Ammo at lgs

[gunlaw]

Stopped by LGS on the way home good supply of S&B 9mm $19.99 box of 50. 500 Remington Thunderbolts $45.00 yikes. Other calibers like 308 and other rifle also available. Decent amount of ammo but the prices are still up there.

 

[Craig_AR]

Now that Academy has a decent flow of ammo, their 50 rd boxes of FMJ 9mm have jumped from $0.36/rd to $0.52.

Welcome to the new normal.

 

[Skeptic13]

In all of my LGSs ammo is still scarce and expensive.

 

[grammontS]

In all of my LGSs ammo is still scarce and expensive.

Same here , I'm glad that when I got into shooting the year before this nonsense started , I bought ammo at an alarming rate , and reloading supplies.

 

[BluewaterLa]

Just like last time prices will stay a bit higher than we like or will pay for on a regular basis, a year or two of having plenty of ammo on the shelves and not much moving then we will see all these ''Sales'' on ammo putting prices right back to normal prices.

I see this now with online vendors and the 40 plus emails I get daily with them all but begging me to buy the steel case and corrosive foreign ammo for inflated prices that are more than what I would pay for brass name brand ammo.
Slowly they are sitting on a bunch of ammo that they need to sell so the prices each week are coming down.
I suspect it wont be much longer till they figure out they will be stuck with a bunch of steel cased crap and high priced brass case ammo that no one is willing to spend a whole pay check on
Prices will fall again just like they did during the '' Trump slump for ammo manufactures'' Will just take some time and for the scalpers to figure out the panic buying has pretty much gone to bed for the worse part. Still running into folks buying up ammo they don't even own weapons to shoot said ammo with the intent to raise prices 4 to 10 times what they bought it for to sell online.
Most of that ammo is sitting at their home and no bites / sales on the ammo.
Things are slowing down, just be patient and we will be able to buy loaded ammo, components, primers and powder when we please once again.

 

[Insignificant bill]

Personally I'm not paying $20 for 50 rounds of 9 mm or more than .05 a round for 22lr. I don't care how much ammo they have in stock

 

[Grumpy_old_Fart]

bought 4 boxes of 7mm mag winchester supreme ammo at 35 a box today. i think thats pretty good. boxes are marked 50 bucks each.

 

[TTv2]

I was at an LGS last week, first time I'd ever been to it, and 9mm was $38 plus tax for some store reloaded ammo. You know, $41 for about 10 to 15 minutes of shooting just doesn't work for me, 7 boxes of that ammo is my yearly range membership dues. I'll just shoot .22 instead.

 

[Batty67]

I try to look at it like this: 9mm prices for decent quality, new, brass-cased ammo from say May 1 from 65 cents per bullet to now as low as 45 cents per bullet. That's a stiff price drop in a short time. I too am getting inundated with daily emails from large online ammo sellers with ammo sales. I think, barring anything wacky happening (which is always a possibility) that 9mm will be routinely down to under $20 for a box of 50 SOON. I really don't think it will drop below $15/50 for many months, and maybe like a year. And I tend to doubt it will go much lower, reflecting the new "new" prices.

 

[jmorris]

I am seeing more of it staying on the shelf around here too. That is the first step in lower prices.

The second step is some have removed quantity limits they had in place.

I wonder what group is larger, the number that didn’t think it would take this long or the group that thinks things will never be normal again?

 

[Deanimator]

I don't even bother anymore.

I occasionally look online, but everybody is sold out of much I'd have any interest in.

I stocked up on M193 decades ago when I thought I was going to have to shoot some neo-Nazis. I used very little of it over the years.

Before we entered the world of "Omega Man" and "Britannia Hospital", I was thinking about getting an AK103 clone. Now I'm glad I didn't, and that huge stockpile of 5.56mm is very comforting after being forced by a fire to move to a home literally surrounded on all sides by high value looting and arson targets. When things really started getting bad, I just upgraded my AR to a modern tactical 16" upper and optic and called it a day. I'm sitting on that ammunition in case I need to use if for something other than idle amusement.

I was able to get a supply of 0 and 00 buck before things REALLY got crazy. I wanted to buy some slugs, but nobody I trust has them.

Weirdly, even things like 12ga. bore brushes are COMPLETELY unavailable in local stores, either gun stores or Walmart, or at least they were when I was looking for them. I ended up just ordering them from Amazon.

 

[Speedo66]

Eventually, when all that high priced ammo starts sitting there unsold, prices will come down.

When it gets to $10 or less a box of 9mm, BUY! Same for other calibers you shoot. Stock up every time you walk in the store if it's cheap or on sale and squirrel it away and we won't be having all these doom and gloom high priced ammo threads here, because you know there will be a next time....

 

[1942bull]

The last time I bought ammo at my was on March 30. I purchased 50 rounds of Federal HST 124 grain JHP for $59. That was a good price. I just looked up a couple online sellers and they were selling 50 rounds for $75 and 20 rounds for $35. Now tat was during the gun and ammo buying rush. I do not know what my LGS is selling it for today.

 

[tws3b2]

At local sports store today. The shotgun ammo shelves were nearly full. The rifle ammo shelves, more than I've seen in over a year. The handgun ammo shelves still nearly empty but they did have about 15 50 round boxes of 9mm fmj and 15 50 round boxes 9mm hollow point and 8 boxes 45 auto. Prices seem to be slowly coming down, a little.

 

[TheBruce]

I'm not even looking for ammo anymore, at the moment. Don't need any, and certainly not paying these prices. Prices will only come back down to reality if people stop overpaying out of some manufactured sense of desperation, or whatever is driving the behavior.

 

[Encoreman]

Local hardware store that sells guns and ammo had 9mm brass blazer for $20.99 + tax. Things may be easing up a bit. Speedo you are very optimistic and that is a good thing, I don't feel like we will ever see $10 or less for 9mm again. With the prices of materials going up I doubt anything less than $12-15 is realistic. I hope you are right and I am wrong!!

 

[jag1954]

Stopped by the local Rural King yesterday and almost had a seizure, picked up 2 (50 rd) boxes (store limit) of Aguila .357 Magnum SJSP @ $20.99 per box. Then stopped by again today and bought some more. They also had some Winchester .44 Magnum FMJ, .410 gauge, .223, 5.56, 7.62, .308, .22LR and 12 gauge amongst others.

 

[Deanimator]

I'm not even looking for ammo anymore, at the moment. Don't need any, and certainly not paying these prices. Prices will only come back down to reality if people stop overpaying out of some manufactured sense of desperation, or whatever is driving the behavior.

I bought what I needed for immediate self-defense, only using what I needed to zero and function check the AR and function check the riot gun that hadn't been fired in twenty years.

I'm not playing these games. At this point, my firearms are purely for self-defense against whatever threats present themselves. I have what I need for that purpose.

Things are only going to get worse, much worse.

 

[TTv2]

Local hardware store that sells guns and ammo had 9mm brass blazer for $20.99 + tax. Things may be easing up a bit. Speedo you are very optimistic and that is a good thing, I don't feel like we will ever see $10 or less for 9mm again. With the prices of materials going up I doubt anything less than $12-15 is realistic. I hope you are right and I am wrong!!

Just general inflation will prevent that from happening. I was at Walmart today looking at Sardines and what use to cost $1 a can a few months ago is now $1.14, a 14% increase. Gas prices go from $2 a gallon to $2.80, 40% increase. The shampoo I like to use is now 50 to 100 cents more than what it was a year or two ago, a 10 to 20% increase. Ammo will be affected as well, if a box of 9mm cost you $12 a couple years ago, it will be close to $15 when it comes back close to normal. Primers, I expect a 20% price increase in those when things settle, so close to $50 for a brick.

All the stats that are saying inflation is only 5 or 6% is a bunch of hooey, they're lying and the corporate propaganda media is perpetuating the lies because there's a Govenment-Media Complex.

 

[DoubleMag]

''Just like last time prices will stay a bit higher than we like or will pay for on a regular basis, a year or two of having plenty of ammo...

...and no bites / sales on the ammo.
Things are slowing down, just be patient and we will be able to buy loaded ammo, components, primers and powder when we please once again.''


All based on, the future NOT remaining ''as is'' and instead, ''getting better.'' No more politikal upheaval, no more ATF proposals, kung-flu, no more shut downs, riots in the streets, etc.