I stopped at a store I like on the way to my cabin and found it well stocked with 9mm, .40, .45, 10mm, .44, 30-30, and .45/70, along with the easy to find .308 and. 30-06. They only allowed two boxes of each but I'm sorted for a while! There will be plenty of range time coming up.
Ammunition luck
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Bassbob
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That’s cheap right now.
I think ammo and guns are trickling back into shops but the prices reflect the ‘crisis’. My local spot has cases of 9 mm hollowpoints, but selling for $50 per 50 rounds (reflects what they had to pay to acquire the ammo). They were also able to acquire lots of target .223. They’ve had no ammo for a few months so we were excited to see the shelves full again.
It’s out there but it ain’t cheap.
It’s out there but it ain’t cheap.
The few gun shop staff I've talked to lately have told me that they actually bid for the ammo that is available to them and that it's been kind of a grind lately with no signs of letting up anytime soon through I have been seeing more 5.56 and 9mm available in my area but that maybe a reflection of the current market price that turns off most customers from buying it.
Yup same here. I think a lot of folks who didn’t have any ammo a few months ago have already ‘bit the bullet’ so to speak and bought what they needed at ridiculous prices. So now that the ammo is turning up locally again, they can walk away from it if they don’t really need it. The folks who are buying guns today will probably buy the ammo on the shelf but those of us who bought ammo online two months ago can now be picky in terms of price. The timing is just weird but I’m glad the local shops are getting items again.
Fortunately I always keep at least few thousand rounds of .22lr, 9mm & 5.56 on hand at all times so there was no panic buying for me but I will still pickup more if I'm out and the price is right. I also have plenty of ammo in other caliber guns I have for pistols, rifles, & shotguns.
Thats a good plan. I haven’t owned a 9 mm in years, and all of the other guns I have are ‘non popular’ calibers so I didn’t have any problem finding the ammo I needed before or during this mess. My problem was that I bought my first AR two weeks ago so I was forced to try to find .223/5.56 during this ridiculousness.
As for the price being right, if that means pre-Covid/civil unrest/defund police prices, it might not be right until 2021.
Congrats on your AR purchase at least!
Thanks! I really like it so far.