Finally found some ammo...

[jughed440]

The guys on the ice chests aren't the problem. The people stupid enough to pay their prices are. People stop paying those prices and the ice chest guys disappear. I don't want to hear about new shooters needing ammo. If I was a first time gun buyer, I'd be forced to buy ONE box of ammo so I could defend my family...

Exactly.

Many GB ammo auctions start the bidding at a penny...it's the late comers and sleepers who come up with the ridiculous prices that match or surpass the set prices of the greedy online retailers.

It's shocking to me that people will pay $3/rd .44 Special, or $4-5 for a single 00 Buck shotgun shell. Not shocking to me that they blame the sellers and "hoarders" instead of themselves. Glad I don't need to pay that much.
I'll never have 100K rounds of ammo stored up, and i refuse to complain about people who do. Good for them!

 

[Johnnu2]

I'll say this one more time; the ONLY way to control prices of anything:

DO NOT BUY....no matter how much it hurts.... DO NOT BUY

J.

 

[Bumpus13]

I encourage ever shooter out there to start reloading. Every
cal mentioned I load for and have a great supply of brass, powder,
bullets and primers. And for you younger guys, when you buy
components, push yourself and buy primers by the sleeve (5K) bullets
by the thousands and lots and lots of powder. When this is over, it will
happen again. Everyone gets advice. Only the wise profit from it.

Nah. No interest. I'm glad you enjoy it, but it's not for everyone.

There's more than one way to skin a cat. I just buy factory rounds when they're cheap and stack them deep. These panics don't affect me either.

 

[gnystrom]

One of my LGS got in 1000 boxes of Blazer in 50 ct. boxes. Two days later they still have over 850 on the shelf. Priced at $4.99/bx with two box per person limit. I thought it would be gobbled up in a day.
Across the highway, Scheels was unloading three pallets of Winchester M855 at $114.95/bx of 150.

 

[OldSarge21]

Was out looking for 16ga shells yesterday. Didn't find any, but did find three boxes of 300 savage, 280 rounds of 30 carbine soft points, three boxes of 6mm Remington, and some 30 cal bullets all at pre-Covid / panic prices. Wasn't exactly cheap, being all hunting ammo, but at least it wasn't inflated.

 

[Buford57]

I'm a Category 1 guy. I watched my Dad make the largest ammo purchase of his life (a brick of .22LR) when the world ended in 1968. I weathered the Clinton gun bill apocalypse, survived the Obama panic and expect to see the end of the COVID/Biden/peaceful protest drought if I live long enough. My only ammo related purchases since last March have been components for calibers I didn't previously reload and deals on factory ammo that I would have been a fool to pass up in normal times ($15/50 .38 Super, $5/20 .280 Rem, $10/20 .35 Whelen and $0.50 per box .22LR).

I am not shooting as much as I did a year ago, but that is due more to other factors (family obligations, weather) than any concern over running out of ammo. I fully expect my estate to include ammo and components.

 

[pasound]

I'm Category 1. I started buying ammo in earnest after Ob's reelection. For a long while big online wholesalers were my goto. Now none can get their usual stock. Fortunately, I have less than I want, but more than I need of all of my calibers.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

The scarcity and high prices are permanent.
There will be some fluctuations year to year, as average prices and availability improve somewhat, but we will never see 2019 prices and supply levels again.
I have stopped all shooting of rifle and pistol cartridge guns, except for a couple of my carry guns which I shoot 6 to 10 rounds of ammo through every six months or so. Ammo has become too precious for me to burn up in target practice. What I have on hand I bought cheap years ago, and replacement costs are scary.
I have several black powder guns and an ample supply of powder, caps, and flints. These guns will do anything I am likely to need a firearm for, so they will be my " go to " guns for the foreseeable future.

Nope. Not permanent. Things will swing back at some point.

 

[charlie sherrill]

I stocked up a long time ago and every time the crisis is over I stock up again. I had promised a friend of mine a pack of venison sausage. He called today and said that if I meet him halfway between Hattiesburg and Jakistan (Jackson,Ms.) he would give me a 20 round box of .357 magnum. I don't look a gift horse in the mouth so I didn't ask him what kind it was and I was going to give him the sausage anyway. I was very surprised when he handed me a very new looking 20 round box of Black Talon. Now, do I carry it or sell it? I'm leaning toward carrying it.

 

[flycaster]

My (former) LGS sent out an email blast that it had "limited amounts" of 9mm, at the "give away" price of $39.95/50. Thank you, but no.

Chuck