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

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I took a managerial accounting class in college and can tell you that not investing any more in production capacity than is absolutely necessary to meet demand is a constant concern.
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Drove my teacher crazy in accounting 101 ( this was after they merged 101,102, and 103 to form two classes of 101 and 102) when people refered to credit in a debit context...lol.

For reloaders:
The bullet works has in stock 147Grn Plated 9mm, some 38, and 45acp also plated. Very reasonable with free shipping. I have shot 180 of the 1000 9mm I ordered and they work well.
http://www.thebulletworks.net/category-s/137.htm

They also have plenty of cast bullets in stock: http://www.thebulletworks.net/category-s/20.htm
 
Ammunition in regards to .22lr appears to by abysmal still. Was checking out Ammoseek.com and the cheapest that I could find for some CCI mini mags (100 rnds) was around $35-$40 bucks. Yeesh.
 
Well, it's still bad. After weeks of seeing bulk 5.56 ammo at Walmart, I finally decided I'd get some. Of course they're out. They sold the last box they had 5 minutes before I got to the counter. It just goes to show, if you want it and you see it, then buy it. It may not be there later. And thus continues the shortage.

I won't make the mistake of walking past ammo for a while.
 
22LR is showing up around here (Daytona) Dicks $39 500, $19 375 target.
Gander Mtn had 100 CCI mini mags $7.95.
Neither was a good deal but they did have it in stock.

Doug
 
It's not going to get back to normal for a long time. People are obsessed with buying way more ammo than need and I'm not playing that game. It'll be another year at least before things get back to normal unless there's another shooting and people flip out again.
 
I agree there are lots of people out there still buying everything they can find, this is adding to the shortage and the price. I was talking to one guy that said he has 27000 rounds of 22lr. Why would anyone need that many rounds ? Maybe he is scared he'll run out but that many rounds is ridiculous to me. I think all that people like him are doing is adding to the shortage and keeping the prices high.
 
At least they've ensured some form of job security for all the ammo manufacturers, they must be making an absolute killing right now.

Anyway, has anyone had any luck with finding .308 or .223 up here in the Ogden area in Utah?
 
I was talking to one guy that said he has 27000 rounds of 22lr. Why would anyone need that many rounds ?
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Because he wants them? Why do you care how many rounds anyone has of any thing. If you want more, it's available. If you don't want it badly enough to pay for it then you don't really want it, do you?
 
Remington & Winchester 22LR ammo Where is it?

Retailers and distributors are seeing and receiving small shipments of CCI and Federal 22LR ammo but nobody that I know of is seeing any from Winchester or Remington. Why is that the 2 leading suppliers of 22LR ammo are not making an appearance on dealers shelves and in distributors warehouses? I hate to suggest that a conspiracy between these 2 manufacturers exists in regards to supplying 22LR ammo to the market, but the absence of this ammo in the market place surely fosters such a belief. Why can Federal and CCI make a somewhat reasonable effort to make and ship 22LR ammo but Remington and Winchester can't?
 
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I was talking to one guy that said he has 27000 rounds of 22lr. Why would anyone need that many rounds ?

Because he wants them? Why do you care how many rounds anyone has of any thing. If you want more, it's available. If you don't want it badly enough to pay for it then you don't really want it, do you?
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Its more of an example of why there is a shortage - high demand.
 
I was talking to one guy that said he has 27000 rounds of 22lr. Why would anyone need that many rounds ?
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Need has nothing to do with anything.
This is still America and we still have most of our freedoms. If the government can start rationing ammo then it is pretty much all over as far as freedom is concerned.
 
Yes you're free to do so. You're also free to bottle your own urine if you want to. Both are going to elicit more than a few people to scratch their heads and ask "er...why?" Doesn't mean they can't.
 
Myself, my wife and our two sons go shooting 3-4 times a month on avg sometimes more. Our typical day shooting has us run through at minimum a thousand rounds of 22. I keep on hand no less than 10,000 rounds and we have shot nearly 35,000 rounds since January. 27,000 rounds on hand for us wouldn't be unreasonable. I'll add that we have not changed our routine because of the madness. We have only become more savvy at how we locate and acquire the ammo 90% of which has come from Walmart. Just because someone has or uses more than you would doesn't make them wrong.
 
I have found some .22lr in my area.

Last week at STL walmart wife saw some winchester super X 100 round. Guy let her buy 6 instead of 3 because he was tired of opening case. Need to send her more often.

Got a 325 box of federal auto match for $20? or so at a gun shop down in arcadia mo.

9mm still is the hardest for me to find.
 
Cabelas in MN had thier shelfs plump full of primers. CCI, Remington and Winchester were full with all types. Federal was there as well. It has been that way for a bit now so i hope all is getting better elsewhere as well.
 
Local Walmart had some 30-30 this weekend; first I've seen this year. THe only problem was, they couldn't find the key to the cabinet and I couldn't buy any.
 
I recently began trying to find ammo for my 38-55 winchester lever gun. I looked high and low. There's not a box of ammo to be had anywhere at any retail location I can find or online. I even went to a couple of gun shows here in VA. No dice. I had to resort to bidding for NOS stuff on gunbroker.com at 3-4X the price I last paid for plain Jane Winchester X3855 in a gun store (probably 10-15 years ago).

So....I bit the bullet and started picking up supplies to reload. Even that has become a pain in the rump. There's no bullets to be had in the usual retail locations or online so....I had to buy what I could find at inflated prices on the same auction site. Then I realize that yup...there's a significant shortage of almost every brand and type of smokeless powder. Back to the auction site to pick up some H4198 at what was probably 3-4X what it cost a few years ago. The same goes for primers.

At least the press and dies weren't too hard to find. Now I've got enough supplies to reload a few hundred rounds. That ought to keep me supplied for hunting for quite some time.

Sigh...
 
Reloading is the way to go and many of us that do aren't as frantic as those that don't.

That helps fuel the 22lr panic, can't reload those.

Hopefully this scarcity will get more people into reloading, some who reload will bitch at me there because they don't want to increase demand and prices.

Bernanke increases prices every day.
 
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