Hugger-4641
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I stopped at LGS today and was pleased to see quite a bit of Remington ammo in stock that wasn't there last week. This is not a chain store, but a larger mom & pop sporting goods store. There was .40, 9mm, .45, .38sp as well as several rifle calibers like 30-30, 300savage,.308 and also 20ga and 12ga.
Most of the rifle and pistol ammo was reasonably priced, I.E. 30-30 Core Lokt was $20/box, 12ga # 6 was $7.50 / 25rd box.
I was disappointed in the price of 20ga and .22Lr. The 25rd box of 20ga # 71/2 was $15.49. They had a large amount of 100rd plastic boxes of 22lr. with no limit. These were 1250fps, 40gr rn range ammo. $16.49 /box was a little steep for me so I only bought one box just to check the quality. I just couldn't see paying that much since I have plenty of 100rd boxes of Golden Bullets that I only paid $8/ box .
I was talking to one of the owners about it and he assured me that they weren't gouging. They have a standard mark up and that they were having to pay almost this much for the ammo. I have no reason not to believe him as I've been buying from this store for over 20yrs and check their prices and inventory almost every week. They've never been the cheapest for any given ammo, but they've always been competitive and consistent.
Maybe we are on a trend to improvement of supply and hopefully improved pricing will follow.
Most of the rifle and pistol ammo was reasonably priced, I.E. 30-30 Core Lokt was $20/box, 12ga # 6 was $7.50 / 25rd box.
I was disappointed in the price of 20ga and .22Lr. The 25rd box of 20ga # 71/2 was $15.49. They had a large amount of 100rd plastic boxes of 22lr. with no limit. These were 1250fps, 40gr rn range ammo. $16.49 /box was a little steep for me so I only bought one box just to check the quality. I just couldn't see paying that much since I have plenty of 100rd boxes of Golden Bullets that I only paid $8/ box .
I was talking to one of the owners about it and he assured me that they weren't gouging. They have a standard mark up and that they were having to pay almost this much for the ammo. I have no reason not to believe him as I've been buying from this store for over 20yrs and check their prices and inventory almost every week. They've never been the cheapest for any given ammo, but they've always been competitive and consistent.
Maybe we are on a trend to improvement of supply and hopefully improved pricing will follow.