Ammo prices and heart palpitations...

[Beemerguy53]

So...last night I was doing a little web surfing to check out the latest ammunition prices. I don't really need anything, but I was wondering if the situation is improving...and the answer seems to be no.

Common handgun and rifle cartridges, if you can find them, are close to, or even well over, $1 per round. Quality American-made handgun rounds are even more expensive: Hornady 9mm JHP, 25 rounds for $48!

But what really caused my jaw to drop was seeing a 525-round "Value Pack" of Federal .22LR priced at $190...and Remington Thunderbolt .22LR at $185 for a brick!

I literally did a double take and checked to make sure I was reading that right. Friends, I think we have a whole new definition of the word "insanity"...

 

[joeb1]

Here's a real bargain.

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[LVSteve]

I have stopped the casual shooting side of my gun hobby. If I don't absolutely have to shoot, I don't. Oddly enough the COVID situation makes this quite easy.

 

[Sikiguya]

Even shotgun ammunition is affected. It wasn't during the 2014 ammo shortage.

Those that have stocked up are counting their blessings. Those that didn't are scrambling.


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[ACORN]

CTD has .380acp for only $129 for 50.

 

[WuzzFuzz]

Ah yes, high ammo prices...It's time to go back to one's first love.....









A BB gun.



WuzzFuzz

 

[6518John]

As I have posted before, if every gun owner in America would stop buying this insanity would end. I bet it would not take more than 60-90 days for the markets to return to normal.

 

[moralem]

Free market forces......I pay to play, and if I can't pay then I choose another hobby......not everyone is going to stop buying that's just the reality.

 

[lihpster]

Ah yes, high ammo prices...It's time to go back to one's first love.....









A BB gun.



WuzzFuzz

Actually been looking at airsoft guns lately. I can shoot those in my back yard and they aren't any more stupidly expensive then they were before.

 

[Faulkner]

I have stopped the casual shooting side of my gun hobby. If I don't absolutely have to shoot, I don't. Oddly enough the COVID situation makes this quite easy.

I think as more people are encouraged, or forced through necessity, to reduce the demand the supply will start to catch up.

 

[billwill]

Obviously there are a lot of people that do not have the 'squirrel gene'

Hard to find acorns in a snow storm

 

[pharmer]

I could sell 1 box of 525 Federal .22's for what I paid for the case. Would take 2 boxes of 9mm to do the same. If'n I knew this was "passing" like evry other "shortage", I might be tempted. I do reckon I've ordered the last case from Target Sports that I'm ever going to be permitted to. Hope to be wrong. Joe

 

[Sam McCord]

I am amused by the folks that believe there is going to be a, "return to normal". It's never going to happen. That's just the way it is and you better get your mind right about it.

 

[Doug627]

I don't know if it is insanity or just gouging. We should remember who is gouging and when the hysteria is over don't buy from those sellers.

 

[vt_shooter]

I understand demand has gone through the roof, and production of ammunition is running at full throttle, what I don't understand is why my LGS is getting less ammunition. If my LGS is getting less, and production is more, where is it going if not to my LGS, and why not to my LGS?

 

[lihpster]

I understand demand has gone through the roof, and production of ammunition is running at full throttle, what I don't understand is why my LGS is getting less ammunition. If my LGS is getting less, and production is more, where is it going if not to my LGS, and why not to my LGS?

Because even the LGS's that are in the back of beyond and normally sell a few boxes of deer rifle rounds and maybe some handgun rounds are suddenly overrun with people who will buy anything, as long as it's ammo. 6.38MM Schutzen*******? I'll take 3 boxes! Now they order more to resupply and there is less to go around for all gun stores. Also, even though it sucks, the factories are gonna sell first to the big boys and then take care of the mom and pop stores.

 

[Huskerguy]

Because even the LGS's that are in the back of beyond and normally sell a few boxes of deer rifle rounds and maybe some handgun rounds are suddenly overrun with people who will buy anything, as long as it's ammo. 6.38MM Schutzen*******? I'll take 3 boxes! Now they order more to resupply and there is less to go around for all gun stores. Also, even though it sucks, the factories are gonna sell first to the big boys and then take care of the mom and pop stores.

Suppliers do not generally sell directly the mom and pop stores. They buy from distributors who may buy from another distributor. When you are at the end of the supply chain and have relatively low overall sales, your bark isn't going to resonate.

 

[Huskerguy]

I don't know if it is insanity or just gouging. We should remember who is gouging and when the hysteria is over don't buy from those sellers.

And yet one of the gougers of the past crisis is back at it again and while they offer prices that are less than the ground we walk on, in my opinion, their business tactics are lower than the top soil I tread.

 

[ralph7]

And yet one of the gougers of the past crisis is back at it again and while they offer prices that are less than the ground we walk on, in my opinion, their business tactics are lower than the top soil I tread.

They have been at this awhile now and CTD will never get a cent from me.

 

[boykinlp]

But what really caused my jaw to drop was seeing a 525-round "Value Pack" of Federal .22LR priced at $190...and Remington Thunderbolt .22LR at $185 for a brick!

I literally did a double take and checked to make sure I was reading that right. Friends, I think we have a whole new definition of the word "insanity"...

I'm RICH........and didn't even know it!
Larry