Businesses price gouging ammo right now

[Dinglenutz]

Dang. I should start selling ammo I guess, at least for the ones I like to shoot the least. Apparently I have a few $K in 380 alone - what does JHP go for I wonder?

 

[EHJ]

Dang. I should start selling ammo I guess, at least for the ones I like to shoot the least. Apparently I have a few $K in 380 alone - what does JHP go for I wonder?

Holy he**!

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About .70 cents plus!

 

[Dinglenutz]

I remember the time when I could get 50 BMG ball for $1 a pop. Better days.

 

[WillametteWill]

Apparently I have a few $K in 380 alone - what does JHP go for I wonder?

 

[SCARed]

My guess is production is being diverted. Seems to me that's what happened last time around.

I'm being told that ammo manufactures are having a hard time getting primers. So its affecting all calibers, not just the most popular like last time.

 

[DizzyJ]

I'm being told that ammo manufactures are having a hard time getting primers. So its affecting all calibers, not just the most popular like last time.

Got a reference for that info?

 

[SCARed]

I'm getting that from multiple trusted FFLs.

 

[ARFrog]

Got a reference for that info?

How about this:

Great Primer Shortage of 2020 - Guns and Ammo

It's no secret that the demand for firearms and ammunition have reached record levels due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the civil unrest in cities around the United States, and the prospect of an anti-gun president on the horizon. As with previous surges in ammunition sales, primers are the current

www.gunsandammo.com

Gun shops deal with ammo shortage as gun sales continue to skyrocket in NC

As gun sales continue to skyrocket in North Carolina, many gun shops are dealing with an ammo shortage.

www.wsoctv.com

 

[Camelfilter]

I'm being told that ammo manufactures are having a hard time getting primers. So its affecting all calibers, not just the most popular like last time.

Likely due to the lack of lead smelters in the US, civilian projectile supply lines will also become similarly interrupted.

 

[DizzyJ]

How about this:

Great Primer Shortage of 2020 - Guns and Ammo

It's no secret that the demand for firearms and ammunition have reached record levels due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the civil unrest in cities around the United States, and the prospect of an anti-gun president on the horizon. As with previous surges in ammunition sales, primers are the current

www.gunsandammo.com

Gun shops deal with ammo shortage as gun sales continue to skyrocket in NC

As gun sales continue to skyrocket in North Carolina, many gun shops are dealing with an ammo shortage.

www.wsoctv.com

Thank you.

 

[Swiss_Cheeze]

Will here's hoping it's like sanitary supplies now. Likely not but it would be great for an over abundance and then cheaper prices again.

 

[Dinglenutz]

Likely due to the lack of lead smelters in the US, civilian projectile supply lines will also become similarly interrupted.

That's interesting.

 

[Mikej]

So I went out and bought a few boxes of 45-70 fuel just now. I'm a bit confused as to the reasoning, if any, behind this latest panic buy deal. I fully expected anything 12ga, 9mm, 40, 45, 357, 223/5.56, etc to be tight ... but 45-70? How is that in any way an HD choice except in a dire pinch? Did someone turn a bunch of rogue elephants loose in western OR and no one has informed me?

Maybe production is diverted to the previously mentioned HD choices and 45-70 is just drying up due to attrition?

The LGS has acres of 450 Bushmaster, but so do I so that didn't help much. I believe I'll use the 300 Win Mag on any marauding elephants, in any case.

 

[Dinglenutz]

Maybe the polar bears are finally migrating south.

 

[Mikej]

Got a reference for that info?

Here's a member that has direct experience with getting/not getting primers.... @oremike

 

[oremike]

Primers are hard to come by and small pistol are the rarest. In the past I'd get my order shipped in a couple days. My last order I had to wait 5 weeks for it to ship and when I tried to reorder they said that they stopped taking orders for the next couple week to clear up some of the back log. As far as ammo buyers, when I'd tell people that I was having trouble getting small pistol primers but had plenty large pistol we'd go down the list of ammo I make with the large primers and they'd order some of what other they'd have guns for. Kinda like "well I haven't shot the 44 Mag in a while so I'll get some for it." I don't think there is a lot of hoarding per say or profiteering people just need ammo in these trying times. I also hear a lot of "best get to the range and dust off those old skills". So they are buying some to shoot, and some for comfort is a good way to put it.

 

[HaveGun]

No ammo to price gouge around here. Stopped at the LGS yesterday and have never seen so much 10mm on the shelf. Cheapest was $18 for a box of 50 Blazer aluminum. Brass cased stuff was $25. Crazy times when 10mm locally is cheaper than 9mm online.

I picked up another can of 4895 for rifle loads and am fine for pistol powders and primers. Nice knowing that if I suddenly lost my job, that I could pay bills for a couple of months solely by selling components and ammo.

 

[turbo_vanner]

Primers are hard to come by and small pistol are the rarest. In the past I'd get my order shipped in a couple days. My last order I had to wait 5 weeks for it to ship and when I tried to reorder they said that they stopped taking orders for the next couple week to clear up some of the back log. As far as ammo buyers, when I'd tell people that I was having trouble getting small pistol primers but had plenty large pistol we'd go down the list of ammo I make with the large primers and they'd order some of what other they'd have guns for. Kinda like "well I haven't shot the 44 Mag in a while so I'll get some for it." I don't think there is a lot of hoarding per say or profiteering people just need ammo in these trying times. I also hear a lot of "best get to the range and dust off those old skills". So they are buying some to shoot, and some for comfort is a good way to put it.

I know a handful of people who have bots programmed on their computers and phones to immediately buy things like the $20/100 Herters 9mm from Cabelas or primers from sportsmans. Those folks clean out all the inventory in minutes, and resell it online for 2x-10x the price. Not really being excellent towards other shooters, but if that's the game they want to/need to play, then that's their choice.

 

[Lasers]

Will you ask them for small pistol primers for me?

Not much even on the second hand market

 

[Idaho44]

Take the cost per round in change and throw it down range! If you are comfortable with doing that, then buy the ammo when it costs that much per round. Do it for every round you shoot. If the cost per round is 20 cents, five rounds of that is a lot better than a dollar per round. The "magic" is in your wallet, but the 'desire' is in your brain!