Lots of ammo on the shelves this morning

[huntsman]

Well excuse my lack of giddy excitement because there’s ammo on the shelf.

LGS weekend email flyer has CCI blazer ammo fo $25.99(brass) and $23.95(Aluminum) Bud’s and Grap-A-Gun are worse.

With prices up and Stimulus spent I can’t get giddy until we see 9mm down to $15.09 at least.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Ya, one local pawn shop is overflowing with it......pretty much everything is $1 a round, though.

Its a game a chicken now, to see who blinks first, the sellers or the buyers. Ill wait, thanks.

 

[Bfh_auto]

Well excuse my lack of giddy excitement because there’s ammo on the shelf.

LGS weekend email flyer has CCI blazer ammo fo $25.99(brass) and $23.95(Aluminum) Bud’s and Grap-A-Gun are worse.

With prices up and Stimulus spent I can’t get giddy until we see 9mm down to $15.09 at least.

I think this is more of a "light at the end of the tunnel" post.
I agree I'm not giddy it purchasing more ammo.
Most of my 9mm was bought at 8 to 10 per box.
40 s&w was 12.
I'll just wait to see what the new sale price is after it's been in the shelf for a while. Then I can prepare for the next wave of panic.

 

[alsaqr]

Went to the Academy store for some deer corn. Got there at !0:00 am. There were large quantities of .223/5.56mm ammo: Winchester white box, Monarch and Russian steel case were all priced at $12.99. Someone's 9mm was $21.99. Also on hand were 5.45 and 7.62 by 39. Limit was four boxes.

 

[JTHunter]

While this is good news, finding primers is of greater interest to me as I only have ~200 left.

 

[Phaedrus/69]

Also the weather is getting nice so folks can get out and do other stuff. Especially with the pandemic restrictions mostly expiring now.

 

[Micro]

I just picked up 6 boxes of Remington Cor-Lokt .30-30 170 grain from SGAmmo today. There was no purchase limit for the first time in recent memory.

 

[mcb]

Went to my favorite LGS this morning and he had more ammo than I have seen for many moons. Though he was nearly out of rimfire and usually had more of that in the past few months. That said the prices were still very high and I did not buy ammo. He even had two boxes of Fiocchi 455 Webley at a painful $1.32 per round and I am reloading it for ~$.40/rd. If I could just get some Small Rifle Primers...

 

[Ignition Override]

Cases (large boxes: maybe 8" long?) of some handgun ammo on Academy's shelves today--one full day After restocking. To me, that Said Something.

These large boxes were labeled.380, .45, maybe .40?. I saw Zero 9mm. Didn't check any prices nor the brands (my main handguns are 9mm, and Ammo prices are still Far too high).
But we > expect < that prices might be very slow to decrease, whenever-----

A fair bit of small .223 boxes were there today; some whitish boxes, and some Tula.

My trip there was to buy new running shoes, and this was only my Second very recent visit, seeing a fair bit of certain > semi-auto chamberings < (both rifle and handgun) Both Visits.
This Academy is a half mile west of Wolfchase Mall, in Memphis/Bartlett.

 

[FROGO207]

I am waiting for the stock to stay on the shelves for an extended period and for prices to stabilize. Then when dealers offer sales and there are few takers, that is when this mess is over. Hopefully primers are in stock at reasonable prices. I expect a 25% increase though due to all costs going up.

 

[kcofohio]

I am waiting for the stock to stay on the shelves for an extended period and for prices to stabilize. Then when dealers offer sales and there are few takers, that is when this mess is over. Hopefully primers are in stock at reasonable prices. I expect a 25% increase though due to all costs going up.

That is my stance also. I haven't stopped into the gun shops but maybe 3 times this last year. I needed some Lee's Alox and gun cleaner. The time before last, the shelves were bare of powders and very little of ammo. Last time there was maybe 30 1-pounders and a sparse variety of ammo. I left, and they were minus 1 can of AA#9, the 1st time I had ever seen it on a shelf locally.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Dropped by my local Academy yesterday.
I drop in occasionally on the off chance I find primers.
No luck there, but they had all the 7.62x39, 7.62x51, 5.56, and .223 you could want.
I took it as a good sign. It's been a year since I saw that there.

 

[DeepSouth]

This morning I stopped by my local ACE Hardware to pickup a 1911-22 I had ordered and for the the first time in about a year and a half I saw 22lr for sale, I couldn’t believe it. They had 4 boxes of Aquila 250 rounds, I bought two boxes for $22 each.

I’ve been doubting all these “it’s getting better” folks, but it may just be getting better after all.

 

[Phydeaux642]

I live where the Bass Pro "mothership" is located and they regularly raise the prices on ammo. A case of .223 now sets at $699. That's why there is nobody standing in line.

 

[Grumpy_old_Fart]

Southern Oregon, a county the size of Delaware... I have more ammo than every gun store in the county combined... (that's sad, I don't hoard, I only reload)
The Sportsmans warehouse has Remington7x64 Brenneke... lots of it... but nobody has a rifle...

 

[redneck2]

I was at the WalMart in Plymouth, Indiana this morning. They had probably 60 or more bulk packs of Federal .22. I assume 500 rounds each. I have got a huge drawer filled with .22 so I didn’t get any.

They also have normal size boxes of CCI

 

[DustyGmt]

My LGS just posted cases of Federal AE9AP 9mm. $399/1000rd case. Also Hornady 5.56 for $11/20rd box.

 

[Buzznrose]

Good to see Remington ammo too.

I just picked up 6 boxes of Remington Cor-Lokt .30-30 170 grain from SGAmmo today. There was no purchase limit for the first time in recent memory.

I snagged 3 boxes of Remy Cor-Lokt .243 from SGAmmo yesterday. First .243 I’ve seen in a long time. Needed some for a shoot in July, so timely!

 

[Airborne Falcon]

.... and the primers show up.

.... and the primers show up.

.... and the primers show up.

.... and the primers show up.

(Figure if we keep saying it hopefully it will happen some day soon.)

Been through quite a few of these politically panic driven, limited supply chain shortages, etc., etc., although this one was definitely exasperated by the Covid scam and by Remington's financial woes (just heard yesterday through a good friend in Charlotte that was connected to Remington ... that Remington's holdings included billions of stockpiled primers when they shut down that are now being used to make new ammo) ... but all of that combined with the new gun owners and with everything else .... it was a darn perfect storm. The only thing that could prolong it more or that could have made it worse would have been if we were in a major overseas war or, as happened before, an Obama-like massive government purchasing order that bogarted all production until government agency's stores were overrunning ... and then he cut-off surplus military brass sales to-boot, from all the posts. Remember that Executive Order?

It causes shivers to run down my spine thinking how fragile our ammo supply chain is here in this country. This past crisis exposed some serious glitches in the system. Someone is going to invent a serious, corrosion free, alternative to primers after this ... and smart people will find ways to overcome these kind of shortages in the future.

As far as the current issues are concerned, it's good to see ammo coming back but ... it will be over when primers start showing-up in quantity again amd at decent prices.

 

[Armybrat]

Went by the local Academy at 10am yesterday looking for a beach lounge chair. Walked by the ammo shelves and saw dozens of boxes of 28 gauge shotshells and maybe five boxes of 7.62x39.

 

[AK Hunter]

My local Academy had been keeping ammo at the front desk to keep people from stampeding through the store & to police the two box a day limit. Now the stampede is over, so they now have them on a heavy roll a round shelf behind the gun counter to still police the two box limit. Hopefully the limit will be over soon, the high prices should be limit enough.
They don't have any primers & very little reloading supplys, I'm hoping that will improve too.

 

[Ignition Override]

AK Hunter: local Academy in n.e. Memphis has a 4-box/person limit.

Even at 1:00 yesterday, fairly Late when >>considering<< "these crazy times"..... there were Very many small (white) boxes of .223 or "5.56x45", possibly 1,500 rds.,
and on a Different shelf, a few small actual Cases of both , all at 1:00. Only a small fraction was Tula -- the rest basic US-made "range ammo".

Last week at 3:00 pm there were a few hundred rds. of 9x19 mm, all in small boxes plus over 1,000 rds. of .223 and 5.56x45.

Even If they had many cases of all types of ammo, the prices for me are unacceptable until they finally decrease a good bit, having heeded good advice years ago.

 

[Sniper66]

Hey Fellas....Please do me a favor. When you post finding pallets of ammo at your LGS, could you please say where?? And if you say "midwest" or "Texas", that doesn't narrow the search much. I'll appreciate the help.

 

[Ignition Override]

Sniper66: my comments always state at Academy, near Wolfchase Mall, Memphis….

or Classic Arms, in nearby Cordova TN.

What might help depict the present trends regarding much mire availability …..
….would be whether ammo is found within roughly an Hour of Store Opening Time, or 1:00, 3:00 PM etc. Quite a different meaning when a store has already Been Open a few hours.

Readers otherwise are forced to speculate and assume quite a bit. Maybe some narrators don’t want others to find their new ammo “supply”.

 

[MosinT53Hunter]

Least for me and many others near me, finding 380 acp is still as rare as hens teeth.

Prices are usually double too, WHEN you can find it. Still be awhile before it returns to the new norm.