The Ammo crybabies are jumping for joy.

[ladyT]

Friday was a bad day. WWB 100 round box of 45ACP has jumped to 55 cents a round including tax.

9mm has jumped to 48 cents a round with tax.

Federal 5.56 ball is 65 cents a round with tax.

13% increases on Remington and Federal 22lr and 20% on CCI.

I don't know about .40 cal as its as rare as hens teeth around here and the same for 10mm.

Remington 38 special is 41 cents a round.

Blazer Aluminum 44 special is 87 cents a round including tax.


I can no longer afford to shoot at these prices. Oh well the whiners and crybabies must be happy.

 

[CHASLX200]

Guess you can always get into PCP airguns.

 

[Poodle Soup]

Why would anyone be happy about increased prices?

 

[JFR]

What store was this at?

 

[bobermo]

Sounds like you need to find some other ammo sources. Walmart and cabelas have kept ammo prices steady since december.

Some current prices

Wally world when it's in stock...
Federal 223 100box $34
Federal 9mm 100box $21
WWB 9mm 100box $24
Rem 22lr golden bullets 525box $24
CCI mini mags 100box $7
Independence 5.56 20box $8

I'm not sure any other retailers can beat walmart pricing.

Cabelas has been reasonable
9mm 50box $15
CCI mini mags 100 box $9
PMC 223 20box $9
American Eagle 223 50 box $25

 

[Mike McLellan]

At $1.06 a round for .32-20s, I can't afford to shoot cheap beer cans down by the riverbank. I have to shoot imported beer cans. Do you have any idea what that costs?!

 

[bobermo]

At $1.06 a round for .32-20s, I can't afford to shoot cheap beer cans down by the riverbank. I have to shoot imported beer cans. Do you have any idea what that costs?!

Cheaper than PBR and Milwaukee's Best?

 

[murphydog]

What, you actually have ammo to buy? Haven't seen a single round of .22 LR available locally in 6 months. Buy and enjoy .

 

[HeyJoe]

Friday was a bad day. WWB 100 round box of 45ACP has jumped to 55 cents a round including tax.

9mm has jumped to 48 cents a round with tax.

Federal 5.56 ball is 65 cents a round with tax.

13% increases on Remington and Federal 22lr and 20% on CCI.

I don't know about .40 cal as its as rare as hens teeth around here and the same for 10mm.

Remington 38 special is 41 cents a round.

Blazer Aluminum 44 special is 87 cents a round including tax.


I can no longer afford to shoot at these prices. Oh well the whiners and crybabies must be happy.

its not the ammo "whiners and crybabies" that raised the going price. its the hoarders and gougers who did that. you make no sense.

 

[shouldazagged]

What, you actually have ammo to buy? Haven't seen a single round of .22 LR available locally in 6 months. Buy and enjoy .

I can't remember the last time I saw any .38 Special in any loading. Anywhere.

I really don't consider myself a "crybaby". I have snap caps.

 

[moxie]

Huh? What?

 

[ladyT]

What store was this at?

This was at Academy. The Local gun shops are even higher on their ammo prices.

 

[ladyT]

its not the ammo "whiners and crybabies" that raised the going price. its the hoarders and gougers who did that. you make no sense.

Its the whiners and crybabies who were calling for higher ammo prices to curb the shortage and now they are getting their wish. Higher prices. You are going to see more ammo on the shelf but no one will be buying it due to cost. That leads to a crash in prices and a loss in ammo manufactures who cannot make their required ROI. This will take us back to a shortage again with even higher prices.

 

[BlueOvalBandit]

It's supply and demand. It would happen whether people cried or not because everyone is buying ammo like its going out of style. Its the same as any other commodity, the more people buy the high the price goes.

What's sad is we do this to ourselves and are too stupid to learn from history. Have prices ever returned to pre 2008? No. What the gun grabbers fail to do we succeed by panicking, a couple more elections/shootings and we'll price ammo out of average joes hands.

 

[chipking]

Really? The majority of the posts I have seen here and on other forums said just the opposite from your comment. Basically "If it is too high DON'T buy it and the price will come down". Yours is the only post I have read anywhere where someone supposedly advocated raising the price to increase availability.
I just purchased 6 boxes of 9mm at WalMart for $10.37 a box of 50. Same price as pre mass hysteria(or mass stupidity whichever you prefer) so I guess they didn't get the memo.
Chip King

 

[rburg]

This is all nonsense. There is ammo out there and its for sale. If you want ammo and want to shoot, you will have to pay the prices. If you refuse, then you've made the decision not to shoot. Yes, 22 lr is up around $.10 a shot. I've sold some at that price and I've bought some at that.

I've even paid $300 for 3 boxes of .357 ammo. Sure, it was prewar and it was worth what I paid (at least to me.) And over the last 2 months I've also bought a box of 50 .32 Short Colt for $35 and the remains of a box of 32 Long Colt for $10. If you only own one gun and its a caliber that is in great demand, you'll pay the price the sellers demand. Or maybe you'll learn to reload like the rest of us. I'm not sure ammo is unreasonable in price. Maybe its just been cheap for the last couple of decades and is finally adjusting itself to current reality.

Prices are unstable in a lot of things. Over the last month I paid over $4 a gallon for fuel. But today coming home from Louisville, I stopped in a nice little town, Carrollton. I paid $3.01.9 a gallon! Pretty cool, I liked it. But if my tank had been empty I would have paid $4 for a total over $60.

 

[W.E.G.]

Ammo is HEAVY and BULKY.

The hoarders will eventually give up, and there will be plenty for everybody who has room to store it.

I mostly prefer to roll my own.

 

[2lo8s]

Ammo is HEAVY and BULKY.

The hoarders will eventually give up, and there will be plenty for everybody who has room to store it.

I mostly prefer to roll my own.

Woud that be a picture of a reloading "Crybaby"?

 

[slickracer]

Woud that be a picture of a reloading "Crybaby"?

That's the start of a fine young man.

 

[tlay]

I Believe that if people want to bitch and cry over anything that is our right. It is also the right of someone who does not agree with them to not read it. It does no one any good to call people names because they want to express their feelings. If we continue down this road it won't be too hard for the anti's to beat us. Divide and conquer.