There has to be more to this than hording ammo!

[mugsie]

Now I'm getting pissed - I reload all my centerfired stuff, and have enough components (although powder could become a problem) to satisfy my needs for several months. Rimfire however is different. I am looking for rimfire ammo and finding not only are the shelves bare, but no end in sight either.

I can't believe people are still buying and hording ammo. I can't imagine people paying high prices for ammo only to hoard it. There has to be some other forces at work. CCI alone produces millions of rounds a day - you mean to tell me it's all being bought up? What about other brands, imported brands? Maybe I'm paranoid, but it doesn't make sense. In the short run, several months, it did, but not any longer.

What do you guys think? Still people buying everything up, even at high prices, and hording still? What say ye?

 

[yzguy87]

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=721607

 

[Impureclient]

I took the matter in my own hands and started trading off my supply of 9mm to I could shoot some .22. It really is ridiculous but until the hoarders are stocked up enough
to ease their mind and gougers have lost their insane profits, we will have to wait this one out.

 

[ID-shooting]

I live where I can see a Wal Mart across the field and through the trees. Yes, they get ammo shipments regularly. Yes, people buy it up as soon as it hits the floor. I see the same 10-15 guys in line every ammo day. Most them are scalpers as I will see these same guys at the gun shows with a 300% markup.

Sad as it is, people need to stop paying these guys and they will stop.

I have beeb lucky I guess and since I stop by 3-4 times a week I have been able to keep a decent 4k supply on hand. I did give a 225 round box to a dude and his two boys last week though. I bought the last three and as I was walking away I heard the boys ask if they could go shooting. Father said if there was ammo they could.

Might have been a sappy story for a scalper to get a box from me but since I didn't get that feeling I gave them one of my boxes.

Other note, I stopped into Cabelas yesterday. Shelf full of brass 55gr .223 for .50 cents each and about 200 boxes of CCI standard velocity .22 on the shelf. Didn't buy any. Lol

 

[Old Shooter]

This past weekend the cheapest 22lr I could find was $15/50 rounds. ( Could have bought a brick for $149 )

I can't believe that people are hoarding at that price and above.

Like the OP, I believe that other forces are acting to create, prolong this problem.

Now I'll go back to my stool in the corner and put my tin foil hat back on.

 

[Ryanxia]

It doesn't help that the importation has been held up by Big Brother. Not so much affecting .22's but many other popular calibers, and if you can't find any 9mm, .380, etc at a reasonable price what are a lot of people going to do? Shoot their .22's lol.

 

[huntsman]

I reload all my centerfired stuff, and have enough components (although powder could become a problem) to satisfy my needs for several months.

then why worry about .22lr ? I really don't get the obsession over .22lr. I get that some guys compete and some guys who where caught with their pants down on centerfire have to shoot.22lr but if you're set up to reload centerfire why isn't that you focus?

 

[Midwest]

It is July and the hoarding/shortage/panic/scalping has not let up here in Kentucky since mid to late December of 2012. This is still the worst I have ever seen it. Meijer's shelves of rifle and pistol ammo are still empty. Walmart? "Wait in line", "come back later", "can't say what will be on the truck".....

 

[baz]

I am looking for rimfire ammo and finding not only are the shelves bare, but no end in sight either.

Lots of .22 LR "in stock" via gunbroker.com. But the prices are still a lot higher than we were used to. The cheapest is about 0.10 per round, which works out to $50 for a 500 round box. I can remember buying these for less than $10 not too long ago, and before the latest panic the typical price was probably closer to $15. So it is still going for 3-4x what we are used to paying.

I doubt it will never get back down to $10 a "brick". If it drops to $20 I'd be happy. But I'm not holding my breath. Whether hoarders or not, it is all supply and demand. The supply is out there, at a somewhat higher cost than before, but it is demand that is keeping prices where they are. If you want it bad enough, you'll pay the market price for it. That's one of the costs of freedom.

 

[ID-shooting]

then why worry about .22lr ? I really don't get the obsession over .22lr. I get that some guys compete and some guys who where caught with their pants down on centerfire have to shoot.22lr but if you're set up to reload centerfire why isn't that you focus?

Why is it every time a thread pops up venting about ammo price/availability some one levels it "caught with their pants down?"

I get that some have, but there is a 3rd even 4th option.

I have plenty of centerfire (~1000 per gun) and do shoot as I replenish it. I just find it cheaper and more plentiful to shoot .22lr.

The other is the some just find .22lr enjoyable and that is what they prefer.

I fall into both those and I imagine several others do to.

 

[Sam1911]

Yup, already go this thread running here: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=721607