"Ammo prices and heart palpitations..."
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Ammo prices and heart palpitations...
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Tytan01
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But according to "The Jasons'"....they are ON IT and getting that ammo out. We're all imagining that there's no ammo hitting store shelves across the country. According to the Jasons' it's all a conspiracy theory. They are pumping out millions of rounds a day 7 days a week!
Where the heck it's all going to is anyone's guess but I can tell you where it's NOT going....
Midway USA, Cheaper Than Dirt, Brownell's, No sporting good stores or gun stores in 99% of AZ, Ammo.com, Ammunition Depot , Academy Sporting Outdoors Online, Palmetto State Armory, Lucky Gunner, Cabela's, Sportsman's Guide, Gorilla Ammo, Sportsman's Warehouse, Optics Planet or any of the other 23 dozen online retailers of ammo.
And if they do have something it's 1 box of some oddball Russian "MM" round no one has ever heard of before.
But we're all just imagining things according to " The Jasons' ".
LVSteve
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Nice! I think this meets the definition of "putting things in perspective".
RobertJ.
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Sounds about right for these days.
I was in a little country store about 30 miles from here and saw three fifty-round boxes of Winchester .22LR. I did a double-take, as I thought they were marked $1.85. Well, I wasn't wearing my reading glasses, and they were actually priced at $18.50! Each!
I was in a little country store about 30 miles from here and saw three fifty-round boxes of Winchester .22LR. I did a double-take, as I thought they were marked $1.85. Well, I wasn't wearing my reading glasses, and they were actually priced at $18.50! Each!
Not that anyone on this board would do it, but I have seen so many instances of LGS, Dunhams, or Rural King put ammo on shelves at reasonable prices only to see local Armslist ads the next day selling this same ammo at 3-5 times the purchase price.
I was at a Dunhams a few weeks ago that had Remington range fodder at 13.99 with a 3 box limit and saw one couple with their son buy the limit at least 3 times in the 20 minutes I was in there.
So why should any retailer sell at pre-panic prices when a large part of their inventory is going to be bought just to be resold by ammo pigs?
I was at a Dunhams a few weeks ago that had Remington range fodder at 13.99 with a 3 box limit and saw one couple with their son buy the limit at least 3 times in the 20 minutes I was in there.
So why should any retailer sell at pre-panic prices when a large part of their inventory is going to be bought just to be resold by ammo pigs?
AJ
US Veteran
?? obvious ??
obvious - Bing
There is always somebody looking to make a profit at someone else's misfortune.
Capitalism is alive and well in America.
SpikeIDMT
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Its been like that for months.
And its only going to get worse.
Overseas ammo shipments will be gone very soon, and then all online sales will be shutdown
Shooting sports will be only for the rich man, oh yes, its coming.
People will look back on the Golden Years when $1 per rd ammo was available.
Wow, you may be right, but I hope you aren't. I remember after Sandy Hook the price of ammo was crazy. Just as an example though , I will use .22 ammo because I had just happened to buy a case of Federal bulk 525 boxes (5250 rounds) the week before. I had paid $170 shipped for the case which I thought was good. The weekend after SH, there was a gunshow in my city. I had a table. I had brought my recently purchased case of .22's to sell. I put one box on my table and marked it $50. Around 5 minutes later, the dealer who was setting up a few tables down from me, came by and asked if he could by it . I sold it to him and left the rest under my table.
The next morning as I was heading to my table, I passed the guy who bought the .22's. He told me he had sold the box to another dealer for $65!
I was shocked! When the show opened , I sold the rest of the case for a lot of money on the first day. I had people coming to my table and asking i"are you the guy with the .22 ammo?" When I got home that night, I had a decision to make. I had about 5000 more rounds of various manufacturers. I decided ammo prices would return to "normal" pretty soon and took all but 500 rounds of CCI back to the show the next day. I sold all but 100 rounds. Well, it wasn't only the price of .22 ammo that was the problem for a long time after that show. It was the fact that you could NEVER find any in stock! As you remember, it took years for the supply to catch up with demand. People, then, were saying that the low priced .22 days would never be seen again, and we better get used to the new normal. I just look back at my Palmetto State Armory orders and in January of last year, before all the "crazy" started, I bought a case of Winchester Black box bulk .22 ammo (4 X 1100) for $160 shipped. So, the case I bought before SH cost 3.2 cents per round, and the case I bought last year cost 3.6 cents per round. That was almost 10 years apart, so I think that is pretty good!
Long story......longer, we may never see "the good ole days" again, but I hope we do!
Larry
sipowicz
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Not so sure. Most real supporters already had guns. Most of these buyers, and I know quite a few in Cali, are not interested in joining the NRA, or gun rights in general, they just did a panic buy. In fact, a few asked me how many rounds they needed to fill the gun so my theory is the old schoolers were hoarding/stocking up.
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Old Corp
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I'll just be delving more into my stock of .22 ammo, some of which goes back to the Gerald Ford/Ronald Reagan years.....
skwchock
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Prices for ammo are "jawdropping". I get ads from Cheaper than dirt... they seem to be able to get ammo. Midway and Natchez also have sales. But the prices will only go higher with no end in sight ...
samnev
Member
Just my opinion.
I believe with the Dems in control of all 3 Legislative branches pf the government by the time they are thru with the agenda things will only get worse. I hope I'm wrong.
I believe with the Dems in control of all 3 Legislative branches pf the government by the time they are thru with the agenda things will only get worse. I hope I'm wrong.
AJ
US Veteran
Another happy day........last weekend I found 4500 rounds of .22 LR that I had forgotten that I had. Today while cleaning out a bag I carry to a .22 Steel Match at the local range, I found 500 more rounds!! I guess I better keep looking.
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First day of a two day auction today with live and online bidding. 308 reloads @ $1 a round. Two boxes of factory Remington 45.70 govt are already @ $110 a box for tomorrow. 22 target ammo 9 to 10 dollars a box. $950 + 18% + shipping for a 5000 round case of plinking grade 22LR.
Exactly and this is totally different from any prior ammo shortage issues. There may very well be no return to normal. Also Federal and CCI are selling boxes for lot I mean a lot more than they used to and rarely have anything in stock. They are not magically going to go back to old prices when they have dug into the greed and making piles more of cash. Just my 2 cents.
Eric
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Also like someone mentioned the really only good people in this ammo crisis has been the big box stores like Walmart and Cabelas which is sad to say but are still selling ammo for around the same price. I used to love supporting local mom and pop shops but those days are done once I seen all the greed of ripping people off. Now I could care less if they stay open or not anymore.
Eric
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Eric
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touchoneoff
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Just like with anything else, like toilet paper. If people didn't get into the "panic" mode, and bought ammo like they always did, nothing would have changed...just like with the TP shortage, now it's everywhere again.
People are the problem, not the market supply. JMHO
