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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #260 on: May 15, 2013, 11:41:23 AM »
That's about as good a price I've seen anywhere.   ::thumbsup::
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #261 on: May 15, 2013, 04:11:38 PM »
Quote from: Predator Don on May 14, 2013, 06:06:04 PM
My gun shop had a little 22 ammo. 40 grain CCI. He had an imposed 2 box minimum ( 50 shell boxes) but I shamed him into 4. $6.00 a box of 50. No 38, no 9mm though.

 Around here the gon shops are getting 10 bucks for a hundred.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #262 on: May 15, 2013, 06:28:56 PM »
Quote from: John Florida on May 15, 2013, 04:11:38 PM
Quote from: Predator Don on May 14, 2013, 06:06:04 PM
My gun shop had a little 22 ammo. 40 grain CCI. He had an imposed 2 box minimum ( 50 shell boxes) but I shamed him into 4. $6.00 a box of 50. No 38, no 9mm though.

 Around here the gon shops are getting 10 bucks for a hundred.

I saw glad to buy some. None has been available for so long.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #263 on: May 17, 2013, 06:56:45 AM »
If anybody in Minnie has time on their hands this morning they could cue up early at the new Gander Mountain store in Rogers that opens at 9am - they have a special on CCI Mini-Mags: 1600 rounds for $120, but they go fast and you got to line up early.  Talked to a guy there yesterday and their regular Thursday shipment hadn't come in yet, expected it later that evening or early this morning...cue up early and you might have a chance.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #264 on: May 17, 2013, 07:43:14 AM »
Going to a gun show Sunday just to price stuff and see what's out there.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #265 on: May 17, 2013, 11:14:00 AM »
Quote from: John Florida on May 17, 2013, 07:43:14 AM
Going to a gun show Sunday just to price stuff and see what's out there.

I don't know what they're like down there, but if they are like what they are up here I hope you like cozying up close to your fellow citizens and go through aisles at a snails pace.
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« Reply #266 on: May 17, 2013, 11:52:18 AM »
I wish there was a way to know what's available before paying for parking and admission. That's why in the past I've only found gun shows useful for when I am buying large amounts of reloading components. They're totally worth it for that because you can avoid the hazmat fee of mail ordering.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #267 on: May 17, 2013, 05:46:50 PM »
Quote from: Glock32 on May 17, 2013, 11:52:18 AM
I wish there was a way to know what's available before paying for parking and admission. That's why in the past I've only found gun shows useful for when I am buying large amounts of reloading components. They're totally worth it for that because you can avoid the hazmat fee of mail ordering.
I'll have to remember that as I'm picking up a Dillon 1050 set up for .40 cal for cheap this Wednesday coming up in addition to the XL-650 I bought last month. I will not be at the mercy of this government and neither shall my family and friends. ;D
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #268 on: May 19, 2013, 04:39:34 PM »
  All I can say is guns are dropping and I watched a guy pay 100.bucks for 500 rounds of .22LR.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #269 on: May 19, 2013, 05:01:23 PM »
Quote from: John Florida on May 19, 2013, 04:39:34 PM
  All I can say is guns are dropping and I watched a guy pay 100.bucks for 500 rounds of .22LR.

Right now, if you want 22lr, it is what you will pay.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #270 on: May 19, 2013, 06:31:38 PM »

If Obama survives this tarpit he's stuck in and starts pointing his boney finger at some other commodity, I'm buyin' in early.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #271 on: May 19, 2013, 06:33:04 PM »
Quote from: Charles Oakwood on May 19, 2013, 06:31:38 PM

If Obama survives this tarpit he's stuck in and starts pointing his boney finger at some other commodity, I'm buyin' in early.



Isn't that the truth....
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #272 on: May 19, 2013, 07:04:58 PM »
At the lake I saw a box of mini mags, I asked my father where he got them, he can't remember.   ::facepalm::

At least he has them.   ::thumbsup::
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #273 on: May 20, 2013, 02:53:05 PM »
So, went to my local (ha!) Walmart today and I was mildly surprised to see ammo on the shelf. They had perhaps fifteen boxes of Winchester .223 JHPs in 40 rounds/ea. for about $30 which translates to about $0.75/round. Not a very good price but this is the first time that I have seen ANY .223 on the shelf in Walmart since January. I bought one just for the heck of it.

They also had Russian .380ACP which, I have already learned, will not load into my S&W CC gun so I didn't bother with it. But they had perhaps eight boxes of 50 rounds/ea. on the shelf. I don't recall the price but I'm sure it was cheap since it was Rooski in origin.

They had a fairly good variety of defensive shotgun shells and I rounded out my 3 box maximum purchase with a couple of boxes of 12 gauge 00 buck at 5 rounds/box.

They had lots of rifle ammo that I don't use...I was looking for .30-06 and they had none.

But...they had ammo on the shelf and it was about 11AM so even if it came in this morning (which it probably did) the fact that there was all of that Winchester .223 just sitting there is a good sign that things are beginning to return to normal as far as supply goes. Pricing is another issue because I thought that the .223 was at least $0.25/round too high but, as I have said before, when supply catches up to demand the prices will eventually return to something close to where they were last fall before the panic set in.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #274 on: May 20, 2013, 05:04:01 PM »
From what I read elsewhere, the foreign manufacturers have also been running at full capacity and the reason it hasn't seemed to influence availability is because so much of it (like 450 million rounds of it) hasn't come through Customs yet.  Now my inner cynic says Customs has probably been ordered to drag their feet as much as possible, but eventually it will make it to the retail market. Probably in sudden waves. Hopefully that will go a long way toward pushing prices back to more sane figures.
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #275 on: May 20, 2013, 05:07:08 PM »
Quote from: Glock32 on May 20, 2013, 05:04:01 PM
From what I read elsewhere, the foreign manufacturers have also been running at full capacity and the reason it hasn't seemed to influence availability is because so much of it (like 450 million rounds of it) hasn't come through Customs yet.  Now my inner cynic says Customs has probably been ordered to drag their feet as much as possible, but eventually it will make it to the retail market. Probably in sudden waves. Hopefully that will go a long way toward pushing prices back to more sane figures.

Customs wouldn't purposefully slow the process to a crawl.....(sarc)
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #276 on: May 20, 2013, 05:33:28 PM »
Quote from: Predator Don on May 20, 2013, 05:07:08 PM
Quote from: Glock32 on May 20, 2013, 05:04:01 PM
From what I read elsewhere, the foreign manufacturers have also been running at full capacity and the reason it hasn't seemed to influence availability is because so much of it (like 450 million rounds of it) hasn't come through Customs yet.  Now my inner cynic says Customs has probably been ordered to drag their feet as much as possible, but eventually it will make it to the retail market. Probably in sudden waves. Hopefully that will go a long way toward pushing prices back to more sane figures.


Customs wouldn't purposefully slow the process to a crawl.....(sarc)

No, unlike the IRS, customs is an upright organization.\
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #277 on: May 20, 2013, 05:41:21 PM »
Buncha cynical paranoids 'round heah ........   ::unknowncomic::
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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #278 on: May 20, 2013, 07:25:53 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on May 20, 2013, 05:41:21 PM
Buncha cynical paranoids 'round heah ........   ::unknowncomic::

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Re: Ammo Shortages
« Reply #279 on: May 21, 2013, 07:01:33 AM »
Quote from: Predator Don on May 20, 2013, 07:25:53 PM
Quote from: Pandora on May 20, 2013, 05:41:21 PM
Buncha cynical paranoids 'round heah ........   ::unknowncomic::

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They are not "black", just "tactically detailed for low profile operations", that's what I hear anyway...

And yes, I do see them.
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