What ammo has been most available?

[Cal44]

Back before the current ammo "crisis" conventional wisdom was to buy a gun that used the most commonly available ammo.

Then you would always be able to find some where ever you went.

So buy, 9mm, 357 Magnum, 44 Magnum, .223, 30-30. 308, 380 guns etc.

Well that turned out wrong. Many of those have been sold out for months at my LGS's and on-line suppliers.

Instead I find things like 454 Casull, 45 Schofield available.

In my local area the rounds that have remained the most available have been:

Handgun: 40 S&W

Rifle: 270 Winchester

I'm wondering what others are seeing and if there is a pattern in what ammo survived the slump best.

 

[ladyT]

The most common ammo I've seen has been 308,7.62x39 and 22lr. Granted there hasn't been enough 22lr to meet the demand but it has been the most common caliber my local Academy store gets. The rarest of calibers has been 44mag/special, 38 special,10mm, 45acp and 9mm. The rarest of the rare has been 40s&w and 45LC. Only one case of 500 in 45LC has been recieved by my local Academy since January. I got 3 boxes @ 80 cents a round. More than I wanted to pay but it was the first 45LC I had seen in awhile.

 

[Grimjaws]

Ammo

In Western New York it has been 40 and 9mm. Most of it is Tula or some other off brand. I also see 270 plus 30-06 and 308 at Dicks and Gander. Walmart is hit or miss but yesterday they had a bunch of 9mm, 40, 45, 38, 380 and even .22.

I picked up 100 rounds of .22 (50 round boxes) limit one - hooray for my wife shopping with me.

They could have avoided the whole fiasco if folks would have said 3 box limit or 1 box limit per ammo type.

 

[Arik]

Most consistently for SE Pa has been 40 followed by 38/357 and 45 in 3rd place. I have forgotten what 9mm looks like

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[ccrider61]

i'm seeing 30-06 ,270, 40S&W. i actually sold my 308 and 223 rifles because i couldn't find any ammo for them, unless it was Tula.I'm now shooting 30-06 and 41 magnum, no limit on 41 mag.People are waiting over an hour in line to buy 1 box of Tula 9mm. I refuse to get caught up in that.Maybe the obscure ammo types are the way to go?

 

[slfree]

I started shooting 9mm a few years ago when .45 went thru the roof. I like 9mm at the range, and you could get it cheap and in unending supply. I've guessed wrong before, probably will again.
At the height of the hoarding, 243 Winchester seemed to be what collected dust on the empty shelf. I briefly considered buying a rifle, just so I could buy ammo when I wanted it.

 

[jfp357]

Locally (western mass) the 22lr are back. One store has even stopped the limit per customer.

 

[counting cou]

7mm magnum and 30-06 at walmart and assortment of scatter gun shells.....Academy had most rifle catridges .....handgun and 5.56 was told they both put out at night whatever hey are shipped and the line begins in the early morning...Before I do that I will just sit on what I have for an emergency and hope things improve while I still able to enjoy shooting!

 

[amazingflapjack]

It was all available at our house-we load.

 

[brucev]

Nothing at all has been available at local stores. However, when I bought my 15-22, one of my church members told me of a small gun shop about 30 miles away in a small town. I drove over there and he had (at the time) everything... and I do mean everything. Nowadays, he still has just about any handgun or rifle round. He has no .22 LR. He has not raised his prices from what he normally charged prior to the panic. His price on .38 Special is $21/50 rds. with .45 ACP 230 gr. FMJ's running $22/50. I think his prices on other calibers are about the same.

 

[vipermd]

12 ga 8 shot

 

[Knuckledragger]

I must be lucky, in the last 6 weeks I've been able to buy

2000+ .22 LR
600 9MM FMJ
300 .40 S&W FMJ

Most has been purchased at local big box stores, with a normal slight mark up.

The only ammo I can't find at reasonable prices is .380

 

[walnutred]

327 mag and 7.62x54R seem the most common around here.

 

[the ringo kid]

Depends in my area. I have noticed that Ammo is still available as late as the afternoon hours at places like: WalMart and Academy Sports and Outdoors. At Academy--I managed to get 3 boxes of fifty Winchester "white box" 9MM--and today at WM--I scored 3 boxes of fifty Remington .22 cal--and these were priced respectively at: $21.00 per and $1.77 per.

 

[justintyme]

There's only a few shops in the area that carry .41 mag, but they always have it. Used to be my hardest gun to find ammo for now its my easiest.

.45 acp has probably been the easiest "popular' round to buy

 

[shouldazagged]

I've had no luck at all finding .38 Special, even 130gr. FMJ practice ammo. Certainly none of my preferred FBI load. More proof the J-frames are hot sellers, I suspect.

Insanity. I hope it subsides, but I expect prices will remain well above the pre-feeding-frenzy levels. For the same reason a dog licks certain portions of his anatomy.

 

[gdnagle]

Lots of 7mm and 30-30 here mostly 7mm though.

 

[rwsmith]

I was able to find....

Some .357 and a few boxes of 9mm frangibles.

I'm going to start shooting that 8.36 mm Stroganoff that's been in the back of the closet. Hardly anybody buys ammo for those.

 

[alwslate]

Shotgun shells. The sporting goods section of the big box store where
I grocery shop has a wide assortment of both lead and steel shot as
well as slugs and buckshot in 12, 20 and some 16 ga. Also they always
have a few boxes of 30-06 and 270 softpoint ammo in stock.

 

[Bamabred]

Pretty much everything is available now down here. It still sells out quickly at big box stores, but LGS have ammo. During the height of panic though the most common was

7mm, .17HMR, 22-250, and assorted shotgun shells