boxes for $400 right now ...
Thats not "gouging," that's supply and demand. No one is going to accept a lower price for an item than someone will pay. No one.
My only experience with Norma brass was with some .308. One of the selling points was that it was already prepped, but the overall case length was way short.
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I have figured out the ammo shortage. It was all in Ft. Worth this past weekend at the Premier Gun Show. I have never seen so many vendors with tables packed full of ammo. No guns just ammo. Multiply that by lord knows how many shows across the US. It really pissed me off, no wonder the common man cannot buy any.
What were the prices like?
Not quite
... I "might" have seen just short of a half a million rounds of 9mm at a place I "might" have visited recently. Apparently they go thru about 40,000 rounds a month for proofing.
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Depended on caliber, some vendors were "reasonable" for the times, others were outrageous on popular calibers. .380, 9MM, .45 etc.
Academy now sells only 2 boxes..... and all they had 855 ($13) nd M8 ($24).... one each..... They had nothing else....but this was better than before.
ND the loco Wallies had some 308... now I think 4 of 20g and they will not sell any more. The good days of stoping at W before going to the range for some ammo are gone (4eva).
ND the loco Wallies had some 308... now I think 4 of 20g and they will not sell any more. The good days of stoping at W before going to the range for some ammo are gone (4eva).
Saw *two* lonely boxes of shotgun shells, one 12 and one 20, at wally.
Of course they were soon gone.
AA
Of course they were soon gone.
AA
As is morality.
Lol’d. Fo Ev A...
"Price Gouging": a high-demand item you want that someone else has for sale at a price you're not willing to pay because you fooled around when you should have stocked up when it cost less when demand was lower.
Our Scheels store has more boxes of .28 and .16 gauge than .20, .12 and pistol ammo put together. When is the last time anyone saw that.
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There was an article in the last AR issue about the ammo shortage.
Zent, John. 2021. "America's Ammo Shortage: When Will It End?" American Rifleman, March 2021, pp 50-52.
They are saying it's due to people hoarding, new shooters, and panic buying, and the ammo makers are running at full speed. No idea of when things will get back to normal. Looks like it's the new toilet paper.
Glad I found a couple of boxes of .45 ACP a few weeks ago. All set on that and other calibers now. I just can't go burn it up a lot.
Zent, John. 2021. "America's Ammo Shortage: When Will It End?" American Rifleman, March 2021, pp 50-52.
They are saying it's due to people hoarding, new shooters, and panic buying, and the ammo makers are running at full speed. No idea of when things will get back to normal. Looks like it's the new toilet paper.
Glad I found a couple of boxes of .45 ACP a few weeks ago. All set on that and other calibers now. I just can't go burn it up a lot.
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