To prevent another Fight at Academy ammo shelves....

[Golfanaticshooter]

It’s crazy these days, but at least it’s available there. So many places are just always sold out. It seems like there are two options now: get lucky at a large retailer to get decent prices, or buy online for crazy high prices. It's crazy enough that I built a tool to help find the lowest stuff I can: BulletBuyer ( https://bulletbuyer.com ). It's still high pricing, but at least it's available haha. It compiles the cheapest, name-brand ammo listings from top-rated sellers, and updates the listings every few minutes. I built it for myself, but decided to open it up if it helps anybody else.

That's a really cool site/tool. Thank you! It's also somewhat encouraging to see zero bids on some of the popular items.

 

[CapnMac]

It's been long known that, in a case of information paucity, speculation "fills the gap."

The tricky part is that the data available to speculate upon is also limited. (Sadly, Dunning-Kreuger tells us it's perfectly natural to not know what we don't know.) That speculation, if undisturbed, becomes a fact unto itself, which further complicates matters.

Our modern world now allows us, if we care to, to expand our knowledge base, to question our own speculations. Even to double-check the "Did they actually just say that?" utterances our fellow hominids spew out.

It can be tough sledding out there.

And, it invites skepticism and cynicism. (I know of an Academy, which is the only one in that County which cannot be relied upon to know if the local Little League allows aluminum bats--a grain of salt is often required.)

 

[The Last Outlaw]

Sportsman 2020 looks like a spammer, same post in multiple threads.

 

[.308 Norma]

In Colorado Springs there are limits on how many people can be in a given store at a time due to Coronageddon.

That's what this sounds like to me

Yep, it's like that around here too. In Pocatello, the state liquor store is right next door to Sportsman's Warehouse, and when corona was first getting started, the line to get into the liquor store was almost always longer than the line to get into Sportsman's Warehouse.
In fairness though, the state liquor store is no more than about 1/8th the size of Sportsman's Warehouse. So a half dozen people in the liquor store at one time would make it pretty crowded.

 

[JDeere]

Stopped by Academy twice this week since I go by there all the time. Tuesday I picked up some 500 round packs of .22 for a fair price just to stash. I stopped in yesterday and there was line in the ammo section waiting to buy 223/5.56 and a few other asst cals but no pistol ammo. Sold out in no time and a 3 box limit. I just watched as I'm good on ammo. Atleast Academy keeps their prices fair and has not raised them by much.

 

[Drail]

Academy's prices on everything are just stupid and have been for some time. I go there with the wife but never buy anything.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Yep, it's like that around here too. In Pocatello, the state liquor store is right next door to Sportsman's Warehouse, and when corona was first getting started, the line to get into the liquor store was almost always longer than the line to get into Sportsman's Warehouse.
In fairness though, the state liquor store is no more than about 1/8th the size of Sportsman's Warehouse. So a half dozen people in the liquor store at one time would make it pretty crowded.

Why is it a "state" liquor store? Is it owned by the state or the only one in the state or something?

 

[.308 Norma]

Why is it a "state" liquor store? Is it owned by the state of the only one in the state or something?

Yeah, liquor stores in Idaho are state owned. In fact, they are properly called "Idaho State Liquor Dispensaries," and there's a limit on many of them there can be in a certain area - depending on size of the population of that area. The one I was talking about is next to Sportsman's Warehouse in Pocatello, and I think Pocatello actually has 3 of them because it's a pretty good sized town. We don't have any state liquor stores out here where we live. The closest one is 12 miles away, in Lava Hot Springs.
Don't mix (pun intended) beer and wine sales with hard liquor sales in Idaho though. Unlike hard liquor in Idaho, beer and wine can legally be sold in grocery and convenience stores - as long as the stores have the proper license(s) of course.

 

[Bwana John]

Why is it a "state" liquor store? Is it owned by the state or the only one in the state or something?

In a couple of states (ID, AL, NH, NC, UT, VA, PA...) you can buy beer or wine at the regular market, but liquor must be purchased at a state owned and run liquor store, and it it not always open, most are closed on Sunday, and they do not stay open late at night, and do not sell in the morning.

In Colorado it can be sometimes easier to buy weed than alcohol, and with less stigma attached.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

In a couple of states (ID, AL, NH, NC, UT, VA, PA...) you can buy beer or wine at the regular market, but liquor must be purchased at a state owned and run liquor store, and it it not always open, most are closed on Sunday, and they do not stay open late at night, and do not sell in the morning.

In Colorado it can be sometimes easier to buy weed than alcohol, and with less stigma attached.

Huh, curiously totalitarian for what I used consider some relatively "free" states. Seems like a decent racket to generate revenue, though.

 

[Bwana John]

There are also "dry counties"


In Arizona many of the Indian Reservations (~1/4 of the state) are dry.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

With a 3 box limit it's kind of silly to think one is buying to flip.

Not necessarily. During the 22 shortage of the past administration, my city had the same few guys waiting waiting for various stores to open and/or visiting stores multiple times in a day or week, all buying whatever they could at as many stores as they could as often as they could. Because they had no jobs they were able to get a pretty good corner on the market.

I don't know if they were working together or not, but there was one LGS in town who always seemed to have a supply of 22LR...at $85 per brick, so I suspect a connection.

 

[.308 Norma]

Huh, curiously totalitarian for what I used consider some relatively "free" states.

Yep, when I was a kid, Mom and Dad sold a few guns, and a lot of shotgun shells through their country grocery store/gas station. However their biggest money maker was beer sales. They couldn't sell wine though because back in the '60s and early '70s, it was against the law to sell wine in grocery stores in Idaho. I don't think that changed until the late '80s, but I'm not sure. All I know is it was still illegal to sell wine in grocery stores in Idaho for a long time after I got home from the Navy in 1972.

 

[Robert]

Guess we are done with anything resembling on topic discussion.