Made it back home after logging 3,287 miles. My better half was not as tolerant of checking gun shops for ammo, so I was limited to only about a dozen places.
I ended up buying three boxes of Hornady XTP bullets for my .40 S&W and 10mm firearms.
Although I found lots of ammo, it was all much higher than I was willing to pay.
The last two places today were a Sportsman's Warehouse in Twin Falls, ID and Red's Trading Post in Twin Falls, ID.
The Sportsman's Warehouse was totally wiped out of all ammo, powder, primer and bullets. And their handgun selection was the worst I'd ever seen.
Red's Trading Post had some ammo, but I wasn't about to pay $49.99 for a box of 50 PMC Bronze .40 S&W plinking ammo.
They also had 4 varieties of powder; H110 and 4350 at a bargain price of $69.00 per pound, and Varget at $79.00 per pound. Not sure what the price was on the CFE BLK. Passed on all of it.
Oh! But they had primers! In a locked glass display case, with large pistol primers priced at $170 per 1000...
I did find a box of Hornady 180 grain FMJ FP .401 bullets for $25 that I grabbed, but passed on the rest.
The employees were pleasant and helpful and didn't have an attitude about anything; the prices were just too high for me.
And for a bit of trivia, apparently Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue bought his first guitar there in 1974...