Ammo run? Availability? Buying stock-ups?

[seeker_two]

I'm good on ammo, hookers, and blow. Do need new gym shoes, though.....

 

[IXLR8]

If SHTF it sounds like you are ready to barter…

 

[Texan79423]

Back in the shortage days my LGS called wanting to buy a pallet load back from me.

 

[dsgrey]

Stocked up for years. Usually in election years, prices go up and it's the worst time to buy though it seems to apply more when we have a republican president in office that could lose to a democrat. Since FJB is already in office, maybe that's the difference or possibly nobody believes he'll win.

 

[Bad Hombre]

Ammo prices are dropping dramatically.

Everything is plentiful right now.

What are you talking about?!

Well, ammo prices are in no way "dropping dramatically" !

But they are certainly not going up. !

 

[majormadmax]

You can only have too much ammo if you're swimming or on fire!

Of course, after headlines like "Trump shooter bought 50 rounds of ammo hours before assassination attempt" which "Senior law enforcement officials" claimed was "a large amount;" or if Biden wins the election, things could get slim pickings like the did when Obama was first elected (I still have ammo stocked from them).

By it cheap and stack it deep!

 

[DaBull]

Stocked up for years. Usually in election years, prices go up and it's the worst time to buy though it seems to apply more when we have a republican president in office that could lose to a democrat. Since FJB is already in office, maybe that's the difference or possibly nobody believes he'll win.

I would say prices rise during elections when Democrats are expected to do well. It appears ammo buyers do not think this election will be a problem.

 

[Dawico]

You guys still need ammo?

 

[baboon]

I'm good on ammo, hookers, and blow. Do need new gym shoes, though.....

I would think you will be able to pick and choose on some slightly used kicks once TSHTF. Stacking their dead bodies (using a tractor of course) into a wall for the buzzards to feed on will reveal Antifa, BLM, D.U. and imbibes for Palestine all have nice new gym shoes. Y ou know how they love to enter high end stores and help themselves.

 

[seeker_two]

I would think you will be able to pick and choose on some slightly used kicks once TSHTF. Stacking their dead bodies (using a tractor of course) into a wall for the buzzards to feed on will reveal Antifa, BLM, D.U. and imbibes for Palestine all have nice new gym shoes. Y ou know how they love to enter high end stores and help themselves.

Some things I just don't buy used.....

....however, if you know where I can find a slightly used DPMS rifle.....

 

[TexMex247]

Prices are actually pretty decent right now across the board. Definitely not pre-pandemic but also not sky high. Since I reload I don't sweat it much. I've spent this last year investing in metals...brass, lead and copper. I've probably got enough primers stacked away to cruise through a few decades of reloading but I'm also not a high volume shooter of late.

I would advise buying now at affordable prices. What's coming around the corner will not be good for the civilian ammo market. The world's top producer of gun cotton is China(30+% world supply) and they cut us and the Europeans off at the beginning of the year. Aka nitrocellulose it's absolutely critical to make gunpowder. I think US manufacturers are running on borrowed time. The bottle neck will inevitably send prices sky high going into 2025 and it will have nothing to do with the winner of the election.

Already Alliant powders are in short supply and what's out there is double or triple what it cost just a few years ago. It will price new reloaders out of it before they even start. A pound of RE15 sells for $100 if you're lucky. That pound will load you about 140 rounds so it's creeping towards $1/shot just for the powder. Once you add a projectile and primer you're screwed at today's prices. Other top choices for calibers like 6.5 creedmor(H4350) are already $80/lb before ship and hazmat.

I'm not trying to encite the panic buying but if you have the means, don't hesitate. When 223 shot up to 60cpr a bunch of people here thought they could wait it out, I predicted 50cpr as the new norm and I haven't been proven wrong. I'm not saying we're going back to $1/Rd 223 but I wouldn't be surprised either. It's on the horizon with rough seas ahead gentlemen.

 

[HelotesChaparral]

RE15 is discontinued.

Hodgdon Trail Boss is discontinued. That is why the price is so high.

There is no gunpowder shortage.

There is no nitrocellulose shortage.

Ammo prices are dropping rapidly. Good Winchester FMJ practice ammo is .16c/round vs .34c/round pre covid.

Just a bunch of fear-mongering morons trying to drive up prices because they sell ammo and reloading supplies at gun shows.

 

[cbp210]

I have been stocking up my ammo since Y2K. The only ammo I have been burning like crazy is my 12 gauge target loads for obvious reasons and 9mm but I have several boxes for free a month from my employer.

 

[TexMex247]

Well it's true back in January a tech with Alliant responded to an email, saying demand is high but they are still manufacturing regularly. He said they have no control beyond initial distribution. So it's possible it's out there but there was no word of reloader 15 being discontinued. My inquiry was specifically about that powder. Of course that was in January.

Care to share where you're getting that Winchester at $8/box Helotes, I'd love to know and stock up. Best deals I've seen are at $12/box or 24cpr.

 

[PinnedandRecessed]

Winchester at $8/box Helotes

Yes, do tell.

Best I've seen is $10/box for Monarch steel cased.

 

[TexnJpr]

I’m pretty stocked up but am always looking for “deals” and purchase when I find them. Don’t want to be caught saying I should’ve bought more when it was cheaper because it likely will never get cheaper. If anything the price will rise with inflation.

 

[kpg4923]

I could probably never by another cartridge and not shoot half of what I have. But for every cartridge I shoot I buy ten more right now. When my mother died I inherited a bunch or furniture and silverware. My kids are going to get guns and ammo.

Prices on hunting ammo have fallen dramatically. Loaded Barnes/Nosler/Berger stuff is cheaper than it has been in years. And not Academy has 9mm every day for $12.99 a box of 50 and $59.99 for a box of 250. That is 10% cheaper than their every day prices just a couple of months ago.

 

[popper]

My ammo shelf is sagging.

 

[KTXdm9]

Availability seems pretty good. Prices are okay, considering how much inflation has impacted everything. I miss the days of sub-$200 cases of 9mm.

 

[Txdweeb]

I try to stock up during summer months since I don’t shoot as much but fall to spring I go thru it. I’ve had no problem with availability even in the one antiquated cartridge I have a jump on the free shipping deals.