Seven High
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You might get in contact with older gun owners or their surviving spouses to inquire about their supply being available.
Ammo prices and heart palpitations...
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Local shop has this ad....$17 for 20...not good, but still 85 cents per..of course i paid 20 cents for primers, 30 cents for bullets....if I didn't have cases it might not look too bad...
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Green Frog
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As I've read this and many other threads here and elsewhere, I've been struck by one thing... the sheer scope of shortages... this is the first time I remember across the board shortages of anything that goes bang... rimfire, centerfire pistol, centerfire rifle (large and small), shotgun (all gauges) and reloading components (especially primers, of course.) Like Obama, Biden certainly is a great encouraging influence on guns and ammo sales, and when you add to that civil unrest the overall concern about a worldwide pandemic, it is indeed the perfect storm. Oh yeah, Global Warming probably has something to do with it too! 
Froggie
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You're right. If everyone stopped buying toilet paper we would not be thinking about ammo prices.
I'm glad that I'm not causing any of the current ammo problem.
I finished buying in Jan. last year.
Larry
I finished buying in Jan. last year.
Larry
Grayfox
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This situation leaves me in a bit of a quandary. I learned my lesson from past shortages. I have a good supply of ammo and have components to make more.
I could sell off some of it at a ridiculous profit. After all, more money is always nice. However, I'm financially sound and really don't need the cash.
OTOH, I'm not shooting either. The problem being that if I shoot my ammo, will I be able to replace it in the future at a reasonable cost?
So basically, I'm just sitting on my stockpile and doing nothing with it.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
As for getting back to normal... I believe the supply will catch up and prices will go down. However, they will never go back to what just a year ago was normal.
I could sell off some of it at a ridiculous profit. After all, more money is always nice. However, I'm financially sound and really don't need the cash.
OTOH, I'm not shooting either. The problem being that if I shoot my ammo, will I be able to replace it in the future at a reasonable cost?
So basically, I'm just sitting on my stockpile and doing nothing with it.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
As for getting back to normal... I believe the supply will catch up and prices will go down. However, they will never go back to what just a year ago was normal.
This situation leaves me in a bit of a quandary. I learned my lesson from past shortages. I have a good supply of ammo and have components to make more.
I could sell off some of it at a ridiculous profit. After all, more money is always nice. However, I'm financially sound and really don't need the cash.
OTOH, I'm not shooting either. The problem being that if I shoot my ammo, will I be able to replace it in the future at a reasonable cost?
So basically, I'm just sitting on my stockpile and doing nothing with it.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
As for getting back to normal... I believe the supply will catch up and prices will go down. However, they will never go back to what just a year ago was normal.
We say that every panic, and between the last one and this current one ammo prices were about as cheap as they've ever been. Sell the stuff you don't need, enjoy other hobbies, do what you want. Even if you're right, you'll still have been paid way more than the eventual replacement price. I sold a bunch of guns and ammo during panic and regret none of it. Granted, I didn't ask full market, but enough to make a healthy process and give what counts as a "deal" these days.
Let's get real. There is no "gouging," whatever that is.
Conservatives extol the free market as a gift from God and the natural order of things . . . . Until Adam Smith's invisible hand marks 9mm at a buck a shot. Then they squall about "gouging."
In a free market, buyers,not sellers, set the prices
That's what's going on here. When nobody pays a buck a round, prices will return to the old normal
Conservatives extol the free market as a gift from God and the natural order of things . . . . Until Adam Smith's invisible hand marks 9mm at a buck a shot. Then they squall about "gouging."
In a free market, buyers,not sellers, set the prices
That's what's going on here. When nobody pays a buck a round, prices will return to the old normal
SpikeIDMT
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As for getting back to normal... I believe the supply will catch up and prices will go down. However, they will never go back to what just a year ago was normal.
I was just going to say searching for "deals" online is a waste of time now, but got a tip Super Vel (the new company version) was selling their 9mm +p 115gr SCHP at last years prices for defensive ammo.
Snagged a few boxes before it went OOS, yay me, at least one company isnt over pricing.
One critical difference. There wasn't an 8 million increase in the number of people using toilet paper in the last 12 months.
There have been 8 million new first-time gun owners in the last 12 months. Even if they only bought 100 rounds each that is 800 million additional rounds purchased. Most likely have bought 2 or 3 times that much, and few would have been foolish enough to buy less than 100 rounds to go with their new and only gun.
Pretty safe to say that more than an extra billion rounds of ammo were sold this last year - a billion rounds that nobody anticipated.
Bumpus13
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Oddly, I'm about to be the opposite.
I'm about ready to start getting back into more regular practice ... also Covid related. I was lucky enough to get my second dose this past Friday. Once immunity kicks in, I won't have to keep hiding my compromised immune system from the world to stay healthy. I can't wait, and at the same time am concerned about how much rust I've picked up - I haven't dropped the hammer on a live round since around Halloween. (& before that it was April) Marksmanship (especially with handguns) is a perishable skill.
Dry-fire practice simply ain't the same. And since I only shot around 200 rounds total in the last year, my ammo pile is basically still intact.
I look at the prices boxes of ammo are going for, and start to wonder if I can afford to actually fire all of my stash. I mean, of course I can - I bought them to shoot them. But, I'm wondering if it would be financially irresponsible to ignore a potential 600% return on a consumable resource.
These prices are making the idea of selling some look extremely tempting. Especially considering that these panics keep happening periodically in cycles, and we're very likely going to eventually be able to replace it cheap again relatively soon. (Can't see this continuing a whole lot longer than it already has)
Nowhere near the whole stack, mind you. I'm not nuts. LOL
It just seems like a helluva opportunity to make some $$$ on an extra 1 or 2,000 rounds of 9mm that others are fighting each other to pay through the nose for. Then hold the loot, and later turn it back into 5 times what you sold.
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Like everyone else has already said I feel like I have my own personal bank vault in the basement with all the previously purchased ammunition.
And as well I also have not been to the range in a very long time. I just cheap enough that I'll practice with one of those laser dry fire systems.
On the issue of price, I know likely none of us have to worry about a safari level rifle but the cost of that ammo caught my eye the other day. A box of 10 505 Gibbs 248.00. I'm guessing you don't use up much of that.
And as well I also have not been to the range in a very long time. I just cheap enough that I'll practice with one of those laser dry fire systems.
On the issue of price, I know likely none of us have to worry about a safari level rifle but the cost of that ammo caught my eye the other day. A box of 10 505 Gibbs 248.00. I'm guessing you don't use up much of that.
AJ
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At the last local gun show there was a man selling what he presented as an "Estate Sale". He had 9 boxes of .375 H&H and was asking $40 a box. My friend has a .375 H&H and uses it in Africa about every other year. He was looking at it and the guy said if you take them all he would make it $30 a box. So for $270 he bought them all. I looked them up on line and they were on sale for $96 a box. So deals can be had.
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Decided to check our local sporting goods store that I like and while they are currently out of stock but soon to be replenished. A bucket of 1400 .22LR is 79.99.
Better than the prices in this thread for sure. But I am in Arizona so there is that.
Better than the prices in this thread for sure. But I am in Arizona so there is that.
AJ
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If it is out of stock, you still can't afford it........... Hope for your sake that they get it back in and at the same price.
THE PILGRIM
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I gave my SIL ammo for Christmas.
45ACP, 12GA and 22LR.
One of the boxes of 22s was a Federal Value pack.
I just hope he appreciates what I gave him!
45ACP, 12GA and 22LR.
One of the boxes of 22s was a Federal Value pack.
I just hope he appreciates what I gave him!
He better — you gave him your daughter
nipperdog
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I have Plenty of Ammo,Powder, and Primers but I'm totally disgusted with the Present Conditions. I locked up all of my guns in the safe except my EDC, and got back into Ham Radio for a While. My Range is closed due to Covid19. I could shoot in the backyard but I don't want to P/O my Neighbors.
AJ
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Conversely on the other side of the state our range is open. Almost straight across SR 60. Come on over!
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OTOH, I'm not shooting either. The problem being that if I shoot my ammo, will I be able to replace it in the future at a reasonable cost?
So basically, I'm just sitting on my stockpile and doing nothing with it.
So, if you don't shoot it, what's the sense of having it? I'm shooting it now and enjoying my retirement. If I run out, I'll use my bow and error....LOL.
The option is to sit in the house and look out the window. Then when I die my kids can take it all to the LGS and he'll give them 5c a round and they'll think that's OK.
Having a full ammo locker that can't be shot, or an empty one and memories of shooting it all - that's the choice.
