Stock up...when you can

[300WSM]

As everyone knows supply in everything shooting related is way down. Shelves are naked of product.

Here is somewhat concrete info I can relay...from some important folks deep within the industry...

If everything settled down on this very day...it will be one full year at the least before mfg's are caught back up and demand is met.

Obviously the longer the chaos continues the longer it will be to get back to the supply and demand point. Right now its just a demand...no supply.

Maybe you have good supply of your needs but if you stumble across something you use...even if you are stocked up...don't hesitate to buy. Right now is anyone's guess when this will settle down and product becomes available again at a normal rate.

It's going to be a long time until you can walk into a gun store and buy everything you need. When you do see it, you better grab it

 

[wildgene]

...I started doing that in Aug. '08, a box of bullets, primers, brass, or a lb. of powder, rimfire ammo, pistol ammo @ least once a week. I'm pretty confident I can weather the storm, but I still pick up replacements when it's available...

 

[Richracer1]

I stocked up when things got scarce back in 04 or so and little by little over the following few years stocked up on what I use. As of right now, I'm very well stocked for bullets, brass, powder, and primers. Here recently, I thought I was a idiot for buying so much, but now I'm not thinking that at all.

Just got back from Sportsman's Warehouse in Idaho Falls, ID and all I can say is wow, their ammo, primer, and bullet shelves are beyond bare. They have lots of bolt rifles and shotguns but handguns are extremely limited and don't bother looking for any type of an AR.

I work in receiving at the IF Wally World and we laugh as it seems people know when FedEx and UPS deliver as various management types come and ask if we got any firearms in and if they are ARs cause people are at the counter asking.

 

[SJB358]

I am pretty well stocked up on most stuff, but primers and some components for my new Hornady LNL press are hard to grab. Got enough brass and bullets to last awhile, powder can be saved a little for important stuff, so I should be okay. I wished I would have stocked up on more though..

 

[pre6422hornet]

Cabelas in Kansas City had just about every form of Hodgen Powder in stock yesterday. No IMR anywhere.

 

[Wis65x55]

I would like to do some load work-up. Can't find the bullets that I want.
Keith

 

[FOTIS]

Been buying something every payday

 

[tecumseh]

I picked up another pound of bullseye and power pistol for my 45 and 40 cal. I haven't had much problem getting stuff for my rifles.

 

[Oldtrader3]

Man, everything is gone around here, I got a pound of IMR 4756 for pistol loads on Thursday but the shelves in the stores that I shop in, are bare.

I have pretty good stock of powder and primers, mostly because Obama is Obama and I knew that after the election the hammer would fall on gunowners! A donkey doesn't change his braying or his ears! I stocked up on primers, brass, bullets and powder before the election. I also sold almost of my small holding of stocks right nearly at the high, before the election and some after.

In the 3rd debate, when Donkey ears, Obama called AR15's "machine guns", I went out and started buying powder, bullets and primers the next day!

 

[Wincheringen]

I did the same OT3. I actually started stocking up about 8 months prior when I knew that goofball Romney didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of beating Barry.

 

[SJB358]

I would like to do some load work-up. Can't find the bullets that I want.
Keith

Keith, what do you need buddy? Maybe we can sort you out a little?

 

[FOTIS]

22 lrs are my only issue

 

[Oldtrader3]

I don't have a lot of .22 LR, maybe 600?

 

[PJGunner]

I went to my Sportsman's Warehouse yesterday and no powder, no primers, damn little brass but there were some bullets, mostly the pricier premium versions. I've been thinking of trying the 180 gr. Accubonds in my .300 Win. Mag. and as there were 4 boxes on the shelf I grabbed them. As I was putting them into my basket, this guy who came up tp me saw what I'd grabbed abd lamented I was gonna buy those. I asked him, Are you just working up a load or do you already have one?" He said he had a load but needed more bullets. Being the old softy that I am I let him have one of the boxes. The look on his face was priceless. I think that if the guy had made his comment in an angry tone I probably would not have let him have the box, but he was more disappointed than angry. Heck! I don't even know if my .300 will even like those bullets. :roll: :lol:
Paul B.

 

[SJB358]

Heck! I don't even know if my .300 will even like those bullets. :roll: :lol:
Paul B.

I would bet it'll do okay with them. Pretty good in my WSM Paul..