My philosophy on stocking up always has been , if you have $20 in your pocket when you walk in a shop, and they have a box or two of ammo you can get with that $20, buy it.

When you go to the range, if you shoot two boxes of ammo, buy 3 next time you are in a shop.

If you see a sale for something like $85 for 500 rounds of 9mm, but two cases.

It has served me well, I was well stocked going into the pandemic, and most I have spent on 9mm or .380 was about $27.50 a box, then I stopped buying if it is more than that.

I have only gotten 2 boxes of .38 special since last march, $30 each for flat nose jacketed, I bought about 8 boxes of "remanufactured" .38 a year ago at $17.95 a box, and haven't seen any of that since. Nice wadcutters, and jacketed wadcutters too.

.22LR is outrageous, but I stocked up at Dick's when they stopped selling guns, got over 7000 rounds for about 3.7 cents a round. I am happy I did that.

I have slowed down shooting a bit which I don't like, have been shooting more .22LR and 22wmr than anything else really.