Yeah, Pappy has gotten impossible. Even in a major market that is a neighboring state to KY with a long history of Bourbon distribution, the liquor store allotments were cut back so severely this year that they liquor stores that got them had to go to a lottery system on the waiting list.
If you like Pappy, you should try Col. EH Taylor. It is very similar to Pappy and at a reasonable cost. It is so similar, that some people suspect that it may very well be the Pappy reject barrels sold off under another name. You know they're not throwing those reject barrels away.