Some shopping observations

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Yeah, I'm in about the same boat. Picked up ammo here and there over the last few years whenever I saw it on sale so I have a few hundred rounds for just about every caliber save the hunting rifles and those calibers rarely are affected by ammo runs/I don't shoot them that much to save the barrels.

Just glad I picked up the little woman an AR of her own a few months back when we saw them on sale. She loves it and it was a reasonable price. Now I'd be concerned whether or not she could get it, much less at that price, for a long time to come.
 
Nothing but a few .40, .45acp and some centerfire rifle rounds at any of the 4 local wally worlds... Got a $50.00 BassPro gift card I intended to buy a couple new Dexter-Russel knives for the kitchen but if they have any ammo I need, at a price I like, I may just put that with the cash I set aside for ammo and buy more...

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Been to a Cabelas and Gander Mtn and they were both out of semi auto rifles except for a few in .22lr (mostly marlin 795s and mossberg 702s). As for ammo they were both out of .223 and most .22lr and there were a few boxes of 9mm around. All hunting calibers were still around along with shotgun shells.

This panic really stinks when your in the market for a .22 rifle. I am hoping this panic will be over soon.
 
Local Academy is full of 40/45. 9/22/223 wiped out. Do have a spam can of 9mm Tula though. Just recently came to terms with shooting Monarch. Don't think I can deal with Tula yet.
 
No idea.

For a couple of months I've been looking at getting a LC9, Shield or similar small 9mm for carry. Friday I more or less talked myself into getting one as a late Christmas present to myself and headed off to the LGS. Pulled up to find the parking lot totally full with 4-5 cars parked in the grass. Forget that madness. Turned around and came home.
 
In the past week or so, I've been to an LGS, an Academy, and a gun show.

LGS -- Went here a couple of days before Christmas. About a case of .223 on the shelf, at $14.95/box of 20. A decent supply of 9mm, .40, .45. still on the shelves. LGS had 2x-3x as many customers as I have ever seen in there.

Academy -- Went there Saturday, 29 December 2012. No .223 at all. Still a fair amount of premium rifle ammo in 7mm, .243, .30-06, .308, etc.

Gun show -- Also went Saturday, twice. I first went out after an early lunch, arriving noon-ish. Plenty of 9mm & .40 around. Brass-cased 230 gr .45 acp, best price = $22.95/box of 50. When I returned that afternoon (admission was good for all day), it had gone up to $25.99/box of 50. Same brand, same vendor. You could see where new price stickers had been put over the old ones. A fair amount of rifle ammo around, as well as more odd-ball shotgun ammo than I've seen in a long time. 16 ga, 28 ga, things like that. I saw one lone case of 5.56 NATO for sale, at the low, low price of $794/case of 1000! :eek: That dealer said that he'd sold 10K rounds of .223 by 9 a.m. that day. By the time I really priced .223 in the afternoon, it was all running $20/box of 20. Stripped AR lowers going for $400-500 apiece. EBR prices looked very high (I say "looked" because I'm not really up to speed on various EBR prices), but other new gun prices looked, well slightly inflated.
 
I had nothing better to do so I wandered around to six WalMart Superstores in South Denver Metro on Saturday night late. Just to see what was around...

None had 22LR in anything but shot. None had any 9mm. One had WWB .45 ACP (4 boxes of 100 rounds) for $29. (Yeah I bought two just 'cause. Ha.) Another guy was standing there and needed 45 ACP. I asked what he needed since I'm ok and was just adding to the storage for range shooting, and he only needed a box so we both got what we wanted and 1 box left at 10PM.

On Sunday was early for a dinner appt and near one of the six stores again. Was curious, so looked again while grabbing an iced tea from McD's inside... Ten boxes of PPU 9mm. I haven't run that stuff from Serbia but I was there and it was and two boxes of it jumped in my cart. Silly stuff. It apparently needed a home. ;)

Today, Sportsman's Warehouse had restocked WWB in everything but 9mm. So they're starting to restock some.

Gander Mtn had Blazer Brass 9mm in 350 round bulk pack for $99. 45 ACP 200 rounds for $99. And piles of .40 of all varieties. Some WWB in everything but light 9MM. Had some WWB 9mm NATO however at $39. Wow. (Thought that was interesting.)

So the big box stores are restocking but riding the wave on price for ammo. Wheee!

Didn't bother looking at Dick's after hearing they're living up to their name and cancelled AR orders, and pulled them permanently. Won't be going in there ever again. Bye Dicks. (Note I left off the apostrophe. Heh.)

None had rifles worth messing with. SW and Gander had restocked some semi-auto handguns. Counters were jammed at both with people so I didn't look hard. Quite a zoo.

Online Saturday night I found WWB for plinking at one LGS out of state that was still at pre-insanity pricing for the 500 round boxes of 45 ACP 230g and 9mm 115g, and even with outrageous FedEx Ground shipping they were still reasonable -- so I bought me and wifey some plinking ammo for the range, since we both have a class we signed up for a while back, coming up soon. Was surprised it wasn't a ruse and got tracking numbers for FedEx this morning first thing. Cool.

Both of us still waiting on Colorado "Insta"Check on our new toys. My paperwork was in last Wednesday night, hers Thursday night. With the holiday I'm guessing Thursday on mine. We'll see.
 
Stopped by one LGS today that I had not been to in a couple of weeks. Several ARs on the shelf for insane prices. Some were just built up using parts out of the parts bin in the store. Plus, they are buying used ARs to resell for a huge profit. Lots of muliple handgun purchases going on. One guy was buying four. Stripped lowers gong for $350.:eek:

The owner of the store is a loud mouth, racist that also tends to make fun of women every chance he gets. His clientele is much the same unfortunately. I really wanted to buy a S&W 17-2 today that was there, but I just can't seem to get past the other stuff.
 
Glocks are now 600-650 here in central Florida.

Sig P250 that was 850 two weeks ago (same Sig) is now a cool grand.

Ammo has gone up 5-10 bucks a box and 45 ACP is un-possible to find.
 
OK, there seemsto be sporadic but growing signs that pistol mag insanity is hitting GB. Example: a pair of S&W 59-series 15rd mags just sold for.... $98!?!

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=322114901

Great googly moogly! 5 years ago, a local gun show vendor was selling boxes full of admittedly somewhat beat-up LE surplus 59-series mags for $15/ea! 3 months ago, it would have been unusual for these to exceed $25-$30/ea.
 
Sounds like they got a deal if a high cap ban goes through. $60 each for civilian high cap pistol mags was pretty common during the last ban.
 
Our local Walmart is out of almost everything. Other gun stores seem to have increased their prices on what little is remaining. Have not looked at local reloading supplies.
 
I went out to 3 different stores today to see the situation for myself. No AR's or AK's anywhere. Gun racks all half empty or more. One store's sizable handgun display case was only about 25% full. Ammo shelves were even more barren, with mainly expensive hunting rounds left. No small rifle or small pistol primers anywhere, large rifle and large pistol primers still available. Some powder available.

Quite sad to see. I think I'm going to have to put competitions on hold until ammo and components are more available, and end up shooting mainly .22lr for the next 2-3 months.
 
Since I'm back in SA for a week I decided to check out the bass pro, same as Glenn noticed, no EBRs, their wall rack was prolly 40% empty, tons of black powder guns in their section. Shotguns and bolts were still readily available, to me the ammo shelves didn't look as bad as those same shelves looked 4 years ago, now there is still ammo of various calibers, 4 years ago it reminded me of what the water shelves look like at a grocery store when a hurricane is on the horizon.
 
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