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Ammo Shortage May Last Until 2021

Went to a sporting good store with my brother to get his golden boy his girlfriend bought him for his birthday. One box of 22lr left no 9mm, 45 acp and such only some 40 cal and a couple boxes of 10mm. I bought two boxes of 10mm. The clerk said a guy bought a 40 cal pistol the day before just because that was the only ammo he could get.
 
KillerFord1977 said:
9mm for 1000 was $169 all day long pre covid. I shot 2000 a month of 9mm. $300 is stupid money. I’ll wait to shoot my last 4000 until i can get it again sub $200
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I agree not a great price just wanted to let everyone know some 9mm was available. The 5.56 I bought ended up being .70 a round also not a great price but didn’t want to miss the opportunity to pick some up. My next purchase will be some .308
 
Due to ammo constraints, I am honestly thinking of finally picking up a laser dry fire practice system with 9mm and .380acp cartridges for it, so I can sit here and "plink" in the house. I've looked at several. Not sure how else to keep trigger discipline up when you can't get the ammo to keep up a normal amount of practice.

I am also in a situation where my wife has cancer and is going through chemo, and has a compromised immune system, and my youngest daughter, who is at the house a lot, is pregnant. So I've been somewhat concerned about visiting any of the local indoor ranges, even wearing an N95 mask, as I don't want run any more risk than I have to, and bring home any COVID virus to them. There are a few outdoor ranges, but they are likely crowded for the same reasons.

I miss working for a guy who owned 300 acres about a mile from my house, where I had a key to his gate and could go down to his dove hunting fields and setup my own targets and shoot all I wanted, outside of dove hunting days.
 
Not sure what your homestead is like, but I'm on 4 acres in Maryland and practice in my yard (well...not in the front yard, but back in the woods lol) all the time. Neighbors will come join me sometimes, and sometimes I'm just out there on my own for an hour or so, but it's a nice way to do it. I just have an 8" healing plate target, and do my usual 10 yard drills with that, or with some old cardboard boxes with hand-drawn silhouettes on them.
 
Peglegjoe said:
Not sure what your homestead is like, but I'm on 4 acres in Maryland and practice in my yard (well...not in the front yard, but back in the woods lol) all the time. Neighbors will come join me sometimes, and sometimes I'm just out there on my own for an hour or so, but it's a nice way to do it. I just have an 8" healing plate target, and do my usual 10 yard drills with that, or with some old cardboard boxes with hand-drawn silhouettes on them.
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When I lived in the county, I only had a bit over an acre, and neighbors behind me, so it was not a good place to shoot, even though technically it could have been done. In the city limits where I live now, you cannot discharge a firearm except in a designated indoor or outdoor range.
 
southtex said:
January 2020 the 124gr reman HP I shoot were .20per round now .64 and hardly in stock.
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I've not found any 124 gr at any price for more than a month and a half where I am. Well, I have found a few rnd nose lead bullets of 124 gr, but I hate shooting them in my new Hellcat. I can find 115 gr in FMJ and and a few JHP's, but they're all reloads, and still about 3 times the cost of what they were a couple months ago.

I'm beginning to think like jfmorris and maybe will get a dry fire laser just to keep active till rnds come down in price some.
 
I work at Liberty Ammunition located in Bradenton, Florida. I do quality control work there. We've been working 6 days a week for months trying to keep up with demand. Quality primers are scarce but we have our sources. Civil defense rounds not range ammo. Check out @ Libertyammo.com. Hold on to your defense ammunition for now and dust off your. 22s. Still lots of that around.
 
Simon said:
I work at Liberty Ammunition located in Bradenton, Florida. I do quality control work there. We've been working 6 days a week for months trying to keep up with demand. Quality primers are scarce but we have our sources. Civil defense rounds not range ammo. Check out @ Libertyammo.com. Hold on to your defense ammunition for now and dust off your. 22s. Still lots of that around.
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And, depending upon how you look at it, it's not really an ammo shortage but ammo Hoarding!
 
Simon said:
And, depending upon how you look at it, it's not really an ammo shortage but ammo Hoarding!
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Hoarding is to be expected. Everyone wants Ammo for what everyone is expecting to happen but
probably/ hopefully won’t.
The other side of this is with all the guns sold in the last 8 months they need ammunition otherwise they are paperweights.
 
When I do see some 9mm, 12 ga. buck & .223/5.56 I'm passing on it so others can get it, but am rounding out my factory match & hunting ammo where there's a need for some extra.
 
9MM was averaging $.50 per round on 115gr FMJ at the big ammo dealers setup at the last few local shows here in FL. One dealer yesterday had a pallet of 1000 round cases and it was 1/2 gone by noon. Most of our LGS' have bare ammo shelves and very low stock on handguns and long guns. Bass/Cabelas and the like have nothing either.
 
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