PANIC TIMES HIGH PRICES.

[Highland Lofts]

We were talking about things on another thread and got to talking about high prices durring troubling times.

Please no bashing or trashing anybody.
Just past high priced item from pani buying times.
A friend bought a case of twelve 100 round double drum AR15 magazines for $119 a piece.
Durring one of the panic times t alked him into taking ten of them to the gun show to sell.
At that time they were bringing $300 a piece.
He took two of them in and we were walking around with a piece of cardboard with $275 on it. We didnxd make it down one isle and they sold. We went back out and got the other eight of them and they sold really fast.

It's amazing what people will spend when things turn sour. But it generally bounces back to almost normal after time.

Here a few years ago when 22lr wasn't available i had a bunch of it that I bought over several years stocked up.
One of the gun stores I go to had a few used guns that I wanted that sat there for several months.
We worked out a decent price on the guns and they gave me $50 a brick credit towards the guns with no sales tax.
I picked up a Marlin 39A - 22lr lever action with a decent scope on it.
Starting price $650.
Trade price $350.
Cost me eleven $25 bricks of 22lr ammo.

Another gun I got was an old 20 gauge Ithaca model 66 single shot shotgun
Starting price $250
Trade price $150
Cost me three $25 bricks of 22lr ammo.

And there were other ones I picked up for 22lr ammo.

There has yo be some good stories out there to share.

I have more I could write about.

 

[troy fairweather]

Supply and demand
People forget it takes time and materials to make stuff, think back when the 22 stuff was out read the cci factory was making 48 pallets of 22 a day. A bunch off people freaked out and said that's a lot worse it all going, they forget to think that's about one pallet per state and maybe one case per county.

 

[jmorris]

When Clinton signed the AWB you could buy a Glock 20 and sell the mags and keep the pistol for free. Yes, $360 for the pistol and two mags and sell, the mags for $180 ea.

10-22, plastic 50 round mags went for more than the rifles did. It wasn’t because they were “worth” more but the fact that no one knew if things were going to end or get worse, in 20 years.

These days, if things are not completely different in 24 hours, something needs to be set on fire....

 

[Highland Lofts]

Locally I am seeing private sale of primers for $100 a thousand.

 

[Hartkopf]

Academy and BassPro are holding prices pretty close to pre panic but you have to become an expert shopper with a plan and lots of time to get it before it’s gone. If you need something now you’ll pay extra one way or another. A LGS has a big shelf full of ammo right now but the prices are silly high. $30 for 50 rounds S&B 9mm fmj. I don’t have a problem with their prices because I don’t need anything but at least they have ammo for desperate people.

 

[3Crows]

Locally I am seeing private sale of primers for $100 a thousand.

And you will not see me feeding the reseller beast that is significantly responsible for creating the shortages.

 

[rayw1128]

Seeing ammo prices (9mm and 223) sky rocket over the last couple of months. Primer prices as well.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I got back into reloading a couple of years ago when my grandson started shooting center fire guns and have been stocking up on reloading supplies since I got back into it.

I am in no need for anything, but will buy stuff if it is at a decent price.

When the 22lr panic struck I was giving 22lr ammo away to guys who bought thier kids or grandkids a 22lr rifle and couldn't find a single bullet.

If every one would just buy normal and slow down on shooting when it starts to go bad things wouldn't be that bad.

 

[Ernie Bass]

I reload, but I have never yet see why people say that they reload as if that is a way to avoid not have plenty of ammo in storage. Reloading is nothing more than buying all the components separately, powder and primers etc get on the shortage list just like anything else.
I have both, boxes of ammo that I have been putting away for years and reloading supplies. And this shortage is scary in the fact that no time in history for decades have we had to actually think about defending ourselves and families like we are seeing now. I have said so many times, I saw this coming many years ago. Much was written about the Riots and worse that were coming and will come in the future. And it will get much worse. This is only the tip of the Iceberg. And if they do not get their way come the next election they are going to try and burn this Country down even further than they are now.
People better wake up and realize these people are Terrorist to our Country. And they enjoy doing what they do. The Propaganda of "Peaceful Protest" from CNN etc. has worn itself out. Reality has set in.They have destroyed and held this Country in hostage. Nothing but threats, acts of violence resulting in nothing but Extortion.When one of the leaders gets on a major news network and tells the world "If we do not get what we want, we will burn down the system". Believe it. He is not lying. He is giving you a heads up.

 

[armoredman]

I walked in to Sportsmans' Warehouse in Marana last week and lo and behold there was a 1000 primer brick of Federal Small Rifle primers. It was the only box on a wide and empty shelf, so I felt sorry for it and took it home. SW did NOT jack up the price - I walked out with it for under $25. No, you can't have any.

 

[toivo]

In the last panic I couldn't find .22 LR anywhere. Finally I went to one of the bigger local shops about an hour's drive away. As I walked in, I saw a pyramid of bulk boxes (325 rounds) of Federal AutoMatch -- the kind that was selling for $14 a box at Wal-Mart before the madness. I started to walk towards it, and the salesman called out "No limit -- buy all you want!" When I got close, I could read the price: $60 a box.

18¢ a round for bulk .22? No thanks. I left.

 

[Mr. Zorg]

The current import / export situation of many items is significantly different from prior events of shortages of firearms, ammunition, and reloading components. Who knows when, or if, that will return to 2019 levels.

 

[Steelworker]

I’m AMAZED that after 3 YEARS of basically giveaway prices, that ANYONE could still need anything so badly that they would pay panic prices!!

 

[Walkalong]

Not really on topic for reloading, yep, it's going around again.