Components and Ammo Availability Update

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David Reiss posted this 12 June 2021

I have started to noticed some changes that I will pass on to everyone.

1) First several online retailers are getting smokeless powder supplies. Some even are getting large shipments. Some are staying in stock, while others are still selling quickly. 

2) My local Cabelas is getting small shipments of primers, but of course they sell out within hours.

3) The distributors that my local gun shop deals with are getting ammo, bullets, brass and some reloading equipment that has been hard to find over the last year.

This tells me that the ammo manufacturers are starting to get caught up and are releasing small amounts of components. Maybe by this fall we may start seeing our way back to normal availability. 

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sluggo posted this 13 June 2021

The l.g.s. by me has ammunition in stock. Most of it f.m.j. magtech. It seems inflation it not only for gasoline. Still it is a little better than a few months ago. Looks like a slow road to normal.

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David Reiss posted this 13 June 2021

I should have added prices are coming down here from where they have been, but we already know from press releases that ammo costs are going up anywhere from 10-25%. 

David Reiss - NRA Life Member & PSC Range Member Retired Police Firearms Instructor/Armorer
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Wheel Weights posted this 16 June 2021

My in box is full of ammo deals. 9mm and 5.56 is now under a buck a round. 22RF and 380 still nutso.

Wait till Iran pops off its 1st nuke !

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Qc Pistolero posted this 17 June 2021

Up here in eastern Canada,we can find powder easily altough not always exactly what we are looking for;but there's almost always a very similar burning rate available(2400 wins the gold medal as being the toughest one to get).

Primers are getting a little easier to find but again not always the brand you are looking for.

Prices have gone up about 50% from what they were 2 years ago.

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David Reiss posted this 18 June 2021

Something else that is very interesting is the number of new companies or brands of ammo coming out. I am sure they are small companies that have risen up during the ammo shortage and many will die out when the major manufacturers get back to normal.

Time will tell which ones stay around if any.

Zuber, OMPC, Hunting Shack, Fetter, ZQi, GB, MBI, Atomic. G2 Research, DRT, Liberty, Minuteman Munitions, Seismic and Sterling are just a few of the dozens that I have noticed. 

David Reiss - NRA Life Member & PSC Range Member Retired Police Firearms Instructor/Armorer
-Services: Wars Fought, Uprisings Quelled, Bars Emptied, Revolutions Started, Tigers Tamed, Assassinations Plotted, Women Seduced, Governments Run, Gun Appraisals, Lost Treasure Found.
- Also deal in: Land, Banjos, Nails, Firearms, Manure, Fly Swatters, Used Cars, Whisky, Racing Forms, Rare Antiquities, Lead, Used Keyboard Keys, Good Dogs, Pith Helmets & Zulu Headdresses. .

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MP1886 posted this 18 June 2021

I'm not quite so sure things will get back to normal. Once the major manufacturers taste blood (the high cost they have been selling their wares at) that they will go back. 

I think too that the small manufacturers that have sprung can survive if they can beat major manufacturer's prices.  I hope i'm wrong about the first statement and right about the seond one. 

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David Reiss posted this 18 June 2021

I know that Winchester sent out a press release about the price increase for ammo in 2021. Most types of ammo increased an average of 12-15%,

However I seen some hunting ammo in the $25 price range, .223 @ $13 a box and some harder to find ammo like 8mm Lebel @ $27 a box. Boxes of 9mm ball ammo under $20. So those are close to or at normal.

What is still high, very high actually is some top quality/premium handgun and rifle ammo. But with more availability it should come down. I know at the local gun shop I gunsmith for, their prices for all ammo is reasonable. 


David Reiss - NRA Life Member & PSC Range Member Retired Police Firearms Instructor/Armorer
-Services: Wars Fought, Uprisings Quelled, Bars Emptied, Revolutions Started, Tigers Tamed, Assassinations Plotted, Women Seduced, Governments Run, Gun Appraisals, Lost Treasure Found.
- Also deal in: Land, Banjos, Nails, Firearms, Manure, Fly Swatters, Used Cars, Whisky, Racing Forms, Rare Antiquities, Lead, Used Keyboard Keys, Good Dogs, Pith Helmets & Zulu Headdresses. .

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RicinYakima posted this 19 June 2021

Went to the Cabela's Outpost store today in Union Gap and they had lots of .223 ball ammo for $17/20 and SP for $24/20. Every kind of rimfire ammo you could think of and 20 boxes of 6.5 Creedmore. No handgun ammo at all. 

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Tom Acheson posted this 19 June 2021

Just checked the gun shop where I always get my primers and powder, maybe the last 25-years. The only powder they have is for 50 BMG. Random shipments of Alliant powder arrive with no warning and it is all gone within a day or two.

Tom

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