Ammo Shortage Done?

[riverrambler]

ammo shortage

Yes the hoarders certainly put a serious crimp on my reloading a few years back. Took me 8 months to get small pistol primers. Had to load every thing with mag primers.
Nice to see powder and primers on the shelves again. I see locally the price for 1# kegs have dropped $2 to $3.00.
Be interesting to see if the new Ca ammo laws will have an effect.
I imagine millions of californians are scooping up as much ammo as they can get their hands on before next January

 

[Brasky]

Remington 500 count thunderbolt are down to $21.35 for 500 at my local Walmart.

Ammo is not selling well

 

[Racer X]

I am not sure there ever was a REAL shortage. There was a lot of hording, at all levels. Consumers bought all they could, even more than they thought they would ever need. Suppliers limited the amounts available for purchase, when they could and Distributers sat on inventory until people were willing to pay any price to get it. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.

I agree with this. All of the sudden, # of rounds fired on any given day didn't suddenly go up 5fold. It wasn't a consumption issue.

 

[MichiganScott]

I am not sure there ever was a REAL shortage. There was a lot of hording, at all levels. Consumers bought all they could, even more than they thought they would ever need. Suppliers limited the amounts available for purchase, when they could and Distributers sat on inventory until people were willing to pay any price to get it. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.

I doubt distributors sat on inventory waiting for prices to rise. They are in business to sell merchandise and sitting on inventory is a gamble when money would be better spent on acquiring more inventory.

 

[Ranger17]

A Family member gave me a $25 gift card for Bass Pro.
Only problem, the closest one is across the boarded and near Sacramento.
So I called them up on how to use it per the inter net. They said
that any purchase over $35.00..........ships free. For anything
under that there is a $5 shipping fee.
They sort of have me over a barrel.

Looks like I have a $20 gift card, instead. Bummer.

Maybe I will send it to a out of state in-law for Christmas? ...... stamps cost under 50 cents.
Just hate to see them get a free $5 on their card sales.

Can always hang on to the card for a bit, most retailers tend to lower shipping limits as we get closer to the holidays. As noted earlier, add something else now to hit the free ship. Or even check the BP site and see if the same gift card works at Cabelas yet (if they'd have a store or ship special that works for ya)