Ammo Is Scarce And Prices Are Insane: Is Hunting Season In Trouble?

19FortyFive ^ | 9/3/2021 | Peter Suciu

[Onthebrink]

“The ammunition problem isn’t new. It’s been a market factor for well over a year and is rooted in the extraordinarily high number of firearms that were sold over the past 18 months,” the trade lobby group for the firearms industry added. “Firearm sales skyrocketed starting in March 2020 and set an all-time high record that year, topping out at 21 million background checks for the sale of a gun. NSSF surveys revealed that 40 percent of those sales were for first-time gun buyers, an injection of over 8.4 million new owners. That pace hasn’t slowed, and through August of 2021 there were another 12.4 million background checks for gun sales, easily outpacing 2019 and 2018.”

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Is Hunting Season In Trouble?

The murderers in Chicago will find plenty of ammunition and guns. It's what they do.

[fireman15]

I sold some of my reloading equipment on eBay earlier this year... a couple presses, quite a few molds, dies and other equipment. It was a little insane... none of it was available from the usual suppliers and mostly still is not. I assumed things would be getting back to normal for this stuff by now. But it has mostly gotten worse.

[laplata]

That’s actually a dumb headline.

[King_Corey]

Don’t know who wrote this, but there is ammo out there. You just gotta “HUNT” :P

[DOC44]

old real hunter still have a box or two laying around of ammo and a quiver or two full of arrows.... I know this is understated.

[Carriage Hill]

Plenty of ammo around...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=liberty+ammo
http://www.armslist.com/
http://www.sgammo.com/
http://www.brownells.com/search/index.htm?k=shurefire+magazines&ksubmit=y
http://www.ammoman.com/
http://www.federalpremium.com/default.aspx
http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/
http://www.corbon.com/
http://www.doubletapammo.com/php/catalog/index.php
http://www.hksspeedloaders.com/Index.html
http://www.luckygunner.com/
http://www.shopalexanderarms.com/.50_Beowulf-Ammunition.html
http://wilsoncombat.com/new/default.asp
http://shop.ammocanmagnets.com/50-cal-size-Black-Font_c11.htm
http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.aspx?item=XCanM2A1&name=New+Mil.+Spec.+M2A1+.50cal+Ammo+Cans&groupid=614
http://www.impactguns.com/nemo-omen-300-win-match-rifle-omen-match.aspx
http://www.gunbot.net/
http://www.theboxotruth.com/#13519954922231&ifh=44
http://www.black-hills.com/
http://www.hornady.com/
http://www.nosler.com/
http://ammoseek.com/
http://www.outbackammo.com.au/
http://www.freedommunitions.com/
http://www.bulkammo.com/
http://ammo.net/
http://www.surefire.com/tactical-equipment/high-capacity-magazines.html
http://www.cabelas.com/ghome.jsp?WT.srch=1&WT.tsrc=PPC&WT.mc_id=google%7CHamburg+PA_Brand%7CUSA&rid=20&WT.z_mc_id1=43000000131123705&pcrid=13985066839&gclid=CNHYws7x57gCFUui4AodMlAAKw&gclsrc=aw.ds
http://www.maglula.com/
https://www.buffalobore.com/
http://www.barnesbullets.com/
http://www.doubletapammo.net/
http://www.grafs.com/retail/index/index
http://www.midwayusa.com/
http://www.natchezss.com/
http://gun-deals.com/ammo
http://www.lehighdefense.com/index.php/shop/ammunition/controlled-chaos/102/300-whisper-high-velocity-controlled-chaos-detail
http://www.ammunitiondepot.com/Liberty-Civil-Defense-45-ACP-78-Gr-Lead-Free-Ammo-p/liberty45.htm
http://www.brownells.com/magazines/rifle-magazines/magazines/ar-15-m16-60-100-round-magazines-prod42026.aspx
http://libertyammunition.com/
http://www.vetmadeammo.net/home.html
https://getmyammo.com/
https://doubletapammo.com/
https://www.ammunitiontogo.com/
https://www.sgammo.com/product/federal-ammo-sale/500-round-case-45-acp-auto-federal-american-eagle-230-grain-fmj-ae45a100-l
https://gundigest.com/gear-ammo/ammunition/fading-away-the-45-acp-isnt-going-anywhere
https://bulkmunitions.com/
https://libertyammo.com/
http://ammo.com/
http://www.freedommunitions.com/Pallet-Ammo-s/55280.htm#
https://ammo.com/
https://fenixammo.com/collections/frangible-ammo-remanufactured

[sten]

i heard the biden admin stopped the import of Russian ammo which accounts for 40% of the ammo sold in the US

sounds like a great business opportunity for a US based ammo manufacturer

thoughts?

[stevem]

I was recently in my first trap and skeet competition in about 40 years. The entire team was in charge of finding ammunition for the team. We all failed miserably for at least a couple of weeks.

Two days before the competition I located some at a large servicing store that wasn't too far away. It cost about 2.5 X what Federal would normally be. I bought enough for the team.

One of the other team members found some the day before that was just over 2 X Federal's normal price.

We both noticed neither store really had time to put the ammo on the shelves before it was gone.

These were target loads. I noticed the same among the usual ammo suspects for plugs, all buck variations, and birdshot.

The same is true with every handgun persuasion. Demand has outpaced supply.

[metmom]

I’ve seen more ammo available in the last couple months than I have in the past year before that.

And prices are down, too.

[CodeToad]

Obviously written by a liberal moron and not a hunter.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

They halted issue of new import licensing, the current ones are still good to go for another 2 years for current contracts.

 

 

[glimmerman70]

I have a rural king in my town. They have ammo but prices are crazy. The affordable stuff goes quick. Some is insane. We are talking they had a whole pallet of 22 LR but a box of 50 count was 8.99. They had to drop it to 6.99 to sell it. You can’t find .45 acp or LC. Plenty of 223 or 308 but crazy prices. Found a few boxes left of 9mm for 14.99. The rest was 23 bucks a box.

[Sirius Lee]

No ammo? No problem.

[Dr. Pritchett]

“ rooted in the extraordinarily high number of firearms that were sold over the past 18 months”

Personally, I don’t believe this is the case. It just doesn’t smell right to me. For the last 20 years we had an overseas war, a robust military, and the FEDGOV LEOs, buying by the ton. The long term trope has been that normal people but guns, but never really go out to shoot. Now that the GWOT is over, the cops are defunded, and the FEDGOV doesn’t seem to be disrupting the supply. I don’t believe that a couple million first time buyers are training like they should be all of a sudden. The regulars have been hoarding ammo forever. So, I just don’t believe it.

[A Cyrenian]

great post.

Thanks.

[TexasM1A]

I have a couple of friends that could retire quite comfortably if they sold just half of the ammunition that that have acquired over the years at today’s prices.

But if most hunters are like the guys/gals I know, they are not experiencing any shortages..

[tlozo]

Silly headline, how many rounds do you need to sight in, hunt?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I know how you can get almost unlimited ammo and for free: Just say you joined the Taliban, Biden will even throw you Blackhawk helicopters

[larrytown]

Exactly - hunting ammo really isn’t the problem. The p*ss-poor selection is lamentable - made more irksome by the endless advertising and youtube personalities pushing some wunder-loading.

“It’s great!” (but you won’t see it on a shelf for years...)