Have to post the 20 ga RXPs were obtained from Remington Farms armory. I was running a large group of young'uns through the trap range at a National Hunting/Fishing Day get together. Had 10 1100 20 ga guns and cases and cases of the 20 ga 2nds. Shells were fine as they had the RXP logo out of place or missing. They shot over 5000 shells at the trap fields. I came home with 3000 once fired empties more or less. I think I may even have some I reloaded still after all these years
At Wally World.
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Years ago after they quit making "cases" a friend would buy wholesale and ask how many I wanted. I would tell him X number of cases and he would double it and say "flats" and I would reply "correct".
Now that I'm old and weak I glad they don't make real cases anymore.
LarryYeah...a "case" of 12 ga even trap loads are heavy. Way back quite a few years I sold almost a thousand real cases of waterfowl loads in 6 days. Lead loads..not steel . After those 6 days I thought my back was broken. All 2 3/4 and 3 inch 12s. And a few cases of 10 ga thrown in. I kept a few of them for quite a few years. The gummit trapper bought them because they were Fed Premium BBs. He used 'em on coyotes from an airplane. I even sold the fellow my last Ithaca Deluxe Mag 10.... Good guns and Federal Premiums were great for waterfowl
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Wally's had more shotgun ammo yesterday than I've seen there in a long time. Prices double what they used to be.
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Powder, primers, bullets and RCBS reloading stuff at the Walmarts in Washington and many Nevada stores. Bought plenty of the above. Also picked up a Beretta Xplor 12 ga for $1200, about $500 below MSRP.
I believe this is the main reason for the shortages.
To be honest that is not the reason for the shortages. Right now shotshells esp the cheaper mid range ammo is becoming very plentiful in 12 and 20. That is what the average shotshell shooter uses these days. The big deal is the costs now. Shotgun shooting numbers are down big time. I am partial owner of a skeet/trap/sporting range. Targets thrown are way down. People can't really afford the cost of ammo and costs of rounds at the clubs. Metallic Ammo in the regular normal calibers that disappeared are coming back at, of course, a higher cost. Primers are no available pre pandemic. A friend said he read they are running the ammo factories full bore 24/7. They may be...but remember...24/7 doesn't mean they are running as many lines as they used to. There is a major shortage of people wanting to work...and a transportation worker shortage...commodity worker shortage. Until we get people back to work and off the dole...shortages will continue. Which with the political and medical climate now...may be part of the problem. Covid...Monkey Pocks??...Remember there used to be more primer makers than we have now...and more imported. What happened to the imports??
I still have a few of the old real "Cases" of shotgun ammo in the house but in todays shopping, all you see now is half cases or, "Flats" as they are called, with just ten box's. holding 25 rounds.
The good thing is, at my age, the flats are a lot easier to get to the car and easier on my back.
If a person is a serious trap shooter, it is real easy to go through 1-2 flats a day, mostly if there is a shoot off.
$7-8 a box is a great price in these times, mostly if you can find ammo !!
