Your alone Cabelas shelfs??? how

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tws3b2 said:
The sports store near me "not Cabela's" is stocked up with most ammo. Still slack on handgun ammo but did have some 9mm and 45 auto. Maybe I'm wrong but seems all the lgs near me are stocked with more import ammo. Some I've never even heard of.
I'm thinking when all this is over with. American ammo makers are going to eventually have to close or move out of the country. I don't think they are going to be able to compete with the foreign ammo that now found its way into the country. American people have already proven over again that they will not spend more for American made.
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Mine is stocked with more commercially remanufactured ammo from a vendor in Alabama; they got a pallet of 9mm a few weeks ago; not the best pre-panic pricing, but not as high as we've seen folks here mention
 
My local fleet farm used to have over 50 different pistols on display, for the last year it's been 2-3. They used to have hundreds of thousands of rounds of pretty much every caliber you could imagine. They've completely eliminated the ammunition section, now there's 2-3 boxes each of 2-3 calibers in the display case and a half dozen boxes of 40-60 dollars a box shotgun shells and that's it! It's like they don't plan on ever bringing it back. There's other sporting stuff on the 50' of shelves that used to have ammo.
 
shuvelrider said:
Cabela's in Grand Rapids Michigan has primers now, but are asking 65.00 for a carton (1000) CCI.
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they were selling their store brand .22 for $5 on the 50ct. this was about 2 weeks ago. their Guns are non-existent
 
Encoreman said:
shuvelrider I am afraid that may be the "new" normal price or close to it. I predict $50-70 normal pricing. Hope I am wrong and the are $30 again, but I am a realist.
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I’m think $.04 for standard stuff and $.08 for cci will be the norm
 
Mark_Mark said:
My LGS is completely stocked with everything except reloading components. How is Cabelas completely empty? there shelfs are more empty now than during last year pandemic???
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Because your LGS's management tactics are different than those of big chain retail store, that's why.

What are the relative prices of ammo in your LGS as compared to Cabelas? I'm betting they're higher...perhaps significantly higher.

That's because your LGS has the freedom to raise their prices as they see fit, unlike big chain retail stores. This is why big chain retail stores run out of ammo before your LGS...and why, in the middle of a dry spell on ammunition you are more likely to find ammo at your LGS than at a retail store when you need it.
 
My LGS has been getting more handguns in recently. I didn’t really look close at models but they had some S&Ws, Springfields, some Rock Islands and a couple that I didn’t recognize. Their long gun selection is better as well. Revolvers we’re just the Heritage and Chiappa .22s and they had a couple of those Thunderstruck .22 Magnums.

I was in Sportsman’s Warehouse in Prescott and Flagstaff AZ last week and they had a nice selection of guns, just no reloading supplies and a little ammo. I managed to get 2 boxes of 9mm Blazer Brass at $20 a box. Better than the $40 price here in Kaleepornia. ;)
 
So frustrating to see people complaining about having their LGS fully stocked, but no reloading components at the local Cabela's.

Makes me sick.

We have one LGS in 50 miles. One. Before Covid, the only other place to buy ammo and reloading supplies was WalMart. Then they got woke. Now, the only source for ammunition and reloading components is a single store. They haven't had primers since last August.

The nearest big box store and LGS is 50 miles away. I've tried calling for status of supplies, then driven 100 miles round trip to have everything bought up before I could get there.

There simply is no ammo, no powder, no primers, no bullets, at any price, for hundreds of miles. And it's been that way for over a year. So when I see people complaining about $65 for 1000 primers, I just shake my head, wishing I could buy primers at all.
 
shuvelrider:
If Michigan is now 100 percent open, as reported on the news, then with Many more restaurant tables available, more of those guys will be ‘“persuaded” to take girlfriends or wives out to dinner.

This will help reduce the overall cash available to spend on your local (or online) Ammo— all else being equal.
 
My local Cabelas, yesterday, had tons of WWB 223, 7.62 x 51 and 54. Some 50 BMG. A few boxes of 20 gauge and no handgun ammo. I stop buy if in the neighborhood. I assume the guys lining up in the morning sweep up the handgun ammo.

I just bought some 380 HP at an exhorbitant on line price as I was out and I don't see the supply getting better in real time. While the price hurt, in reality, those two boxes cost as much as a fancy dinner if we go out.
 
Ignition Override said:
shuvelrider:
If Michigan is now 100 percent open, as reported on the news, then with Many more restaurant tables available, more of those guys will be ‘“persuaded” to take girlfriends or wives out to dinner.

This will help reduce the overall cash available to spend on your local (or online) Ammo— all else being equal.
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I don't know about dining out, we typically eat at home. The Czarista of Michigan can run her mouth all she wants, just a liberal tool in my book. Someone said I'm complaining about $65 primers, so what, his part of the country is different than where I'm at. My lgs is out of most ammo, no primer/powder, our Dunhams is jacked high on ammo. As noted our Cabela's is just now getting primer and a hodge podge of ammo, when you go to their little table to ask. They aren't doing me any favors, I'll look elsewhere in my travels. I have a stash put away for the time being, I'll give my money where I feel good about doing so.
 
shuvelrider said:
I don't know about dining out, we typically eat at home. The Czarista of Michigan can run her mouth all she wants, just a liberal tool in my book. Someone said I'm complaining about $65 primers, so what, his part of the country is different than where I'm at. My lgs is out of most ammo, no primer/powder, our Dunhams is jacked high on ammo. As noted our Cabela's is just now getting primer and a hodge podge of ammo, when you go to their little table to ask. They aren't doing me any favors, I'll look elsewhere in my travels. I have a stash put away for the time being, I'll give my money where I feel good about doing so.
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I’m buying guns! The prices are back to normal and I have 1 year of not buying components or
guns saved up. Buy cheap stack deep
 
I just walked out of the Bass Pro mothership and their shelves are packed...all way more money than I'll pay for it though. A case of .223 for $700, cheap 9mm FMJ for $28 for 50, $33 for 50 rounds of cheap .45 acp ball. I know that's cheaper than it was last summer but I'm not a buyer.
 
Mark_Mark said:
Very true, but I’m not sure they sell much clothing. and on a style note, their clothing is bland at best. Better to buy from REI or 5:11 for jeans
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They sell to the suburbanites who want to look outdoorsy. High end technical clothing is what suburbia expects LEO's or wannabe's to wear, so they avoid that stuff. Also goes to their substantial and well funded market, who is cleaning their shelves off at every opportunity, just the same as another economic sector is standing in line at Walmart for their two box ration of .22. The big box retailers who snared enough trust to get repeat shoppers are selling all they can.

I learned a saying, Observe the Masses, Do the Opposite. Cabela's was already off my list years ago when it seemed every other neighbor was wearing a new Cabela logo sweatshirt every fall to rake the leaves.

I mulch in a surplus Austrian Mountain Jacket, wearing a $14 pair of thrift store 5.11's. I can't believe what people pay just to discard it next year when they gained another 10 pounds.
 
Tirod said:
They sell to the suburbanites who want to look outdoorsy. High end technical clothing is what suburbia expects LEO's or wannabe's to wear, so they avoid that stuff. Also goes to their substantial and well funded market, who is cleaning their shelves off at every opportunity, just the same as another economic sector is standing in line at Walmart for their two box ration of .22. The big box retailers who snared enough trust to get repeat shoppers are selling all they can.

I learned a saying, Observe the Masses, Do the Opposite. Cabela's was already off my list years ago when it seemed every other neighbor was wearing a new Cabela logo sweatshirt every fall to rake the leaves.

I mulch in a surplus Austrian Mountain Jacket, wearing a $14 pair of thrift store 5.11's. I can't believe what people pay just to discard it next year when they gained another 10 pounds.
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I dress like a beach bum! but those 5:11 slim fit jeans are amazing
 
Now that Bass Pro has stripped Cabela's of all their assets they have no more reason to continue keeping them open as a separate name entity. Look for many Cabela's to be closed and in markets where there's no competing Bass Pro presence they may be reopened as a Bass Pro store. This statement is opinion and I have no facts to back it up, but it follows along the usual lines of corporate mergers and buyouts. Until this process has completed, Bass Pro has no financial motivation to invest in maintaining and upgrading or even supplying inventory to Cabela's stores they have targeted for permanent closure.
 
I stopped at a Cabela's Monday (bowling green KY) on a work trip, they had a shelf full of WWB .223 and .308. I think there might have been some 7.62x39 as well but I don't recall the manufacturer. There was a smattering of .22 cal and .30 cal bullets as well as some .357 too.
 
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