Strange: tons of 9mm, 5.56/.223 at Academy - 2:30 pm.

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Today ....I was in the store to buy a first mouth guard, for Krav class, expecting the usual empty shelves for semi-auto chamberings. The store is 1/2 mile west of Wolfchase Mall, in Memphis/Bartlett TN.

And the ammo was "shipped today" according to gun staff (he said M-W-F). Naturally there was a 2-box / per person/ per day limit.
Though I've got plenty at home (storing most of the reserve), this was """"weird """" :scrutiny:

>> :D Maybe providing the context, plus the time of day will help more people relax (they have vaccines, very few riots....)<< Both 9mm and 5.56/.223 were in very non-descript white boxes with no large brand name at all. The 9 said "Training Ammo".

Tiny words on back of 9mm boxes state "CCI/Speer...Idaho.

There were some small boxes of .22LR still available, on the cart or the secondary shelf.
 
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Waveski: Because some people seem less worried about the future (vs. a year ago), with far less being shutdown..... maybe that's a factor in less demand. I don't know.
* > My only point was to share info about so much of this ammo, in a local store.<

FL-NC: 9mm: brass-cased, copper fmj. .
Approx. .40/rd.

I never looked at the heaps of 5.56 or .223, as I don't use it.
 
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A friend went over to the Kisimmee Fl store Thursday, got the limit 2 boxes of Winchester White box 200 rd box for $70 each. Another month and it will be even better. The "flippers" are already choking on their "scores." The "FFL emails" have gun prices dropping steadily. Thursday PSA AR complete lowers were $169, Friday same lower was $139. Hang tight. Joe
 
I'm getting at least 1-2 emails a day from major online ammo sellers. Ammo availability for common calibers is clearly starting to exceed demand at the old/top prices, and even the "first phase" of lower prices. Prices are moving down at an increasingly rapid pace. That could change quickly, but if it does not, I'd say we'll be down to sub-40 cents per round for 9mm within a month or two.
 
I was in academy yesterday and they had a lot of 556 and 7.62x39. Some 22lr as well. It was a good sign. Still to pricey for me to buy.
 
The Walmart I was in the other day had lots of stuff. The 450 BM stuck out and the CCI .22 LR was plentiful at $3.69/50 was better than the $9/50 I had seen at an Academy a few weeks ago. I can see myself buying ammunition again, some day, I’ll let everyone get their fill of this expensive stuff first though.

Availability is only one of at least two requirements I have for purchasing. If this price is right I might buy stuff I don’t even need but just because something is for sale doesn’t mean I’ll get bent over for it.
 
The supply train operates on economy of scale.
The factories turn out ammunition in huge runs, by the pallet load of an individual loading.

Which goes into trucks forty tons at a time to trundle to the wholesalers. Who then break the pallets out and congregate them into more saleable lots.

Which also ship by the truckload to the distributors, who break them into lots to retailer demand. The retailer needs this quantity of that, the other, and that third kind. Distributors also often provide brandname discounts, based on their own costs.

When deliveries start showing up by the truck load, shelves will swell, especially with all the emergency and rush orders in place.

As most things do, this will go from 5-10% of desire to 150-200% in an eyeblink. Prices will plummet as a result. The big box stores will probably have to stash pallets in their "back rooms"; the LGS will need floor space to drop their pallets of cases.
 
I was at the Walmart in Salt Lake city utah last weekend and they had NO ammo, except one lonely box of 300 legend. I asked if they had any rifles in the caliber and they said no.
 
Still waiting for primers at a fair price. Then I will rejoice.
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Primers will be the last thing to bounce back. They're going to be using all of them to make ammo until they feel like they've got enough backorders filled to relax a little.
 
I was in Academy a week ago when they were changing the shelf display from the temporary display of air guns and moving the ammo from behind the counter back out onto the shelves where it belongs. Evidently they feel pretty confident that they'll be able to keep something on the shelf in the near future.
 
I doubt our local Walmart will ever have any more. They quit selling guns altogether when the state passed a mandatory background check on sales claiming their staff was not capable of doing outside transfers as mandated by the state (they won't allow anyone to come in the store with a firearm to do a transfer) so instead they quit selling firearms. They then only had hunting ammo on the shelves since they had previously quit handgun ammo. Now they have nothing and I don't anticipate it coming back. Our best small LGS is gone, the owner died unexpectedly of a heart attack a year or so ago. there is another shop that is primarily trying to cater to high end collectors and hipsters. another shop that no one will do business with because they are jerks, and a chain Sporting goods store with low paid employees with an attitude. A true wasteland here. Thank God for the internet!! Oh wait, it was Al Gore....:p
 
I shoot my high end air guns more than powder burners even in the good times. During this current mess that is going on, even air gun ammo is scarce and the guns themselves are back ordered in many cases.
 
Our Academy was keeping up with stock, or more accurately, not getting swamped and clearing off the shelf before noon by panicked buyers. Ammo can be had, and online, there are a lot of discussions about prices going down. Like many others, I can wait.

Another indicator? PSA blem stripped lowers for 79.99 and they have been in stock for about a week now. Anderson, even less. The initial rush to buy seems to be satisfied, and those who stocked deep in the past - millions of us - aren't getting suckered by all the hype. The ammo makers also know that as they get caught up to not go overboard with too much production - they got hurt before, they aren't doing it again. Vista's old Remington plant in Lonoke is up and running and had 800 employees working last February, with more being hired.

Things are looking better.
 
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