Heads-up Ammo Is Flying Out The Door!

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We have unloaded several trucks with some new items. Fair warning In
25 years we have never seen the demand for ammo that we are seeing now.

We have hired several new people and are working extra hours.
Sometimes we cannot even answer all the calls.

Please try and e-mail any questions or order online using the very
secure Ammoman online ordering.
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Sounds like the "sky is falling", by chicken little. You warning us or trying to sell ammo. :eek:
 
I got that e-mail from ammoman, too.

I suspect that ammo sales are well....up quite a bit lately.
 
No question the stuff is flying off the shelves.

As to the real reason why who knows. Likely as not it's just pent up demand since we went a good while without any at all, especially in the 5.56 range.

You couldn't get 193 of any flavor at all, now there is some to be had, although it's a ridiculous price.

What was it, 2 years ago, maybe year and a half you couldn't find anyone with anything in stock at all.

Lots of people burned through their stash during that dry spell.
 
Ammoman is a company that has a history of cheating and/or mistreating their customers; frankly, I'd buy from Walmart or start reloading before I give them any of my money. :cuss: If you really need to buy ammo online, there are much better companies to deal with, such as AIM surplus and Widener's.
 
My firends and I just split 3000 rounds from Ammoman. Wasn't as good a price as last year, but still not too bad. Got my stash up a bit. Hopefully I won't have to buy for a while and then the price will come down . . . (haha, laughs hysterically and then starts to cry).
 
I have purchased from Ammoman & would do so again. I just don't like salesman telling me to buy, buy, buy. My problem I reckon. :)
 
Ammoman is a company that has a history of cheating and/or mistreating their customers
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Huh? I've never heard a single story like that about ammoman.

Gonna have to call BS on you there unless you can point to something.
 
Chibajoe,

I have purchased from ammoman several times before and will do so again. His prices are very competitive when you consider he doesn't charge shipping. All of the ammo I have received has been in exellent condition and shot well out of my weapons. Sorry you had bad luck.
 
My reason for stocking up on quality ammo with long shelf life is simple. Should the day ever come, God forbid, that owning a gun is against the law or unreasonably difficult, purchasing ammo for same wouldn't be allowed. I want a more than ample supply.

I passed through the den yesterday and heard just a snipit of a CNN story regarding the current Supreme Court investigation of the DC gun law: "...end up going house to house looking for guns."

Extremist? Yes. However, at age 62 I don't discount the possibility of anything.
 
Ammunition to Go.

I don't think I've seen much mention of them around here, but I'm having great luck with Ammunition to Go: https://ammunitiontogo.com/catalog1/

I've ordered from them 3 times now using the web form only, and they are very quick to get my orders out the door. Shipped the same day twice, the third time I ordered on the weekend.
 
I've been in to three different stores in the last couple of days that all sell ammo. All three of them had plenty of ammo on the shelves, no long lines to buy the stuff, just sitting there, no abnormal demand. About the only shortages I've seen this week wasMonday night at the local grocery store in the deli section, apparently someone forgot to place the order and their potato salads were very depleted and down to just a half a bowl of German potato salad, but all was back to normal by Tuesday evening with a full selection of a variety of potato salads. I picked up a pound of their picnic potato salad, it was good.

I don't party to folks resorting to promoting hysteria to make a sale. Sounds bit like pump and dump advertising to me, sort of like the penny stock email spamming.
 
Ammoman is a company that has a history of cheating and/or mistreating their customers
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:confused:

So you had a bad experience and now they have a "history?"

Anytime I have bought from them, it has been the best price I could find by a good amount and I received it within 2-3 days.

I'll be a life long Ammoman customer.
 
Ammo prices here are all over the place, Central Florida, depends on who you go to. The Overpriced but conveinent range I go to charges 14.99 for a 50 box of .38 spcl, 12.99 for 9mm, and 23.99 for .45 ACP (I remember only a year ago being 15.99) and don't even ask about .357 magnum or .44 Magnum, it is too depressing. Oddly enough though the .45 Long Colt is going for 16.99 and .454 Casull is giong for 21.99 (a cousin of mine sent me money to pickup a few hundred rounds for him for when he stops by during may, In Penn. its going for 35.99 where he lives).

If you go to the Army Surplus place that I like I generally do between two and five dollars cheaper on the ammo depending on the caliber. What it all seems to come to is middle men and the cost of gas.

I have two buddies working at the overpriced but conveinent range and they told me the place is doing about forty percent less business than six months ago, to make up for the loss they've upped ammo and gun prices...yet they keep seeing a down spiral in revenue (go figure:banghead:). I've never bought a gun from them and never will at their outlandish prices and have told them everytime they joke about me buying a gun from them. I only buy a single box of 38 spcl when I go otherwise I have to pay an extra 3 bucks to use the range and the savings I get from other shops just isn't worth it then, but I also bring along from other shops .44 Magnum and .357 magnum and I have gotten the occassional odd look from them for it.:evil:

At the Army Surplus place they've been keeping less and less ammo because the owner, I got this from one of the associates, the cost of wholesale has been unpredictably going up and down, some months good to buy while others not so much. I have noticed they are flush some months and bare others. Thank god I've been brass fetching after every visit and have about 3k in pieces of 9mm, .357 mag, and 38 spcl. It's time to take to reloading as I figure it. I've lessend my range visits till I get my rebate check and then I'm getting me a kit from Hornady and my powder from a local guy who is quite competitive. Ammo prices will start to fall if we buy less of it.
 
I'll chime in and say that sometimes Eric the Ammoman (the guy, not the company) comes off a bit odd, but professionally, I've never had a problem with them, have ordered several times, and probably will do so again (likely soon). I've never heard of anybody that's been "cheated" - but have heard of some people feeling mistreated or verbally abused. The one time I had a problem (UPS mis-routed the package, and by the time it got to me, it was too late for the class I needed to use the ammo for), Eric refunded my money with no questions asked, and said, "Try me again next time." I think that's a good way to do business, and I'll support it with my dollars.
 
I got no issues with ammoman - just got some Lithiuanian .308 from him a couple weeks ago. It showed up in 2 days with no issues and it seems to have higher QC than the Federal American eagle stuff I have.

I can't say for anyone else, but I've read one other forum about increased buying of guns and ammo. Personally, I've been buying as much ammo as I can afford.
I figure I'll still want to shoot next year at this time but the cost will probably be twice as much. So if I'm going to shoot anyhow, why not buy what I'll be shooting now?
IMO, it's not unreasonable to think that others are doing the same.
 
I've ordered from Ammoman in the past with no problems.

My biggest issue with Ammoman is that they (along with many other companies) refuse to sell to MA residents now. :(
 
I've used Ammoman for years with no problems. The shipping is part of the cost. Check other sellers, do the math. Sometimes Ammoman is cheaper, somethimes not. But, I've never been cheated or abused.:D
 
I ordered a case of 7.62x39 from Ammoman on Tuesday around lunchtime. My wife took it from the UPS guy yesterday afternoon. A tad over 24 hours from submitting the order to my front porch.

That's been my experience every time I've ordered from them. I'll continue to do so.
 
Gee, ya think the Winchester plant being down for most of a year had anything to do with it?

Prices are about the same as my local dealer. Why go Internet for the same price I can get down the block.
 
Why go Internet for the same price I can get down the block.
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Don't blame you there. I wish there was a local source around me.

Closest thing to me is Cheaper than Dirt's retail stores and they don't stock much milsurp.

You are very lucky to have a local supply.
 
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