ADC, that sure beats two boxes for $125 plus $25 in shipping

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/913903413

Stopped at 3 gun stores this morning in NC. The first one didn’t have much of anything. The second one had limited selections. The third one had a decent selection of ammo and guns, many unopened cases of ammo on the floor to include steel shot, and I did see the reported hard to find 308 150 grain (I don’t have a 308) and several bricks of 209 shotgun primers. Most of you probably would have belly ached about the price however the product is available if you look around. I just stopped for a few minutes at each place for kicks and grins mainly to see if I could find a diamond in the ruff in way of rare guns. All parking lots were adjacent to the main highway in route home so these were easy to find for anyone.

130 plus shipping for 1000 209 primers. i bet they get it too. i bet they dont from me though

https://www.sportsmanfulfillment.com/federal-209a-shotshell-primer-100-ct/

the biggest problem is people buying everything up for auction sights then pushing you to pay more then store price and you do . Your own worst enemy .Stores are on to this and raise prices to keep it in stock

Why wouldn't stores raise prices? They have no idea when they will see the product back in stock again either. I think some of you don't understand supply and demand. Are the prices high? Yep. Is the demand high? Yep.

reloading is easy!

Get em while you can.......been there all day:

https://www.natchezss.com/cci-stand...m_medium=40661&utm_campaign=55097-NA

Brownells has cci 34 large rifle military primers

Again......they come and go, and are $$$$$, but showing up.

I found a box (50) of .44 Mag that my semi auto Deerfield likes , cycles well.

I had 10 shells ,so now I'm calmer. My Daughter and father trade off using it for Deer.

Well, today Walmart had 300 round boxes of Winchester .22lr for $40, and all the 12ga steel duck shot a person could want.

I had a "birthday" coupon from Ace Hardware for $5 off, need to use it by the 30th. I stopped at bedroom town Ace and asked what they had for ammo. The answer was 2 boxes of 16 gauge shells. I asked again what the shot size was and how much. The reply was #2 steel @ $27 a box. I walked out the door.

I did notice yesterday in Soo Foo that they had WW 12 gauge slugs for under $6 a box. The old fashioned flying wheel weight style. If they let me use the coupon, I'll pick up a couple of those. That was about the only thing that Ace had in the case besides some plain box WW .223 ammo at almost $25 a box. I'll stick to the flying wheel weights...

I've found some ...around ,pick and choose what is affordable

I spoke with a representative from the company that owns Speer/CCI/alliant powder. He informed me that demand sky rocketed a year ago. They have hired new employees as well. When trumph took office the exact opposite happened. Orders were cancelled and they reduced their work force. Firearms dealers call it the Obama bump and the trumph slump....lol. Everyone panics and hoards all reloading supplies. I'm certain that the supply chain also suffered from the global pandemic.

Just my 2 cents, it's my opinion this whole thing started with the perfect storm of a shortage. When the fed. Gov. ordered 1.6 billion yes billion rounds of ammo, contracts that must be honored due to national security mandates. Pre Hillary’s first run at the pres. Office. Her attempt at office caused a run on gun shops, guns and ammo.

Gun shops can’t sell guns without ammo to feed them. Then before ammo companies could fully recover you have another run at the gun with Trump vs. Biden. Same thing. Now a shop owner can’t sell a gun without ammo to feed them so he holds some off shelf so he can sell a gun with ammo. People see what appears to be a shortage and this causes mass panic as everybody hops on the www and says Joes shop is out of ammo, mass hysteria ensues. Soon the hoarders pile into the shops and sport stores buying up everything in sight. More hysteria as on line whoxxs, offer squirrel bullets for 20 bucks a box of 50 rounds.

Now there have been a record number of first time gun buyers, millions, and each one of them wants as much ammo as they can get because they have heard there is no ammo. Add all of these factors together with the fact we have a president in office that has said he is going to curtail the 2nd amend. And what happens is what we are seeing now. One term of a Repub. Pres. won’t do it. We need a two term Repub. In office to recover from this problem. Nothing against any one person, just my opinion.
CASE.

I was at the Sportsman's Warehouse in Kalamazoo this afternoon. Quite surprised by the amount of ammo available. Just about all the calibers you could think of were in stock. Not just a couple of boxes each but almost full sheves.

A year ago Christmas time , family went to a shooting range .
Had a good time , and asked about buying some ammo .
They said they have a limit of one box , at normal prices , they said the manufacturer didn't raise the price , the stores did .
I see prices are starting to come down , just in time for inflation to take them even higher .

I have noticed the local Wally worlds have had more ammo than normal, but the price has crept up. I shoot a fair bit of sporting clays and Wally World is the best price around in my area, however a simple box of 12 gauge Super Target shells were $5.31 this time last year are now $8.44. One observation a few weeks ago was there were six boxes of super target shells on the shelf for $7.54 a box. The next day the price was increased to $8.44 on the same ammo without a restock. I ran across Winchester Universal 12 Gauge 100 packs at another Walmart a few weeks ago for $34+ a 100 last year my wife picked up the same universal 100 packs for 19.99.