Ammo supply good in your ‘hood?

[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.

[JVogler]

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

I bought Federal primers back in March when CCI were not available. Some one posted on Ruger Forum that they are "softer" than the " harder" CCI brand. I have not had a problem at all with the Federal, I only use small pistol primers.

[RanchRoper]

Well hopefully they all go bang.

The store also had quite a bit of powder including Unique. Might just check that out too. I have lots of Universal powder.

[fortyshooter]

2021 is going to be a bad year again from what I have seen so far...buckle up!

[RanchRoper]

No worries, what's a few months lockdowns between friends? Think how clean your guns will be...

[Hatchdog]

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

I bought Federal primers back in March when CCI were not available. Some one posted on Ruger Forum that they are "softer" than the " harder" CCI brand. I have not had a problem at all with the Federal, I only use small pistol primers.

Interesting new discovery on Federal primers.

I just bought a new Lee Auto-Prime (hand held priming tool) and this is the 3rd generation of this tool. In the instructions Lee noted not to use it with Federal primers as there have been some detonations doing so. I have owned both of the earlier generations of the Auto-Prime and have loaded lots and lots of Federal primers in them without ever having a problem. Not sure if this caution is due to the new design of the tool or the primers??? Anyway, unless you’re loading for a semi-auto rifle I don’t think you have anything to worry about.

[RanchRoper]

1600 CCI primers just got a new home:)

[RanchRoper]

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

I bought Federal primers back in March when CCI were not available. Some one posted on Ruger Forum that they are "softer" than the " harder" CCI brand. I have not had a problem at all with the Federal, I only use small pistol primers.

Interesting new discovery on Federal primers.

I just bought a new Lee Auto-Prime (hand held priming tool) and this is the 3rd generation of this tool. In the instructions Lee noted not to use it with Federal primers as there have been some detonations doing so. I have owned both of the earlier generations of the Auto-Prime and have loaded lots and lots of Federal primers in them without ever having a problem. Not sure if this caution is due to the new design of the tool or the primers??? Anyway, unless you’re loading for a semi-auto rifle I don’t think you have anything to worry about.

Thanks for the heads up....I will be mindful of this....

[Steve51]

Nothing available in my neck of the woods.
No centerfire or rimfire ammo except .17
No powder, primers, or brass
No revolvers (except .22 with fixed sights)
No rifles
A few shotguns
A few semi auto compact pistols
VERY, VERY DRY AROUND HERE!

[GunnyGene]

Nothing available in my neck of the woods.
No centerfire or rimfire ammo except .17
No powder, primers, or brass
No revolvers (except .22 with fixed sights)
No rifles
A few shotguns
A few semi auto compact pistols
VERY, VERY DRY AROUND HERE!

I just don't get it. Seems like practically everywhere is starving for guns and ammo except MS. Or at least up in my part of MS. Maybe it's because we only have about 3 million people (including kids) in the whole state and most folks already have 1 or more guns and don't see any pressing need to buy more. We do have some minor shortages of some ammo, but there's no shortage of firearms (of any kind) for sale in local gun and pawn shops.

[BigAl52]

Just bought 25Lbs of 2FG black powder and 2000 # 11 caps Im ready to make some smoke.