Tool for finding ammo... feedback request.

Howdy folks...

I'm fairly new (first time post anyway) to the forum but thought I'd introduce myself here by letting you know that I'm one of the co-creators of AmmoSeek.com. We are always looking for constructive feedback from fellow gun people to help make AmmoSeek better for all.

We launched the site back in February after working on it over the summer/fall and have been working on improvements ever since.

Today we index 31 online retailers and we offer the ability to search for in-stock shotgun, rifle, and handgun ammo by caliber, grain, shot size, and more. We like to call AmmoSeek the "Google" for ammo. At least that's our aim. At the very least it can be a huge time-saver for the online ammo shopper.

So my point here is to introduce myself and request that you check out the site and send us some feedback, either as a reply here, or using our feedback form on the site. We'd like to know what you think of the site and its usefulness and we are always looking for suggestions for improvement too.

Also note that we do not sell ammunition, we just provide a service to help gun "nuts" like us find choice ammo at affordable prices online.

Thanks for your time and happy shooting!

-Marc

Yes, we noticed the existence of AmmoEngine during the development phase of AmmoSeek. It did not deter us from continuing work on AmmoSeek because (and yes I'm biased) AmmoSeek is just better...

Why do I think it's better even though I'm biased?

• AmmoEngine doesn't exclude out-of-stock items. AmmoSeek does.
• AmmoEngine doesn't include shotgun ammo. AmmoSeek does.
• AmmoEngine includes only 17 (functioning retailers). AmmoSeek has 31 and counting.
• AmmoEngine doesn't allow search by grain weight, manufacturer, ammo type, or arbitrary keywords. AmmoSeek does.
• AmmoEngine only updates their data once per day. AmmoSeek updates between 4 and 24 times daily (depending on the retailer).

In fact there are a few other sites that do similar things as well. Here is the full list we have discovered in our research. Perhaps some of these may be of use to some others on the forum here:

* http://www.ammospy.com/
* http://ammoengine.com/
* http://gun-deals.com/
* http://ammonow.com/

Please do your own research and if you find something that AmmoSeek lacks then let us know and we'll consider adding it. The more useful tools we have to find ammo the better!

Thanks for the feedback!

-Marc

Riss,

Your request is something we get a lot. It's probably the number 1 requested feature.

Adding reloading components is already on our To-Do list.

Thanks!

-Marc

ArmedLiberal,

We've been trying to figure out a way to do shipping calculations the "right" way, but doing it properly is extremely difficult (if not impossible) with the way most retailer sites are setup. Most of them require you to put in a credit card (as do most sites) before shipping is calculated. This is hard to automate and resource-intensive to an already resource-intensive operation (indexing ammo at retailer sites).

Also, calculating shipping of ammo is more difficult because we don't know how many boxes one may be interested in purchasing.

That being said we are working/researching the best ways to add some kind of shipping calculation into our results and hope to add it in the future.

Thanks for the suggestion!

-Marc