Where has all the ammo gone?
Partner and I got out of bed early and got into line at Cabelas yesterday to get our mitts on some 22 ammo.
Unfortunatley we were about 180 in liune and they ran out at about 150. I didn’t feel too bad, though, there were about another 200 behind US. Plus those who showed at nine thinking there might be something left, poor suckers. From doors open till no ammo took about six minutes.
Went to a local small shop we frequent, who told us they get some on a regular basis and we just had to call in and ask. No bulk, though, just the boxed stuff.
Mostly I know people who call and say “Oh, I just got 10,000 rounds of Federal” this from people who never bout a thousand rounds at a time in their lives.
I can’t wait for wingnuthead to leave office, and for people to stop hoarding ammo like it was food.
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Have you checked to see if you can pay in advance for a box and have them hold it for you? There are a couple of the local gun stores that will do that down here. I lucked out and got a brick a couple weeks back. For the life of me I can’t figure out the reasoning behind the shortage.
Og, I don’t see it stopping anytime soon… WAY too many people on edge, and afraid to use the hoarded ammo in x caliber… I have 5000 rounds on order that ‘may’ get delivered in three years… sigh
Happened at Dundee Cabela’s Saturday.
That ammo immediately went to gun show shelves at a markup.
If the damned dirty government would quit trying to corner the market on ordnance, supply would be there and prices would drop. But their presses are authorized to print Reserve notes and ours aren’t, so there you go.
“If the damned dirty government would quit trying to corner the market on ordnance…”
*rolleyes*
Aliens!
The problem is, of course, one with multiple parts, but the two primary ones are:
1) Lots and lots of new gun owners, and
2) Up until very recently, most gun owners didn’t keep hardly any ammo on hand, any more than they had their own gas pumps at home for their motorcycles or snowmobiles. When they wanted to take the fun toys to the range once a quarter, they’d stop at the gun store on the way and buy a couple boxes of shells and go shoot them up. I wish I could remember where the statistic was to link it, but even using conservative estimates of the numbers, if every American gun owner went out and bought a hundred rounds of .22, that would soak up the entire year’s domestic production.
Damned hoarders. I wish they would leave the hoarding to us hoarders!
“I wish they would leave the hoarding to us hoarders!”
We should get our own reality show.
Ammo Hoarders.
Election night, Nov ’12, I immediately ordered, and received, a full case of Federal 40 gr. .22 lr.
What was coming was so very predictable. The good news was, I was already fairly heavy in other calibers.
So, the difference for me now is, I’m not shooting nearly as often, and with reduced round counts at each outing.
I was hoarding, before hoarding was cool.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
I’m pretty much like Jim, ammo wise. Lotsa .22 LR acqured befor the Fauxbama regime took over, augmented by buying several tens of thousands of Wolf primers while they were dirt cheap and available. I already had many K’s of brass in the fifteen calibers I load for and still scrounge the ground at any shooting site I go to. The steel empties go into the trash at home, the reloadables go into the dirty reloadable bin. Lead alloy wheelweights are still coming off wheels and remain available for the asking, so I’m okay as far as shooting goes. I have sufficient loaded ammo to last me five years, and components for another ten or fifteen if I can’t find any more. Fortunately, suppliers near me have some primers available from time to time. So I’m in good shape until I’m 94. If, of course, I make it that long and don’t forget my name or where I live.
Is cheaperthandirt dot com a reliable source?
Yes, Liz, I buy stuff from them a lot. They don’t have any stock on anything either- I have match ammo, but I want bulk, plinking ammo.
Og,
“Damned hoarders. I wish they would leave the hoarding to us hoarders! ”
Who said that? Damned straw men! :p
roflmao.
For all the weird speculation you see on the gunternet, it’s really very simple at its base: “It’s harder to buy ammo because more people are trying to buy ammo.”
(Interesting thing I’ve heard from multiple in-industry sources in recent months is that, at least for many years, the cheap .22LR bulk range fodder we’ve all been enjoying has been selling at break-even, if not outright loss-leader prices for the ammo companies. I’m pretty sure that the price equilibrium we’re slowly working towards now will be the new normal, and will more accurately reflect costs, at least for the foreseeable future.)
I see a lot more kids shooting pellet guns, which I like a lot.
I am hoarding pellets.
I get them from rabbits.
Yeah, you can, but you have to clean your guns more often.