I feel bad for...........
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............. the people wanting to get into shooting and hunting. Especially young folks just getting started. Prices are so high it will take a significant part of their income to get started, yet alone replenished. Even cheap guns and range fodder ammunition is selling above premium prices.
Myself, I can hunt for many years with what I have with a little target practice practice thrown in. What I can't do is go out and pound away. Looks like 200+ round target days are on hold indefinitely.
Ammunition I should have stocked up more on and didn't is 380acp . 44mag. Of course I wish I had more of some other rounds a well but I have enough to get by.
I have some reloading supplies but not many. That's an area I really should have paid more attention to.
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I just picked up a gun at my FFL and there was a woman there who had just purchased a couple of guns somewhere else. She wanted to buy ammo for her new guns. She bought one box of 30 30 Winch for $42 AND one box of 9mm for $36. The FFL owner told me he places standard orders to all his suppliers and never knows what or if he will recieve something. He had 6 boxes of .22 Mag for $21 per box. The woman told me all the stores she shopped in had nothing except 12 guage shotgun shells, and they all had quite a few of them.
I have plenty of ammo and reloading components but I have backed off too.
I wish I had more trap and skeet loads because I don't have a lot of bags of shot or wads. I have about 5 cases of 12ga 7 1/2 and the ability to make about 4 more after that I am done.
The only cartridge I don't reload for is 357 SIG. I have about 1500 rds of range fodder and maybe 300 rds of SD ammo. I have backed off shooting it and I started CC my G19 instead of the G32 because I have lots of 9mm.
22LR is one thing I have plenty of. A friend of my passed away a few years ago and left me all his shooting stuff and 2 guns. He had a pallet of Federal 22lr lead standard velocity. I tried to give it to the BSA but they don't shoot guns at Summer camp anymore they shoot airguns. So I kept it and put it in those big hard plastic storage barrels with desiccant packs inside. I check them and fix them every 6 months. I pull a box out and shoot some every year and so far so good.
I set up both my Nephews for hunting. One likes to Duck hunt the other is a deer hunter. So when they graduated HS I gave the Duck hunter a Franchi and 3 cases of steel shot, the deer hunter got a Pre 64 Winchester M70 in 30-06 and 500 rounds of my handloads made just for that rifle.
Hey Uncle Sam
We are getting 20+ calls a day for ammo. Most of them are new shooters, that want to take a Concealed Carry class and need the ammo for the range part
Let's see over 8 ,000,000 million new shooters, this year according to some news outlets. At 2 x boxes ea, that's 16,000,000 million boxes of ammo that was not accounted for at this time last year. Some where around 80,000,000 to 100,000,000 million Rds of ammo?
Try your math again. Unless you are selling 5rd boxes you are way off.
Counting the Zeros, yep way off I am.
the will be 100s of millions if not billions of rounds for sale soon ,, think about it with out any one allowed to have a gun the ammo will be useless