Posted on 05/25/2009 11:50:55 AM PDT by davetex
Has anyone had any luck finding ammo?
Any ideas?
I’ve heard some individual vendors at gun shows have been stocked well. Good luck.
Try online but most are backordered. Ammoman.com, Sportsman’s Guide, Cheaper than Dirt to name a few.
Your neighbor’s basement?
Now there’s a thought.
If you are just starting to look now you are too late. Whatever you find will be expensive or on backorder. If you reload primers are almost non-existant.
We were in the Cedar Park Academy on Sunday looking for pistol ammo.
NADA! The shelves were completely empty.
Academy gets deliveries on M-W-F. Be there when they open at 8:30. Won’t last long.
I don’t understand this. Why would ammo be understocked? I understand people buying more, but then why wouldn’t manufacturers, who only stand to make more money, make more?
Ammunition and reloader supply manufacters should be running 24/7.Are they?
wolfcreek, great tip! I didn’t know that, and have been going at the wrong times. I usually hit the one in Round Rock on Sundays. No wonder.
Extra tacos and menudo too.
Yo tambien - Si
I think manufacturers are running wide open right now, but folks are hoarding, buying as much as they can, as fast as they can.
Ammo companies are working 24/7 to meet current demand.
Why?
The lack of ammo is kind of a self fulfilling prophecy. I was at one gun collectors web site a few days ago where a guy told the story of going to a local hardware store and found 13 small 50rd. boxes of .22 long rifle for sale at $1.99 per box. He scooped up ten boxes and went to pay, and then said, “gee, why don’t I also go get the last 3 boxes” which he did. Did he need the last 3 boxes? Most likely not, but they were there. So some other poor guy who might have wanted to take his kid out for a little plinking won’t get the chance, because one guy is sitting on all the ammo the store had. Its happening all over the U.S. I have a S—t load of ammo, but bought it way before there was any shortages, so I don’t feel guilty.
FYI - BO (you remember el Presidente)?
He passed a Presidential Decree about 3 - 4 weeks ago that prevented the Military from reselling their brass which is a very important source for ammo manufacturers.
The expensive part of manufacturing ammo is the making of the brass (which can be used over and over and over again).
The Military now has to shred any spent cartridges and resell the brass that way which drops the value of the brass to 1/20 the original value.
I did find this place on the web.
http://www.precisiondelta.com/products_new.htm
They have some, but you have to order 2000 rounds at a time.
Just not in my budget right now.
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