Sportsman's Warehouse Finally Restocking?

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"I have a feeling our reloading component shortage is about as real as Santa and the Easter Bunny."

The "shortage" is real enough, but not from any manipulation of the retail outlets or the manufactors. They only planned for normal consumption and this time of year it tends to be pretty low. Our "Chicken Littles" got into a panic after BO won, they bought far more than normal and that prompted others to follow suit, buying more than they can use in many months. So, the store shelves were cleared.

Now that the retailers are past normal year end inventory problems, and all the taxes that includes, they will probably get things back on track soon enough.
 
While I understand the tax issue on inventory at the end of the year - our SW hasn't had squat for reloading for months - so I am not going to buy into that one.
 
The Loveland S.W. has been giving me the spiel since early summer. First they said they were waiting until hunting season, well, now hunting season is come and gone and the reloading section is pretty much cleaned out. Handguns are down to about 1/6 of usual, as are holsters. I didn't check ammo, I reload 90% of what I shoot and I stocked up on factory ammo way back when WWB 9mm was selling for $15/ 100.

It looks fishy to me. Maybe the new Canadian owners are just loath to sell gun stuff? I think they'll find out the hard way,though, that without the specialty stuff they're no match for Wal Mart. If they just try to keep the high volume mass appeal stuff they're history.
 
I don't understand how you can blame Sportsman's Warehouse for not having stock on the shelves, when every shooting sports retailer I've been in since the election has suffered the same fate. If the distributors don't have the product, the retailers can't get it, no matter how much capital they have. Right now, all the retailers I've talked to are begging suppliers for powder, primers, bullets, rifles, pistols and especially anything that resembles an AR. They just can't get it, and if they do get a little bit in, it's sold by the end of the day.

It's a supply and demand situation right now. I saw it coming and started stocking up last January, not this one. My stuff isn't for sale and won't be, either.

We've all seen this before if we've been in this game any time at all. The new kids on the block don't understand it, but it will level out over time, and I'm sure that Sportsman's Warehouse is going to get caught up, but it's going to take time.

Hope this helps.

Fred
 
We in Tallahassee FL are still out of stock too. I keep swinging by hoping a truck will come in soon. :(
 
I was in the Lacey, WA SWH yesterday and the shelves were completely bare. I was talking to the guys behind the counter and one of them mentioned that corporate had handed a $3+ million check to Hodgdon, and Hodgdon couldn't ship the order. As in, Hodgdon wouldn't ship on credit, and then when they got the cash they still couldn't ship the order right away. Maybe that means we'll see something in the coming weeks.

Obviously I have no idea if he was right or not, I'm just passing along what I heard.
 
We in Tallahassee FL are still out of stock too. I keep swinging by hoping a truck will come in soon.

I was in Tallahassee visiting relatives New Years weekend and stopped in SW. I needed a #9 shell holder. They had every shell holder size except what I needed. Some shelves were rather thinly stocked in the reloading area, but I don't know what they were missing since it was my first time in the store. When I asked the clerk about the shell holder he said they would have a truckload of stock coming in the next week. It sounds as though the truck never arrived :uhoh:
 
Stopped in the Columbia SC SW today- no restocking apparent at all, almost zero powder, a few primers, guns and bullets and holsters very low...
 
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I was in Tallahassee visiting relatives New Years weekend and stopped in SW. I needed a #9 shell holder. They had every shell holder size except what I needed. Some shelves were rather thinly stocked in the reloading area, but I don't know what they were missing since it was my first time in the store. When I asked the clerk about the shell holder he said they would have a truckload of stock coming in the next week. It sounds as though the truck never arrived
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Yep, never showed up. The had a couple boxes of TAC powder and my dad bought them all before I could get my hands on them. Hoping that truck shows up soon!
 
Stopped in the Columbia SC SW today- no restocking apparent at all, almost zero powder, a few primers, guns and bullets and holsters very low...
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Thanks Rhinoh. You saved me the trouble of another trip over to Piney Grove Rd. Hopefully there will be some supplies at the gunshow this weekend?
 
The Lacey, WA SWH gets their shipments every Thursday at about noon. They don't have the pallets broken down until about 4-5PM.
I called them at 4:30 last Thursday and all they had gotten was some AA powder. No Hodgdon, no Alliant, no IMR, no Winchester.

I ended up just ordering a bunch from Cabelas.com. They had Hodgdon in stock and on sale. 3 pounds of H110 and 2 pounds of Titegroup and with the Hazmat, shipping, and taxes it came to just under $25/lb. At least I'll have something to load with.
 
According to the guy I spoke to at the SLC location on Saturday, their issues have been mostly related to their ability to pay for new stock. They were recently acquired by another company, had a cash infusion, and now are waiting 2-3 weeks before goods re-fill their supply line. I guess we will see how true that is about Valentines day...
 
SSNVet may be right. If you are over 1million in income you must report on a cash basis. Therefore you must report all inventory at year end.
 
okay - for comparison - went to Cableas - they have EVERYTHING and SW has nothing. Same state - just about 15 miles apart. There is no ammo or reloading shortage - just at SW.
 
My local SW hasn't restocked and there are a lot more empty shelves since the end of December. The counter guy says since the Canadian outfit took them over orders have been slow and apparently a look and see evolution. I sure hope my store doesn't close as there isn't anything else for reasonable reloading supplies for ~60 miles.
 
Stopped by my local Sportsmans Warehouse located in Woodbury, MN yesterday and was greeted by a large green "Store Closing" banner. I was told that all stores in Minnesota are closing. The clerk didn't know the extent beyond Minnesota, but I would assume there are more.
 
I just read about that in the Red Star Tribune Desoto. Wow. A tough market but it says they've been losing money for a coulple of years already. At least they're only selling the store I go to in Fargo to the Canadian Coop and not closing it. We'll see how that goes.
 
If you go to the SW home site,they list the stores that are closing and those that have been sold to Canadians.
My daughter in law's store is on the 'safe' list,as is the Porltand,oregon store.
At meetings,the story is they WILL be resotcking soon,and heavy.Sure hope so.
 
It was announced in yesterdays Portland newspaper that Sportsman Warehouse sold all its stores in Idaho, Washington, Oregon (except Medford), and Western Montana to a Canadian company. They also stated they will no longer honor Sportsman gift cards. I had $100.00 worth of there cards, and I'll now only be able to use them at there Medford, Oregon store. What a bummer. I don't think I'll be doing much shopping at the new owners stores in the future.
 
It was announced in yesterdays Portland newspaper that Sportsman Warehouse sold all its stores in Idaho, Washington, Oregon (except Medford), and Western Montana to a Canadian company.
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Old news. The Canadian buy-out was posted in this thread nearly 3 months ago.
Nothing has changed, no components then and no components now.
 
This is different. The deal with the Canadian company fell through, so they're not buying the whole chain. What's left of Sportsman's Warehouse is still hurting for cash, thus the store closures.

"The deteriorating economy has drastically altered plans for a Canadian co-operative to buy 80 percent of Sportsman's Warehouse, a Midvale-based outdoors company.
Instead, Sportsman's Warehouse is closing 23 stores in 17 states and selling 15 other stores in the northern United States to UFA Co-operative Ltd., based in Calgary."

Salt Lake Tribune article
 
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