Handgun Ammo at Cabela's

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While they have a 5 box limit, the Hoffman Estates, IL store has plenty of handgun ammo...as long as you shoot .25 Auto or 5.7mm. Frankly, I've racked my brain trying to figure out why I would ever need 5 boxes of .25 Auto, even if I owned a gun in that caliber.
 
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.25 Auto is fun to shoot. I expend enough ammo that because of price I reload for it, although components are not always readily available. Think of it as reloadable 22.
 
I was in the Utah Scheels last nite. They didn’t even have shelving for handgun ammo any more. Other products are now where that ammo used to be.

Rifle ammo shelves had about 1/10th normal inventory in calibers with very limited popularity. Only about 15 boxes of shotgun ammo in 10ga, 16, and 28.

I’ve been in two Sportsmans Warehouse stores with no handgun ammo and the same limited rifle offerings.

My local gun store is in about the same shape for supplies of popular cartridges.
 
Buford57 said:
While they have a 5 box limit, the Hoffman Estates, IL store has plenty of handgun ammo...as long as you shoot .25 Auto or 5.7mm. Frankly, I've racked my brain trying to figure out why I would ever need 5 boxes of .25 Auto, even if I owned a gun in that caliber.
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.25 ACP in precisely the type of firearm that should be practiced with the most, if you carry one.

It's power is not going to be what makes it effective.... it's will be accuracy that will help a person prevail.
 
Was at bass pro yesterday. No hand gun ammunition of any kind. 4 boxes of 450 bushmaster rifle ammunition and 6 boxes of misc oddball shotgun ammunition in the store. 30 people in the “take a number” line to look at or purchase guns..
 
One of our local farm store chains is closing. Used to be a good source for common ammo and popular guns. No handgun ammo now, period. 12 and 10 gauge magnum steel. .450 Bushmaster. Some .280 that I might go back for if it is still there when they get to 75% off. For that matter if they go low enough I might take the Bushmaster and a Ruger American to shoot it, although I have no earthly use for it.
 
The local Wal-Mart is 100% out of all ammo. Even the odd hunting rifle chamberings that you can't use to hunt with in this state has been stripped clean.
 
Buford57 said:
While they have a 5 box limit, the Hoffman Estates, IL store has plenty of handgun ammo...as long as you shoot .25 Auto or 5.7mm. Frankly, I've racked my brain trying to figure out why I would ever need 5 boxes of .25 Auto, even if I owned a gun in that caliber.
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Not a round I'd have the patience or manual dexterity to reload.
 
They don't even have a handgun ammo section on the shelves at my local Cabelas anymore. Any ammo that comes in goes onto a cart in the aisle and is scavenged in seconds. I did recently find some oddball ammo at normal prices at another local place, 32acp and 44-40, both calibers I own but rarely shoot.
 
There has to be something people can do to hold ammo manufacturer's responsible for creating this shortage.
I don't want to hear about " 7 million new gun owners ....blah blah blah.."
I've seen the videos by ammo makers complaining about us complaining. Total BS.
They ARE purposely choking off inventory. They ARE purposely selling to only a handful of dealers. Gun Prime receives PALLETS of ammo that they show off on their YouTube channel all the time but not a single one of the gun stores in my state can get a box of ammo to save their lives. And what's left on the shelf is so over priced it's insane. $39.99 for 20 rounds of 7.62x25 Tokarev ****. Basically Military Surplus from who the hell knows where.
There has to be some way to sue these ammo makers. This has all been on purpose. It started in February 2020 and every week we keep seeing more and more companies coming forward revealing that they acted purposely to limit access to internet or to effect sales on certain books or whatever else they've been doing. So now it's too much to even CONSIDER that ammo and gun makers were doing the same thing? Limiting access to their products in anticipation of Nov 3rd and beyond?

No..I'm not a conspiracy nut. I'm watching the news and I'm watching the press releases these companies are putting out and it's right there in plain view for everyone to see if they just bothered looking.

Sorry for the rant but dammit....people need to start getting mad about this **** or it will never stop.
 
But, if you want a 100 round baggie of .380 practice ammo by a loader I've never heard of, CTD can accommodate you for the "get it while it's hot" low, low price of $199.95.
 
Tytan01 said:
There has to be something people can do to hold ammo manufacturer's responsible for creating this shortage.
I don't want to hear about " 7 million new gun owners ....blah blah blah.."
I've seen the videos by ammo makers complaining about us complaining. Total BS.
They ARE purposely choking off inventory. They ARE purposely selling to only a handful of dealers. Gun Prime receives PALLETS of ammo that they show off on their YouTube channel all the time but not a single one of the gun stores in my state can get a box of ammo to save their lives. And what's left on the shelf is so over priced it's insane. $39.99 for 20 rounds of 7.62x25 Tokarev ****. Basically Military Surplus from who the hell knows where.
There has to be some way to sue these ammo makers. This has all been on purpose. It started in February 2020 and every week we keep seeing more and more companies coming forward revealing that they acted purposely to limit access to internet or to effect sales on certain books or whatever else they've been doing. So now it's too much to even CONSIDER that ammo and gun makers were doing the same thing? Limiting access to their products in anticipation of Nov 3rd and beyond?

No..I'm not a conspiracy nut. I'm watching the news and I'm watching the press releases these companies are putting out and it's right there in plain view for everyone to see if they just bothered looking.

Sorry for the rant but dammit....people need to start getting mad about this **** or it will never stop.
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wow.



*slowly backs away
 
Hey, if anyone needs 50AE, 450 Bushmaster and 28 Nosler, the Sportsman’s in Kelso has several boxes of each. :D
 
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THE PILGRIM said:
Last handgun ammo I saw at Cabela’s was 454 Casull.
I don’t have one of those either.
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I do have a 454Cssull but no way do I shoot a lot of rounds at a time with that cannon.

A box of ammo goes a long way.

I still have a couple boxes I bought from Freedom Arms back in the 1980s.
 
Tytan01 said:
There has to be something people can do to hold ammo manufacturer's responsible for creating this shortage.
I don't want to hear about " 7 million new gun owners ....blah blah blah.."
I've seen the videos by ammo makers complaining about us complaining. Total BS.
They ARE purposely choking off inventory. They ARE purposely selling to only a handful of dealers. Gun Prime receives PALLETS of ammo that they show off on their YouTube channel all the time but not a single one of the gun stores in my state can get a box of ammo to save their lives. And what's left on the shelf is so over priced it's insane. $39.99 for 20 rounds of 7.62x25 Tokarev ****. Basically Military Surplus from who the hell knows where.
There has to be some way to sue these ammo makers. This has all been on purpose. It started in February 2020 and every week we keep seeing more and more companies coming forward revealing that they acted purposely to limit access to internet or to effect sales on certain books or whatever else they've been doing. So now it's too much to even CONSIDER that ammo and gun makers were doing the same thing? Limiting access to their products in anticipation of Nov 3rd and beyond?

No..I'm not a conspiracy nut. I'm watching the news and I'm watching the press releases these companies are putting out and it's right there in plain view for everyone to see if they just bothered looking.

Sorry for the rant but dammit....people need to start getting mad about this **** or it will never stop.
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Your local gun stores are small fish. Ammo from distributors/manufacturers is usually allocated. Small gun shops order per box as they need them. Larger ones maybe a few cases a month. Big stores put in standing orders at the beginning of the year for the entire year. I can only imagine the orders dedicated ammo dealers put in.

When you are a salesman that works on common you prioritize the guy that spends a millions dollars with you or the guy that spends $2000.
 
Since bass pro bought Cabela’s I have completely given up on them. As I travel for my job I used to almost never drive past a Cabela’s, I would always stop and check out the gun library and the bargain Cave. Yesterday afternoon I actually stopped at their location in Hammond Indiana. I went to check out the reloading section and noticed a bunch of people hanging out only to find that the employees We’re rolling a cart of ammunition to put on the shelves. The buzzards scooped it all up. The signs clearly said maximum five boxes but I saw plenty of people walking out with six or seven. Not sure how many you could get away with but they clearly did not enforce the five box rule

In the last several years I have noticed many Cabela’s letting their aquariums go downhill. This location always had one of the nicest and cleanest aquariums. Yesterday I noticed it was not pristine, still a very nice aquarium love to watch the huge snapping turtle,
 
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This is the third big panic I've seen since I started shooting. I know it's more fun to make everything into a big conspiracy, but this is just like the others, a bunch of scared people (with a large influx of new gun owners) are buying everything they can get their hands on, and the production hasn't been able to keep up with demand. That's it, just like last time. The companies are not throttling, they're still going through the same supply chains, and the .gov is not blocking your box of 9mm from getting to the store.

Also like last time, it will eventually get back to normal, and when it does, remember what you ran out of and keep enough of that in reserve so you won't be as upset for the next panic (which will come). In the meantime, find other ways to kill the time you'd otherwise spend shooting or hoarding ammo, a nice day fishing is a lot more calming than reading online about how messed up everything is all day.
 
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