[paradox]

Everything but shotgun ammo is hard to find around here. I really thought it would have let up by now but it hasn't really. Problem around here is the flea market vendors buy up everything and then double or triple the price of it at their booths. It has gotten so bad that many stores limit how much you can buy at one time now bt the vendors beat that by getting all their family members to buy as well.

We have this discussion a lot at my house. We know some of those people who have enough free time to be at the stores when it hits the shelves and then sell it at a profit. The ammo buyer in me is pretty irritated at them. But the free market lover in me reminds myself quite frequently that every store owner on the planet buys things at one price and sells it at a higher one. Does that mean I have multiple personalities?:stars:

 

[SteveD(TX)]

To the OP - I notice you're in the Dallas area. There is a gun show at least one per month somewhere in the area; there's a pretty good supply there with quite a few high volume ammo dealers competing with each other. Prices are mostly high but they are high everywhere. Last time I was in Academy (in Mesquite maybe a month ago) they had a pretty good selection too. If you're looking for cheap or even reasonable prices, good luck.

 

[Shrek]

I picked up a 50 round box each of .38, .357, .40, .45, .30-06 , .9mm and another 100 round box of .22s today spending less than $170. Prices are higher than they were in the 1990s but I would look really funny going to the shooting range with my Lone Ranger cap pistols even if I could find red roll caps for them :rotfl:

 

[hefty lefty]

The bottom line is that people are still buying like there is no tomorrow because they have a not wholly unjustified suspicion there may not be. I know some very wealthy people who complain. I told them, "Well, you knew this was going to happen. You should have built an ammo plant with all that money and by now you'd have paid it off running three shifts."

If there is no collapse, there will be a monster ammo glut in four or five years. And if there is we will have other fish to fry. That's why production has not expanded to slake the demand.

My family did the prepper thing (we called it survivalist) pretty hard during the Carter malaise era. So this is not my first rodeo and I figure it may and may not happen.

 

[Chuck R.]

I’m currently TDY down in Leesville, LA (at Ft. Polk) and while checking out a couple gun stores both had pretty decent selections of centerfire ammo, again zero .22LR.


I don’t know how you non-reloaders do it. For a while reloading components were in short supply, but now that’s coming back, and the prices are also returning to normal. Local shop has primers and powder in stock; they literally had 50,000 WIN SPs arrive last week. Today I ordered another 2000 9mm cast bullets and instead of the 4-5 week delay, they actually shipped today, so that’s also coming back on line. I normally shoot between 9-12000 rds of handgun a year (mostly 9mm & .45ACP), and there’s no way I could do it this year buying commercial due to both cost and availability.


I know that this stockpiling/hording craze will end sooner or later, people only have so much disposable income they’re willing to put aside for “what ifs”. I’m surprised it lasted this long, and I did get caught short on .22LR and SP primerss, it will not happen again.

Chuck

 

[Cabin Fever]

FWIW, I was to a gun auction last weekend and off-brand (Russian?) .22lr was selling for ~$40/brick.

 

[wildcat6]

We have this discussion a lot at my house. We know some of those people who have enough free time to be at the stores when it hits the shelves and then sell it at a profit. The ammo buyer in me is pretty irritated at them. But the free market lover in me reminds myself quite frequently that every store owner on the planet buys things at one price and sells it at a higher one. Does that mean I have multiple personalities?:stars:

Well, I can't answer that for you lol....But, it is very frustrating that they do this. As long as people keep buying from them they will continue to influence the local markets on ammo.

 

[Shrek]

I picked up a 500 count box of hollow point 22lr today for $27

 

[tarbe]

Just a little thread necromancy, to remind all of us that we should always be prepared as these sort of ordeals have a way of occuring in cycles...