Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they have never seen such shortages.Firearm owners noted this months ago and the shortage is already ending. This is the ammo shelves at the Rural King in Champaign, Il.
Like I said. Beautiful sight.
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106 miles to find ammo on the shelves aplenty...... in the words of the great sage "Eric Cartman",
Damnit!!!!
No kidding. I finally found some .22 ammo for $18 a brick.
Cheaper Than Dirt has Golden Sabers for $2 per round. Dirt must have gone up in price, substantially.
Crap on a cruth. 'Round these parts, Wal-Marts and gun stores alike are bone fricking dry. I am still having to resort to Georgia Arms and the rest of those good, online, backorderable guys.
Perhaps my eyes deceive me, but that appears to be all (or essentially all) shotgun ammo.
Even in the bleakest days of the ammo shortage, the local gun/sporting goods stores have had pallets of shotgun ammo, particularly "sporting" loads like birdshot. The local Sportsman's Warehouse has had, by area and volume, more shotgun ammo for sale than guns.
As far as I've been able to tell, shotgun ammo and hunting ammo for rifles have been widely available for their regular (or slightly higher) prices.
However, pretty much any "non-hunting" caliber (e.g. 9mm, .40, .45, .223/5.56mm, etc.) and non-hunting loads (e.g. .308 FMJ, .30-06 FMJ, etc.) has been bone-dry for months at the big retailers, which sucks for "shooters" as opposed to "hunters".
Fortunately, my local shop has maintained a rather substantial reserve of common "shooter" ammo, like Prvi Partizan M193 and .308, Federal XM193, etc. Slight retail markup, but not horrible. Sure beats waiting around for the online vendors to get stuff in stock.
Even that much rifle and pistol ammo hasn't been seen around here lately.
The crunch may be easing, but we're still having difficulty keeping certain calibers of ammunition in stock. What we've seen is that common calibers such as .45ACP, 9mm, .223/5.56 at shotgun shells are starting to come in, but we're still short on most everything else.
From what we can tell, certain areas with less demand are getting ammunition back on the shelves. Since we sell across the nation, we haven't seen the same level of demand decrease. It's better, yes, but it will be some time before supplies get back to pr-election levels.
arizonarifleman- Prvi Partizan will be less available after the BOOM at the plant. but feel free to email me you local haunt and help a brother out:) Queen creek is bone dry.
Nice to see Cheaper than Dirt reading and commenting. Talk about keeping "in touch" with your customer base.
The Chinese invented gunpowder over a thousand years ago, but our federal government won't let us buy ammo from them. The recent ammo shortage shows that we need a greater diversity of ammo suppliers and less expensive ones too. American shooters need more freedom to choose. Lift the ban!
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