Ammo supply good in your ‘hood?

[Redthies]

How are ammo stocks where you folks live? It’s getting to be slim pickens near me. I’m not running low by any means, but when I go to buy some .357 or .30-30 you only get two choices... Take it, or leave it!

[GunnyGene]

Comparatively speaking, availability is slightly better than it was 3 months ago, but not even close to what it was a year ago. And prices are up across the board, sometimes significantly higher.

[GFK]

Well, at least you get a choice. I see empty shelves. Maybe, I would fair better in a bigger city or different part of the Country. But for now, I am good.

[Hatchdog]

I made a three store tour for components yesterday and just for fun looked at the ammo shelves. A box or two here and there of low demand calibers but mostly nothing, One store did have some PPU 30-30 150 grain which surprised me. But for the most part, very empty shelves.

[RanchRoper]

I won't need any for quite a while but looks a little thin everywhere.

[Vaquero]

I can't say about around here as I've not been in a gun shop or sporting goods store in the past 2 mons or longer.

Monday I believe it was, I went by WW for a couple things for the wife. I walked by the sporting goods dept. all they had was a few, and I mean very few boxes of 12 ga shotgun shells. That was it.

RP

[RanchRoper]

Actually just scored 1000 primers at the local hardware store.

[RanchRoper]

The local store where I got the primers this morning had more as well. Didn't want to clean them out...today. But the wrath of my bank card is about to descend upon them this week...Looks like nobody buys large pistol primers around here. Until now...

[fortyshooter]

Stopped by my LGS around noon and placed filled with folks looking around and some buying guns. Was a small batch of 9mm ammo but that was about it. No primers of course but I did buy the last two boxes of those 45 200 gr. FTX bullets. Used up my gift card and kicked in 20 bucks.
Oh and no .22 ammo on the shelves either!

[RanchRoper]

The primers I bought today are Federal. Never used them before. Always use Winchester ones. The other ones they had were CCI.

[Rifletom]

RR, you folks up North have more primer availability than here. Count your blessings. Those Federals are fine, as are the CCI's. You done good cowboy.

[fortyshooter]

The primers I bought today are Federal. Never used them before. Always use Winchester ones. The other ones they had were CCI.

Oh no not those Federal things that fail to go off....you can send those to me for disposal!

[RanchRoper]

In the mail...

[RanchRoper]

RR, you folks up North have more primer availability than here. Count your blessings. Those Federals are fine, as are the CCI's. You done good cowboy.

I think ours come from down south so once they are gone that’s it for awhile.

[BigAl52]

No ammo or component normality here and wont be for a longtime to come. But theres no normality here now anyway

[bandit1250]

No ammo or component normality here and wont be for a longtime to come. But theres no normality here now anyway

If we think it is bad now, "We ain't seen nothin' yet!

[RanchRoper]

That's for sure.

[GunnyGene]

No ammo or component normality here and wont be for a longtime to come. But theres no normality here now anyway

If we think it is bad now, "We ain't seen nothin' yet!

Ammo companies are giving fair warning of price hikes beginning in April of 3 to 15% across all product lines. This from J. Vanderbrink, President of Ammunition for Vista Outdoor corp. His customers are the distributors, not you and me, so count on the retailers to add a couple more % to the consumer price. Yeah, it really does flow downhill.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/202 ... mmunition/

Dear Customer:

Thank you for your business and for your continued support of American manufacturing. We have hired hundreds of people over the last 12 months and invested millions of dollars to produce more ammunition to meet our customer and consumer needs. During this year we have seen significant increases in raw material prices such as copper, zinc, and lead. Additionally, increases in labor and health care have exceeded our projections as the COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all.

Effective 4/1/2021 Federal, Remington, CCI, and SPEER ammunition will take a price increase of 3-15% across all products from our last price list. Unless you notify us to cancel an order, we will reprice all existing and future orders shipped on or after 4/1/2021 to the new 4/1 prices.

You will receive your finalized price list no later than February 19th.

Thank you for your continued support of our brands and our American workforce.

Jason R. Vanderbrink
President Ammunition

[CT_Shooter]

...there's no normality here now anyway.

I have to agree. With 4000+ people in the U.S. dying from Covid each day and hospitals and morgues filled to capacity and our medical personnel overwhelmed and exhausted, and with a clearly inadequate distribution of effective Covid vaccines, and with food banks struggling to meet the needs of millions of families, and with an angry mob of insurgents invading and vandalizing the Nation's Capitol and threatening the Constitutional process for the first time ever; Yup! It's not normal. Nothing is normal. As Dorothy Gale said, "We're not in Kansas anymore."

If we survive everything else, we will have access to ammo again. Eventually, it will return to local inventories, but, as Gunny notes, it will certainly cost more than it ever has and it will be slow in coming. I'm fortunate that I have more than I'll need for quite a long time.

[GunnyGene]

...there's no normality here now anyway.

I have to agree. With 4000+ people in the U.S. dying from Covid each day and hospitals and morgues filled to capacity and our medical personnel overwhelmed and exhausted, and with a clearly inadequate distribution of effective Covid vaccines, and with food banks struggling to meet the needs of millions of families, and with an angry mob of insurgents invading and vandalizing the Nation's Capitol and threatening the Constitutional process for the first time ever; Yup! It's not normal. Nothing is normal. As Dorothy Gale said, "We're not in Kansas anymore."

If we survive everything else, we will have access to ammo again. Eventually, it will return to local inventories, but, as Gunny notes, it will certainly cost more than it ever has and it will be slow in coming. I'm fortunate that I have more than I'll need for quite a long time.

I bought handgun today at the AFB PX near me, and it was quite interesting that they had more handguns in the large display counter (which was plum full) than they had boxes of ammo on the shelf behind the counter. They were even out of snap caps.