What is going on with ammo????

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Hi folks,
I only buy ammo occasionally....and then get what I think I'll need.
Started looking first online at some of the retailers I have bought from in the past, Midway, Ammo To Go, Sportsmans, etc..
I cannot find ANYONE who is even carrying stuff I want right now!:eek:
Shopping for some .380, .45acp, .44 mag--I CAN find some 9mm, but the prices went through the roof!:barf:
I don't read/post much on here either, but did something MAJOR happen that I missed?:confused:

What is going on??
I'm almost afraid to go to my nearest Wally mart or Ganders, Sticker shock for whatever they DO have in stock my do me in!
Pud
 
I am guessing you have not been on for the last six months.

Obama was elected and it kicked off an ammo buying frenzy with people hoarding ammo.

Don't worry, credit cards will be maxed out soon and the ammo companies will be able to catch up.
 
Thanks Tank...
Yup, I have not been on here for a while...:uhoh:
Sheesh!
Pud
 
Here in SE Washington, we seem to have a good supply of ammo. Last week I was desperate in purchasing 9mm ammo and tried buying them from Cabelas but they slapped me with 10% tax. Now, I have bought a few hundred rounds of 9mm and .38 special. The 9mm by Magtech were selling only for $13.99/50. The local gun show last weekend were selling Winchester 9mm for $30/100.
 
Man you should have stayed on Gilligan's island. You could probably find more ammo there than on the mainland.

Huge run on ammo. Some say because of ban, tax, or microstamping fears, others just because there are so many new guns being purchased. Probably a little of both.

Prior to the run on ammo, last summer let's say, the price of metals was sky high which started us all out on a bad footing.

The combination of high metals prices last summer and the buying spree over the winter and into this spring has left a lot of shelves empty of handgun ammo. And just forget about trying to find 00 buckshot.

They seem to have 30-30, 30-06, .243, .270 etc coming out their ears wherever I go.
 
To anyone with over 100 rounds of ANY caliber..STOP BUYING. I'm so sick of people hording hundreds or thousands of rounds of ammunition. BUY ONLY WHAT YOU'LL USE. I've been searching for 9mm ammo for weeks in the Chicagoland area. Its either completely sold out with no expected shipment dates or double the price.

The Apocalypse is not on the horizon! Obama isn't going to ban handguns! No crazy taxes are coming! SO CHILL OUT. Take a deep breath and calm down. This is ridiculous..act like mature, level-headed adults and stop hording ammo. Normal people like me cant find anything because of these crazed right wing psychopaths. I'm a conservative, but I don't buy into the fear mongering that has gripped the far right and paralyzed the ammo industry.

In fact, maybe as a measure of good faith, Obama passed a resolution allowing guns into all national parks today. So he's not the big, bad boogieman everyone initially portrayed him as.

Lets get back to normal, slow down the buying.
 
To anyone with over 100 rounds of ANY caliber..STOP BUYING.
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News flash, sport--some of us go through a hundred (or several hundred) rounds several times per month. So I should stop buying ammo because you say so?

There are only about a hundred threads open at any given time on ammo and different peoples' definition of "hoarding".

That said, I have not bought any centerfire ammo since I started reloading about two years ago. Should I stop buying components, too? :rolleyes:
 
News flash, sport--some of us go through a hundred (or several hundred) rounds several times per month. So I should stop buying ammo because you say so?
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Components are fine, champ. Your average, recreational shooter doesn't reload. High volume shooters should follow your example though.

You shouldn't stop buying ammo because I say so, you should limit buying ammo because the industry is saying so. Barren shelves plague every walmart and sporting goods store in at least a 30 mile radius around me. Stop being selfish for once and think about other shooters. Shooters who go to the range once or twice a month and don't find it economical to reload. I didn't know snobs were becoming the norm. I thought experienced shooters encouraged new ones to get involved.

Buying a box here and there isn't whats hurting us. Its buying cases and pallets that is. All I'm asking is that you reduce your buying so the new shooters who don't have ANY ammo can get some.

100 rds? really? gotta be a typo, a 100 rds won't even cover a good day at the range.
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Darn, you mean you might have to shoot only a hundred rounds? Well I'm so sympathetic. The new shortages are a reality. You can choose to be a part of the problem and continue to blow through hundreds of rounds in a fun day at the range or you can help be a part of the solution and limit how much and how often you shoot. In a few months, when we're beyond this ammo drought, you can shoot all you want. Until then, don't be selfish. Conserve and help the recreational guys out.
 
Speaking for myself, I've passed up .380, 9mm, and other calibers on shelves because I feel I have enough, which for me is several hundred rounds of each.

I reload so I don't buy much ammo anymore. I COULD use a few thou SP primers, however. Just a few. I pause for the laughter to subside.
 
Well there's your problem

To anyone with over 100 rounds of ANY caliber..STOP BUYING. I'm so sick of people hording hundreds or thousands of rounds of ammunition. BUY ONLY WHAT YOU'LL USE. I've been searching for 9mm ammo for weeks in the Chicagoland area. Its either completely sold out with no expected shipment dates or double the price.
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Guns aren't allowed in "Chicagoland", theres your problem! :neener: (I lived in downtown until recently, so I know your pain).

I ended up buying up 500 rnds of 9mm and 500 rdns of .45 ACP. The local Academy had plenty when I was there, but barren shelves are more the norm. I'll use it up over several visits to the range, I just don't want to have to hunt it down a box at a time whenever I want to go shooting. If that makes me a crazy, right-wing "hoarder" then I guess I'm guilty.
 
To anyone with over 100 rounds of ANY caliber..STOP BUYING. I'm so sick of people hording hundreds or thousands of rounds of ammunition. BUY ONLY WHAT YOU'LL USE.
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I use more than 100 rounds every time I go to the range. Sorry, I'm gonna buy what I can when I can. Save your anger for the scalpers who don't even intend to use it but to sell it for a higher price. If you waited too late to stock up it ain't my fault.
 
I have 200 rnds in my house I guess I am a horder... I also have 100rnds of .40 S&W and god knows how much .17hmr and .22LR... 100rnds of ammo is hardly any ammo at all. I mean 50rnds takes about an hour to shoot lol seriously now it isn't the people with 100 rounds it is the people spending $2,000 at wal mart to buy up all the ammo they see.

The local wal mart here has .44mag for $35 per 100 and .40S&W for $30 per 100. 9mm is usually $11 per 50 or $20 per 100.
 
I ended up buying up 500 rnds of 9mm and 500 rdns of .45 ACP. The local Academy had plenty when I was there, but barren shelves are more the norm. I'll use it up over several visits to the range, I just don't want to have to hunt it down a box at a time whenever I want to go shooting. If that makes me a crazy, right-wing "hoarder" then I guess I'm guilty.
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Exactly. If I run across 500 or a 1,000 rounds and it doesn't hurt the budget, I'll buy it so I don't have to scrounge when I want to go to the range. The worst problem I usually run into is when people can't find enough to take our CCW class. Then I'll sell them a box at the price I bought it for so they can at least qualify that day. I can do that for everyone except those who have .380's, which ammunition is presently being lovingly handcrafted one round at a time by blind, arthritic gnomes out of unobtanium and then shipped around the Horn on a slow boat from China. For those unfortunates who listened to the gun store dude and bought a .380 as "the perfect gun for you, little lady" I will also loan them a 9mm or 40 cal. to qualify with.
 
I have 200 rnds in my house I guess I am a horder...
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Actually, what you are is illiterate. As I clearly stated, hoarders are the ones stashing hundreds, if not thousands of rounds. Buying more than 100 rounds at a time right now is just selfish..if that makes you feel any better.
 
To anyone with over 100 rounds of ANY caliber..STOP BUYING.
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I have 200... I just bought 100... I am fairly literate thank you... The problem isn't the people buying 100rnds it is people buying thousands each day they can. 200 rounds is a common purchase at any time.
 
I'm supposed to only buy 100 rds because some selfish lazy idjit with misdirected anger thinks 100 rds is enough?

Hell, the matches I shoot take more than 100 rds!

I don't know when I'll be able to find/buy some, so if I buy it when I see it for when I need it down the road, that makes good sense.

Waiting to buy ammo until the day I need it, as he implies, is extremely short-sighted and naive.

I bet he won't buy a fire extringuisher until he smells smoke, either.
 
And if I lived in Chicago-land, I'd make sure I hit every store 5 minutes ahead of you and buy all their ammo !!

:D :D :D
 
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