Insane Prices

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All that needs to happen is stop buying from GB and the like. It's pretty simple.
I agree. Me think that many guys dont have time to sit by computer to buy supplies when available. They are forced to places like GB to get them. Hell I did not know stores were getting ammo until I stumbled on it and asked the worker. For 6 months all I saw was empty shelves.

If I did not have my supplies I would panic buy too. No way I`m going into this administration and crazy time with no ammo. However, I would never let it get to that but see how it could happen.
 

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Changing clothes and going back in makes that guy a grade A a**hole.
It does........but good luck finding that ammo on the shelf that afternoon even if that guy hadn't done that. The thing is.........someone is going to buy that ammo soon after it's out. If someone is at work when it gets put out, then they should have taken the morning off or bought that ammo before this crisis hit. But it's always easier to blame everyone else for not getting their perceived entitlements.
 

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It’s a scarcity crisis completely caused by gun owners. If people would chill out during elections, realize that they don’t need to be sitting on lifetime supplies of stuff there would be plenty in the market. Component manufacturers didn’t stop producing stuff....in fact they are working double time to catch up. It’s incredibly frustrating and preventable. I’ve been trying to buy 100 bullets and they are literally unavailable and I know piles of them are sitting in some guys safe so he can feel good about having bullets he’ll probably never use.....or worse yet reselling them at 2x the price. The exact some bs as with toilet paper last year. If people just bought what they needed we’d all be better off.
 

Hunt4lyf

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It does........but good luck finding that ammo on the shelf that afternoon even if that guy hadn't done that. The thing is.........someone is going to buy that ammo soon after it's out. If someone is at work when it gets put out, then they should have taken the morning off or bought that ammo before this crisis hit. But it's always easier to blame everyone else for not getting their perceived entitlements.

You’re correct, someone else is going to buy it but it wouldn’t be the guy who already had bought his limit of what the store said he could buy.

So if someone is actually at work and being a productive part of society it’s his fault that he didn’t take time off to maybe have a chance at buying some ammo? That’s ridiculous.
 
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If that guy wants to stand in line all day to fill his safe so be it. However, if he is just reselling it I hope bad things for him.
 

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It does........but good luck finding that ammo on the shelf that afternoon even if that guy hadn't done that. The thing is.........someone is going to buy that ammo soon after it's out. If someone is at work when it gets put out, then they should have taken the morning off or bought that ammo before this crisis hit. But it's always easier to blame everyone else for not getting their perceived entitlements.
Maybe it would be there, maybe not. But one thing is for sure, if guys are going back multiple times, against store policy, there certainly won't be any left.

My job has me in the car quite a bit, so I stop in to multiple stores several times a week at different times during the day. There is always more in the mornings, but I've found stuff later in the day as well.

Just my opinion, but the entitled ones are the guys who think the store policies don't apply to them. Those are in place for a reason and the stores have a vested interest in making sure their customers have product to buy. Guys going back multiple times aren't only perpetuating the shortage, they're negatively impacting the stores as well. ...and they're just a**holes.
 
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It’s a scarcity crisis completely caused by gun owners. If people would chill out during elections, realize that they don’t need to be sitting on lifetime supplies of stuff there would be plenty in the market. Component manufacturers didn’t stop producing stuff....in fact they are working double time to catch up. It’s incredibly frustrating and preventable. I’ve been trying to buy 100 bullets and they are literally unavailable and I know piles of them are sitting in some guys safe so he can feel good about having bullets he’ll probably never use.....or worse yet reselling them at 2x the price. The exact some bs as with toilet paper last year. If people just bought what they needed we’d all be better off.
You mean non-gun owners aren’t causing this?
 

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It’s a scarcity crisis completely caused by gun owners. If people would chill out during elections, realize that they don’t need to be sitting on lifetime supplies of stuff there would be plenty in the market. Component manufacturers didn’t stop producing stuff....in fact they are working double time to catch up. It’s incredibly frustrating and preventable. I’ve been trying to buy 100 bullets and they are literally unavailable and I know piles of them are sitting in some guys safe so he can feel good about having bullets he’ll probably never use.....or worse yet reselling them at 2x the price. The exact some bs as with toilet paper last year. If people just bought what they needed we’d all be better off.
I haven’t looked much but did pick up 300 Berger 215’s today, I’m sure I’ve missed plenty of deals as I don’t look too often, stuffs out there, my buddy has gone back to the same small gun shop 3 days in a row to buy his 200 primer limit of LR primers, place has tons of powder as well.
 

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So if someone is actually at work and being a productive part of society it’s his fault that he didn’t take time off to maybe have a chance at buying some ammo?
It's certainly not anyone else's fault if they are the one that "needs" ammo, but is never at the store to try to purchase it. That would be ridiculous to insinuate otherwise.

The best part of all this, is that a year ago ANYONE in America could have bought a lifetime supply of any of these ammo's without any delays or problems at all. So NO ONE has any room to gripe about not being able to get ammo now if they aren't willing to jump through some hoops to try and get it.
 
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Maybe it would be there, maybe not. But one thing is for sure, if guys are going back multiple times, against store policy, there certainly won't be any left.
That's up to the stores to enforce "their" policy. If they aren't going to enforce their policy then it's not all that important to them. Just like the guys that never make it to the store to try and buy, it can't be all that important to them. When things are important to someone, they generally figure out a way to accomplish their goal without blaming someone else.
 

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Last week I found some Hornady 308 precision hunter 178 ELD-X for $35.00 a box after tax. In my opinion not a bad price, and my gun likes them:) They had 8 of them, with a two box per customer limit a day. I stoped in four times over the next eight days and got them all. I was surprised no one else bought them. Tons of traffic in that store, but all people were interested in was 9mm and 223/5.56. I have been stopping in a few stores around me as time allows and have found a few with semi normal prices. I also have noticed that some of the stores have a better selection than a month ago. Hopefully a sign things will get better!!! Or it could be absolutely bitter cold temps lately:)

Ryan
 
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