The "Where is everything?" thread -- guns, ammo, primers, powder, etc.

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Don't blame Walmart. They are still selling what ammo they can get for normal, or under, retail prices. The guys who line up at 5 a.m. and buy out the entire inventory are the ones to blame.
Locally, WM is still selling bulk boxes for about $17.00. Somebody is buying them up and reselling through classified ads for $75.00. He used to charge $50.00, then $65.00 and now $75.00. He is selling them or he wouldn't keep it up and keep raising prices.
 
I got a bucket of 1400 at a gun show yesterday for $140. Other than that I can rarely find it in stores and when I do it is $10 for a box of 50.
 
The days of $7.99 bricks are gone and never coming back. $.05/round - which is $25/brick - is most likely the new price - so IF you can find them for close to that, and you need some, you better grab them before someone else does
 
The days of $7.99 bricks are gone and never coming back. $.05/round - which is $25/brick - is most likely the new price - so IF you can find them for close to that, and you need some, you better grab them before someone else does
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I do my "grabbing" when the grabbing is good. Buying in bulk requires a larger one-time investment, but it saves a lot over bit-and-piece purchases during the same period of time the bulk purchase will cover.

My last real .22 LR purchase was in 2011. Even then, people were "happy" to be paying $20 / brick or $17 / bulk pack, but I picked up semi-premium ammo for about $130 / case.

Those cases of semi-premium and bricks of premium .22 LR stacked up in the gun room sure do look pretty, when I see them after reading about everyone that failed to plan ahead and hasn't been able to get any for the last 8+ months.

I feel bad for people that are just getting into firearms, and can't get ammo. But, I have no sympathy for experienced gun owners that don't keep a reasonable supply of ammunition on hand.
...It's like living in Florida, during hurricane season, and never filling your car's fuel tank above 1/4 tank You're just asking to be caught without the most precious commodity required to operate the vehicle/firearm. :rolleyes:
 
Bricks Of .22LR Ammo

I was at WM the other day and I was able to buy three boxes of Federal Auto Match 325 rounds each.Three boxes cost me about 54.00 plus tax. I hope I did not pay too much! This situation is really hacks me off and then some! Cliff
 
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Our LGS is or was selling them for $100. I dd see boxes of bulk Remington Golden Bullets going for $75 per at the last gun show...and they weren't selling.
 
Primers in IL

I was at the Bass Pro in Bolingbrook, IL today and they had quite a stock of primers in. Just a heads up to those in the area looking for some primers!
 
A lady we know was telling us the other day about her son. He works at a large sporting goods chain store. When shipments of ammo or reloading components come in, an employee of the store buys the entire lot. Be a good bet that dude is selling the stuff online or at gun shows for an outrageous profit. Since this is "hearsay" it ain't ethical in my opinion to name the retail chain.:mad:
 
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I was at WM the other day and I was able to buy three boxes of Federal Auto Match 325 rounds each.Three boxes cost me about 54.00 plus tax. I hope I did not pay too much! This situation is really hacks me off and then some! Cliff
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That's a pretty good price... they go for $18.97 at our WM and you can only buy one box... and 30 boxes disappeared in just part of a day.
 
Don't blame Walmart. They are still selling what ammo they can get for normal, or under, retail prices. The guys who line up at 5 a.m. and buy out the entire inventory are the ones to blame.
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I don't like those guys but I don't blame them. If you don't have ammunition you need it is because you didn't buy it the day before Sandy Hook, or the week, month, or year before Sandy Hook.

Normally, if ammunition trickled into the store at the same rate it is coming in now they would have to build a larger store just to hold the accumulation. Normally, that ammunition just sits on the shelf so they wouldn't want it at even the rate they get it now, over time.

Walmart hasn't raised their prices on ammo at all. Bulk packs are still in the $20-$25 range depending on which brand. My local stores get 2 shipments a week that include about a case each of all the popular calibers. .22lr is sold out within a few hours, and 9mm/.223 by the end of the day. .40/.45 stick around for at least a few days.
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Boy, I sure haven't seen that where I am. One store holds some 5.56 for a few days before running out but I've only seen anything on the shelf other than a couple of times when I just happened to walk by as the delivery came in. One of those times I only managed to get anything ahead of the long line waiting because I was in the middle of a gun purchase and had the undivided attention of the clerk and store manager.

One thing I haven't seen at all has been any .22LR. I remember in the 2009 panic I couldn't find a box of .380 for my wife's gun for the life of me - or her. Even when the panic ended and before Sandy Hook I rarely saw .380 on the shelves.

Through it all, though, I have managed to find enough for a few trips to the range so I'm not in a panic.
 
Bought two 100 rd boxes of CCI Mini Mag .22LR at my local Academy yesterday for $7.49 each. They had about 100 boxes at the customer service counter.

They now only have limits on .22LR and 9mm ammo (2 boxes per customer). They had plenty of all the ammo that's been hard to find....even had an abundance of primers. Had about 30 boxes of .22 mag on the shelf, and that's the first time that I've seen some in store all year.....I didn't need it so I didn't buy any, even though the urge was there! :)
 
Finally found some 22lr at one of the LGS's I visit. Went to pick up my son but stopped in at the LGS to try my luck. As I was browsing the ammo section one of the employees asked me if I needed any help and I said I was just looking for 22LR ammo. He told me they had some Winchester hollow points and some CCI target ammo. I picked up two 100 packs of the CCI ammo for $9.99 each. He told me they got a delivery of some 20 100 packs today and they only had the few left when I came in. Guess I lucked out for a change cuz the other stores have been bone dry
 
Bought 500 CCI .22 rounds for $49.90 today. Gander limits buying to 10 boxes per customer, and they didn't have anything bigger than 50 round boxes.

The guy at checkout told me their prices had never gone up, but I don't believe him.
 
Gouger Mountain is notorius for having higher prices then anyone else, so there might be some truth in his statement.

But $50/500rds:eek: Man I miss the days of $14/525rds. Guess I'll keep witing for prices to return to normal.:rolleyes:
 
The online ammo sites are ripoffs. Paying 16 plus dollars for shipping kills the deal. It jacks the price up way to high for the purchase.
 
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