Stop buying ammo!!!

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Yep. Eventually, the folks who thought they'd flip all the ammo and EBRs will run out of cash and decide that they need cash more than they need umpteenthousand rounds of 22LR, or that AR, or whatever they hoped to flip. It'll happen even sooner for those folks who maxed out their credit cards buying during the panic. I don't begrudge them the desire to make a few extra bucks, cause I could have used a few extras myself, but . . . I'll be waiting. :cool:
 
Mike is exactly right. This is the ups and downs of a free market system. Ammo at reasonable prices is still around, you have to find it though. If someone wants to pay $75-100 for a brick of .22lr, more power to them, I'm not. I still have plenty. If I were out of ammo and finally had good weather to shoot, I'll be honest, I cannot tell you what I would pay. It would be worth more to me then, then it would with my shelves full of ammo... When I go out shooting, it is my "me time", so how much is "me time" worth? I suppose it varies to how deep someone's pockets are. A firearm without ammo is a collectable, I don't collect things. Some were caught unprepared, some just getting into shooting and some are just running out after months of "hard to find ammo".
 
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We have watched people pay outrageous amounts for "beanie babies, furby's and cabbage patch kids", while I always though they needed their head examined, it all boils down to " it is their money, they are free to do as they wish". Their decisions may cause a temporary up flux in the market, but given time it will settle. While I do not expect prices to ever be as low as pre-December, they will stabilize. They will be whatever the average customer is willing to pay.
 
Super Walmart, sporting goods dept...

I took a cell pic yesterday of a local Super Walmart shelf.
I passed it around to a few buds. The Super Walmart in a middle-class/upper middle class area had; 0 handgun rounds, approx 12-14 boxes total of 7mm rifle caliber, .410 shotshell(5/6 boxes), approx 4, yes just 4 boxes of 12ga shells & 2 boxes of Winchester 30/06 rifle rounds.
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The staff had a printed sign saying Walmart customers were limited by store policy to 3/three boxes of ammunition per day!

CF
 
I've got enough primers, powder, and bullets to keep shooting. Short of 22s but enough to get me through the summer matches, just not enough to do a lot of practice.

Just because I have "enough" don't mean I'll always have enough. So every time I see primers, or powder, that I use, I'm buying it.

I'm old, I might die before components come down to cheap prices. I don't want to die with money in the bank, so I'll buy what I can, when I can find it and keep shooting.

Sorry if I wont go along with the "stop buying" plan, but I bet I'm not the only one.

If we stop buying for a month, after that month is over we'll be right back to where we are now.
 
Don't blame me for the trouble. Since all this began, I've bought a total of four boxes of ammo. Three of those were today.

I had to stop by the automotive section of Walmart at 7:00 a.m. today. I had a few minutes to kill, so went by the ammo section. A line was forming so I thought I might as well kill my time in line. About ten guys total in line. No .45 and the first couple of guys got what little Federal Champion 9mm they brought out. I ended up with three boxes of Tula 9mm at $10.25 a box. I won't run it through my nice 1911s but I figure that's why I bought a couple of polymer pistols. :)

The clerk never bothered to stock it. He just opened the box and out it went.
 
I boycott GB and local guys who price gouge.

I am still able to find components that cost the same as the pre-panic prices. Other than that I buy in bulk to keep my costs down. If they have limits that is fine...I don't buy stores out of anything.
 
I stocked up on 9mm a year or so ago and have enough for the foreseeable future ... It's depressing to see empty shelves every time I go to Cabela's, but this too shall pass ... in the meantime, I got a really cool slingshot and am having a lot of fun with targets in my yard ... there's always a way to poke holes in paper ... and I don't have to wear earplugs ...
 
I posted the following in another recent thread. April was the 35th consecutive month of increase over increase of firearms sells. This April sells were over 27% higher than April 2012.

The above indicates to me as long as firearms are continuing to increase in sells, there is most likely going to be a continued increase in ammunition and firearms related items demand.

I buy most of my reloading supplies from Powder Valley, Precision Delta and Berry's. Precision's lead time is over 18 weeks for bullet head in most calibers, and their loaded ammuntion has a lead time of 6 months. Berry's is not even taking orders on most of their line of bullets. Powder Valley has been out of a vast majority of primers since January of this year. Their primer prices have already gone up by as much as two dollars per thousand since then without any stockage.

In my opinion, ammunition and/or supplies are not going to normalize until firearms sells drop. I doubt we will ever see regular retail prices go back to the 2011/2012 mark. :(
 
My stock is getting a little low, but I am not paying any inflated prices. I am just not going to pay a buck a round for 9mm FMJ; if that constitutes a boycott, so be it. I pick up stuff at normal prices when I can, and that includes showing up at WalMart at 7:00 AM on my days off sometimes. On one of those occasions, waiting for the ammo to arrive at the desk, I chatted with a guy who claimed to have a friend with 50K rounds of .22LR stockpiled. Ridiculous if true, but a few of those in a town would account for a shortage.
 
I did

I have not bought any ammo in the last five years with the exception of some 12 gauge, and a couple of bricks of CCI Green Tag.
Now handloading components a slightly different story, but I'm well stocked there too, for now.
 
This is too funny. Gun owners spoiling it for other gun owners and then complaining about it on a gun forum. News flash, the shortage isn't going to go away anytime soon. Those that missed out on ammo are going to come in and buy it up as it becomes available. It's been said before, gun owners are their own worst enemy
 
The hoarders, and dealers who buy it and sell at scalping prices would not abide by it.
So buy it if you see it, and want it.
Jerry
 
Whats ridiculous is the PMC ammo going for $69.95 for a pack of 50 on CTD. I paid $20 for the same amount. $17-20 is the normal amount depending on how big the mom n pop business are.
 
Getting better in NH. 3 Saturdays in a row, a LGS has had 9mm in stock, limit 2 boxes per customer.

Read: the LGS owners don't let the employees buy most every shipment for themselves and their friends, and then flip it on Gunbroker. Not mentioning any big box store names, but you know what I mean.

Blazer Brass, $11.99 for box of 50.

YMMV.
 
Haven't seen 22LR on a shelf since the first week of January. Just started my daughter shooting...who would have dreamed that 22LR would go missing...sorry, if I see it I'm buying it. She will shoot us out in 6 months.
 
The issue remains and will continue to remain the scalpers who are running out the low price local stores every day and selling through whatever means at double or triple prices. And as long as there is somebody weak minded enough and willing to pay their prices it will continue - at this point it has become a self fulfilling prophesy.

I know this because I went through the 08-09 panic and now this one working on the other side of the counter. My store regularly gets small hits of ammo about 5 days a week and we limit to one box of ammo per caliber per day. Almost every day we open to the same 10 customers waiting in line, drooling over the opportunity to get at something in bulk - especially 22 LR. It is not difficult to overhear them bragging about how much money they will make at the next gun show.

When they are done with their daily purchases there is rarely much left for the common man with a job who is not able to stand outside a store for 2 hours every day. Thus it is my opinion that these people have the market essentially cornered at this point. In 09 it took a huge influx of Russian and European made ammo to put a stop to the madness. As soon as the common man could walk in and find what he was looking for regularly the ridiculous gun show prices stopped in their tracks and things came back to normal.

To that end I try to influence every one I can to stop paying overpriced scalpers and to be patient - at this point it is all that will stop this.
 
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