Hardware Discussion => Ammunition => Topic started by: KingGlamis on February 28, 2021, 08:18:28 pm
Title: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: KingGlamis on February 28, 2021, 08:18:28 pm
Today Bass Pro had a bunch of different calibers on the shelf at normal prices and I have seen several local gun stores restocking their shelves with ammo. It's too early to tell if this is a long term good thing but so far it looks like it is a good thing. I also noticed the prices have come down on Ammoseek and the availability has gone up. Keeping my fingers crossed...
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: Jagen on February 28, 2021, 08:50:53 pm
I'd love to believe and agree with you, but it still remains slim-pickins here in Tucson. Most shops are limiting purchases to one box per caliber and that's assuming they have anything at all.
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: iflyskyhigh on March 01, 2021, 07:32:23 am
They turned the ammo shelving at Scottsdale Gun Club into a clothing rack...
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: 68350 on March 01, 2021, 03:34:08 pm
Today Bass Pro had a bunch of different calibers on the shelf at normal prices ............
Not much there this afternoon. Looking for 9mm FMJ rounds, only found a small pile of JHP 150gr ammo. Small pile of 10mm and a couple other calibers, low qty's. Checkout dude says there always a long line waiting to get in early before opening.
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: alexcorona034 on March 01, 2021, 06:10:43 pm
yesterday Cabelas had boxes of 150 rounds of 5.56 they ran out in 1 hour, I the limit was 2 per customer
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Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: Dullahan on March 01, 2021, 07:42:21 pm
I found 13 boxes of 7.62 Tokarov ammo last Thurs for $21 a box. Pretty happy about that since I'd been looking for months.
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: Casswick on March 04, 2021, 11:00:23 pm
Ive been scoring 9mm lately when it was impossible a few months ago.
I started a Telegram channel "Phoenix Ammo Trolls", @phoenixammo . Look it up and join, we can give notifications of where has ammo in stock.
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: Rusty Young Man on March 06, 2021, 01:30:03 pm
Glad to hear more ammo is trickling out onto store shelves.
Haven't personally seen much in the form of critical reloading components (mostly referring to primers).
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: KingGlamis on March 06, 2021, 07:02:29 pm
Yesterday my local gun store let me buy four boxes of ammo instead of the usual one per day. Life is almost back to normal. LOL
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: Mr. Nobody on March 06, 2021, 07:53:24 pm
Glad to be seeing this.
I get daily sales emails from some gun websites, and I'm seeing prices coming down back to earth a little as well.
Looks like we are moving in the right direction, finally...
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: armoredman on March 11, 2021, 04:52:51 pm
I stopped at a local pawnshop and they had all kinds of ammo. I almost bought some UNTIL...imagine a box of 20 Winchester White Box FMJ 55gr .223 going for $24.99? Seriously. 50 rounds of generic 22lr for $9.99. I smiled and thanked them for their time - I use them all the time for transfers since they have the cheapest transfers anywhere, and P-Mags are very reasonable, but wow. Now if I could just find PRIMERS....
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: iflyskyhigh on March 11, 2021, 06:45:05 pm
Scottsdale Gun Club had cases of PMC 115 FMJ for $998. No member discount. Thank god for Mike Dillon.
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Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: hudsguns on March 21, 2021, 06:19:35 am
I saw this yesterday at Scottsdale gun club, available & pricey!
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: zpglass on March 21, 2021, 12:03:07 pm
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: Marx-ism's on March 22, 2021, 02:58:28 pm
The problem with our slowly improving ammo resources seems, at least to me, to be only a partial victory. Ammo pricing is still fuggen outrageous.
The most recent case of PMC 9mm I purchased last year cost me about $350, or 35 cents per round. In the last ad I saw from SGC, pricing for a 1000 round case of PMC was listed for $970, or 97 cents per round. That is still thoroughly and utterly ridiculous pricing. :cursing
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: Mr. Nobody on March 22, 2021, 09:31:03 pm
I saw this yesterday at Scottsdale gun club, available & pricey!
They're absolutely nuts... the bastards should bust open the boxes and part it out so it actually sells instead of sitting there... that's a lot that could go around on that pallet, by single boxes.
The problem with our slowly improving ammo resources seems, at least to me, to be only a partial victory. Ammo pricing is still fuggen outrageous.
The most recent case of PMC 9mm I purchased last year cost me about $350, or 35 cents per round. In the last ad I saw from SGC, pricing for a 1000 round case of PMC was listed for $970, or 97 cents per round. That is still thoroughly and utterly ridiculous pricing. :cursing
I agree.
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: 5632 on March 23, 2021, 07:49:51 am
We may be luckily to even be able to even buy ammo. If you want it, buy it. If you don't want it, don't buy it.
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: DClayton on March 23, 2021, 08:15:19 am
update, I back ordered 1000 rounds of 5.56 in November from Optics Planet. Got an email yesterday that they had it in stock and to let them know if I still wanted it.
GOT IT AT NOVEMBER PRICES!!!!!
Which still sucks compared to what it used to be but half the price of scalpers on Armslist
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: zpglass on March 23, 2021, 11:19:51 am
update, I back ordered 1000 rounds of 5.56 in November from Optics Planet. Got an email yesterday that they had it in stock and to let them know if I still wanted it.
GOT IT AT NOVEMBER PRICES!!!!!
Which still sucks compared to what it used to be but half the price of scalpers on Armslist
Its outrageous. Feel like forced panic buying.
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Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: zpglass on March 24, 2021, 09:16:10 pm
I bought some CCI 22LR from Sportsmans Warehouse . The pissy kid tells me I can only buy one since it was 100 rounds. Since when is 100 rounds buying bulk?!
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Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: Casswick on March 24, 2021, 10:19:37 pm
I bought some CCI 22LR from Sportsmans Warehouse . The pissy kid tells me I can only buy one since it was 100 rounds. Since when is 100 rounds buying bulk?!
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Since we gave pissy kids the power to tell grown men to wear masks.
Title: Re: Ammo availability is getting better
Post by: zpglass on March 25, 2021, 07:27:07 am
I bought some CCI 22LR from Sportsmans Warehouse . The pissy kid tells me I can only buy one since it was 100 rounds. Since when is 100 rounds buying bulk?!
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:rotfl
These little ass hats... replace them with robot self checkouts or older people who can appreciate working with and around guns and ammo. I can't stand it.
100 rounds isn't bulk at all.
I once had a 454 Ruger Toklat a few years ago now. Hell of a gun. No real reason to have it other than wanted it... so I went to Cabela's and picked up various rounds... the little pissy weenie armed smart ass behind the counter looks at the box and it specified "Bear Loads". He goes very shitty, "You expecting to be attacked by bears in Phoenix?" (Now I can take a joke and love joking around but he said it like an asshole, with no hint of joking). So I told him, "well it works on sarcastic assholes too." The rest of that transaction was silent from there on. I say screw the little pissants. Most of them seem utterly useless. Many I've come across in these stores don't seem to be shooters or the outdoors types.