It’s a real issue for sure. You buy a nice addition of ammo for your stash. Let’s say 150 rounds in a certain caliber. Then you think “Great, I just bought 150 rounds, I can get out there and go shoot 150 rounds and it will be fun.” Then you don’t get to the range for a while for whatever reason, and a month later you look at your stash…. “It’s now a pretty good level. I don’t think I need to hoard any more per se, but I’ll buy another 200 rounds and that will be the ammo I actually take out and shoot.”
And so the cycle continues.
It’s very frustrating to me that the industry is susceptible to these crazy surges in demand every time something happens to get people riled up. I just want to be able to go down to my local gun store and buy 3 boxes of .32acp, .25acp, 7.5x55 Swiss, or 8mm Mauser without breaking the bank, (or a case of 5.56 or 7.62x39) and trust that it’s in stock, because it’s always in stock, because it’s a commodity just like fishing lures or compound bow accessories. I know that’s not reality but a man can dream, right?