Holy Chit!

Wizard · August 10, 2021, 06:43:14 PM

With my health problems, I hadn't been to my shooting club in almost 2 years. It has always had the lowest ammo prices in the St. Louis area. Two years ago, .45 ammo sold for
$18.50 for box of 50. .A box of .380 was $19.50. As of yesterday, .45 was $48 for box of 50 and .380 was selling for $69 for 1 box of 50 rounds. Holy Chit!

Wizard

Princeton_Man · August 10, 2021, 08:04:26 PM

Quote from: Wizard on August 10, 2021, 06:43:14 PM
With my health problems, I hadn't been to my shooting club in almost 2 years. It has always had the lowest ammo prices in the St. Louis area. Two years ago, .45 ammo sold for
$18.50 for box of 50. .A box of .380 was $19.50. As of yesterday, .45 was $48 for box of 50 and .380 was selling for $69 for 1 box of 50 rounds. Holy Chit!

Wizard

Yup, that's about what Natchez and Brownells has advertised. Slow consumer response and increasing availability is helping to bring prices down. I haven't purchased any ammo in quite some time, I refuse to pay those kinds of prices as long as my reloading supplies hold out.

Wizard · August 11, 2021, 04:35:27 PM

Thanks for the conformation. I thought I'd finally gone over the edge. Even during the war you could find reasonably priced ammo.

Wizard

Donald Garner · August 11, 2021, 04:44:41 PM

Ammo around here (Central Texas) is expensive and you can only purchase so many boxes like maybe ( 2 ) per type.

Princeton_Man · August 11, 2021, 04:53:17 PM

It's mostly due to new gun owners who stocked up on ammo with their purchases beginning in March 2020 and compounded by hoarders. Reloading components also dwindled away. Bullets and some powders are showing back up on shelves, but primers are still in very short supply, mostly due to ammunition manufacturers needing the same primers. The ammunition plants have been working double overtime shifts since early last year, but like every other employer, they had their share of people who were "too scared to work" due to the virus as well as employees out with the virus.

Like I said earlier, things are getting better.

SHC286 · August 14, 2021, 12:06:05 AM

I've got a couple buckets of 9 ball, a few hundred 9 ARX, a few thousand rounds of 7.62X39, not even sure on .22lr but it's quite a bit, and enough supplies to reload .44 magnum probably for the rest of my life at the amount I shoot right now. Then there's the bows. A few dozen arrows that are of course reusable.

This is all accumulated in small purchases. With the ammo I don't reload, I buy double what I plan to shoot when I go to the range. If I plan to shoot 100 rounds, I buy two hundred and put the extra away. If I'm breaking out the hand cannon, I'll buy a 50 round box and some more reloading supplies.

Princeton_Man · August 14, 2021, 05:12:05 AM

I've rarely bought off the store shelves in the past decade or so. I'll usually make a quantity purchase about once or twice a year to replenish, but I only do that when the price is right. I go through more reloads than I do factory ammo, so my supply of factory stuff usually grows a little each year, but I haven't purchased anything in the past year and until prices get reasonable I probably wont.

WTodd · August 14, 2021, 05:53:33 AM

All of ammo shortages began in 2008 when Obama took office and gun control was all the rage. I've said this many times but Obama was the greatest gun salesman of all time and now Biden is taking up that legacy and when you sell guns you sell ammo.

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Deadeye · August 14, 2021, 06:50:25 AM

Quote from: WTodd on August 14, 2021, 05:53:33 AM
All of ammo shortages began in 2008 when Obama took office and gun control was all the rage. I've said this many times but Obama was the greatest gun salesman of all time and now Biden is taking up that legacy and when you sell guns you sell ammo.

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My old boss at the Sporting Goods Store used to say Obama was the best Gun Salesman he'd ever seen.

We had guys waiting on Delivery Day to see what née Guns we got in. Sold a bunch before we even got them unpacked.

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apenland01 · August 14, 2021, 08:40:34 PM

Ammo prices are nearly irrelevant here, all the cases are empty. Went to a shop today and all they had were a few boxes of .22 rounds...

coldfront · August 15, 2021, 02:58:20 AM

Quote from: Wizard on August 11, 2021, 04:35:27 PM
Thanks for the conformation. I thought I'd finally gone over the edge. Even during the war you could find reasonably priced ammo.

Wizard

don't know if you've been watching recently Wizard. might have to drop 'reasonable' from the language.

Wizard · August 15, 2021, 11:22:15 AM

I have enough ammo to supply a third world nation. However, it is all "juiced" and can't be used at the range. It is Swiss military surplus.

Wizard