Is ammo more available in your area/ prices stabilized or dropping?

Carl the Floor Walker said:
I wonder if all the hundreds of thousands of New Gun owners are becoming "Price conditioned" when they see these "Sale" signs of Ammo which is only 3 times the Pricing of last march as opposed to the standard 5 times the cost?
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Sounds like suckers ripe for the picking from places like Cheaper than Dirt :)
 
Carl the Floor Walker: A WSJ editorial this week mentioned 8 Million new gun owners.

The writer elaborated on various factors (not just women, ethnic groups), and stated that Schumer doesn’t have the votes for any anti-gun legislation he would like to pass.

This subject seemed a bit unusual for the Wall Street Journal.
 
Ammo is still difficult to find in N.C. and many of the gun shops are price gouging unmercifully. Academy still has the best prices and my local store is getting larger deliveries three times a week than before. I also found out today that Dicks is going to also stop selling guns and ammo once their inventory has run down.
 
I'm actually disgusted by what I saw at one of my local spots in the Berkshires. They were selling ammo in baggies. .45 acp for $35 for half a box. They were opening up boxes and cutting them in half for more than 2x the price. I saw in their gun case j frame snubs for $699-799! Shield 45 for 549! The sales clerk asked if I needed anything and I just left without saying a word. I know times are tough but this is highway robbery and they know people have stimulus $$. I will never shop there again. That leaves only 2 stores left in my immediate area that I can purchase from. I will check them tomorrow....
 
Since dicks and wallly no longer sell guns or ammo in my city, that only leaves the local gun shops and they either have nothing or rip you off completely.... No thanx. I used to love to shoot but lately my guns just sit idle....I do have a nice supply on hand but I won't shoot it until things change. If they change...
 
Tried to pick up some .35 Rem Leverevolution ammo. My local shop wanted $50/box. Prices haven't stabilized.
 
L&M in Hayward has had a steady trickling supply of 9mm, .22 LR, and shotgun ammo, the 9mm I've seen was all Winchester, Aguila, and CCI aluminum cased 115 gr ball in boxes of fifty ranging from $12.99 for the CCI to $20.99 for the Winchester whilst the same exact stuff from certified price gougers such as SGammo, CTD, and ATG would easily set you back $60.00 a box of same plus ludicrous shipping costs! I used to buy tens of thousands of rounds from the likes of SG and ATG, never again! L&M usually has shelves filled with 9mm twice each month with any of the above, though of course it swiftly runs out, nonetheless, they are true Americans to the marrow.
 
About 19,000 cities in the Continental US. It seems common now for someone to report that one Place, one LGS etc, in one City or Town that they found a deal and now believe prices are coming down or stabilizing or the market is becoming normal. Or maybe what is going on now is the NEW normal for years to come.
 
Went to a gun show in NE TN this A/M, lots of ammo available. Good news; it seems to be coming out of the woodwork BAD news prices being "asked" is still high but declining. Hoarders may be begining to question thier long term wisdom of contrived scaricity. Guns availabilty was moderate but prices are still at least 25% ABOVE pre-Covid. Didn't buy anything except a hot dog.
 
The local BiMart had Winchester .223 ammo the other day, a box of 20 for 12 bucks. It's the first ammo I've seen in months and I was lucky to be at the store while they still had some. The limit was 2 but I only bought one...

Tony
 
Las Vegas not well supplied and triple expensive. Please show me I'm wrong!! I'd love 22lr, 380 fmj and 9mm!

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I stopped at Scheels today on a lark just to see if there was any ammo. I hadn’t purchased ammo in 6 months so figured things might’ve eased up on the supply side. Nope. Shelves were practically bare. Usually scheels has a decent assortment of hunting rounds and they barely had any of that. I think they mostly had 12 and 20 ga shotgun rounds but that was about it. Of course, it’s Sunday so I shouldn’t be too surprised. I’m assuming they get ammo deliveries several times a week so perhaps a weekday might yield better results
 
Shelves are pretty bare in central Iowa, and I just drove 3200 miles to Texas and back, didn't stop at a lot of stores, but no one had anything, unless you wanted some odd Weatherby or Lapua rounds. I'm watching for powder, 308/ 30-06 friendly, and my LGS gets a few cans trickling in every week, mostly shotgun powders, but I did pick up a pound of Accurate 2700 for msrp.
 
The places I have found ammo at a decent price is CAL Ranch, and Sportsman's Warehouse. They never have much and limit you to a box of ammo but the prices are good. I picked up a box of 45 acp at Sportsman last week, 100 rounds 230gr ball. It was $57. and some pennies. Not the best price but not gouging.
 
Well, if Gunbroker is an indicator, the panic buying/hoarding/gouging is waning. Just got 100 20g Truball slugs shipped for about $40 under retail. Some things are higher still, but prices are coming down. Seeing ammo (1 or 2 box limits) in the local shops as well. Some are offering 100 rounds for purchase with a compatible firearm.
 
After yesterday's events, I would imagine the hoarders are going to be out in force. I've got a range session this upcoming weekend, I'll report back what I see at my LGS.
 
Went to Local LGS with largest ammo supply yesterday Huge Sale of 9mm cheap range ammo. Now only $899 per case. (1000 rds)

WAIT There's MORE!
You get one their store logo back packs for FREE!
 
I was in a pawn shop in Bullhead City a couple days ago and they had a lot of ammo. I asked about their 9mm and the clerk told me it was $36 sumtin per box of fifty with a limit of eight boxes per person.
 
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