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Mitty38

Mitty38

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Local shop has 2 guns left a single shot 410 and a single shot 22 rifle both 70's catalog guns. Plus they have 450 bushmaster upper. Of course no ammo for either of those.

They do have some 45/70 and 350 legend ammo and a regular supply of the 7- 8mm old school military stuff. Who says an SKS is not a good choice for a bug out gun, at least there is still ammo for it every where,I have saw.
Plenty of primers and powder left.

Course I have plenty enough .223 soft point at home, and I always can start seriously using those .357 molds you guys sent me.

Wile organizing my cans to make room for the .223 stuff, that I was marathon loading last week. I came across some more stashed alumnim cased blazer 45 acp.
I thought I had only 2 boxes left. Found out I forgot, I stashed back 8 more. From when I had my 45 carbine.
Wondered why I had so many till I looked at the price tag $8.99. Well to make a long story short, one of the guys I work with was talking and said all he had for his 45 acp was 20 defense rounds, that came with it. So I figured he could use them more then me. He has helped me before so..Went and gave him 6 boxes.
That emptied one of my ammo boxes for .223 storage.
He was like a kid at Christmas.
 
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RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
The shelves were full here last I looked but that's been over a month anywhere but Walmart and just looking there it was thinning , shelf face boxes but some of everything they offer . The farm stores are stocked to the gills or thin anyway so being out isn't really an indication of more than 100 or so extra sales this month . I probably haven't shot 150 22LR since Bush left office but bought 2000 when it came back . I have 80 of the 100 each 30-30 and 45-70 I bought after getting those ........ And some factory 380 too . Just about everything else is my handy work .
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
I haven't been near a toy store since this pandemic nonsense got traction. We are set here, so no issues AFAIC. Kinda like the little old lady that got pulled over with the SIG P-220 lying beside her on the front seat.

Officer--"Just what is it you are afraid of, ma'am?"

Lady--"Not one darn thing."
 
fiver

fiver

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probably don't help that they were on sale right before all this really hit.

I was getting bricks of Winchester shot shell [or could have got large rifle] primers for 22.99 a thousand and could have snagged some CCI's for 19.99.
I had previously cleaned them out of federal S-Shell primers for the same price, they had placed a 1 brick/1box limit on stuff before I got back down there for the Winchesters.

those are bill klinton era prices.

too bad this had to ramp up right now.
I think they were just about to drop the price on powder some due to the stagnant sales.
I was starting to see some indicators of that happening this summer.
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
I agree fiver. We were right about to see some price drops or sales. I look at the Win primer rebate of last year as a sign.
Lots of production capacity, lots of stock on hand, and sales back to normal.
 
fiver

fiver

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late march april is the pistol-shotgun powder run scheduled for the factory's.
I kind of picked up on the manufacturing schedule during the Obama shortage.
if you timed your arrival to the store on a quarterly basis just so, you could always pick up something.
now is when those hit the shelf.
rifle powders were hitting the shelf sept-oct.
faster rifle powders were the middle run, and slow pistol powders were the winter stocks.

if the factory's are being shut down now it's the varmint type rifle powders that will suffer the most.
but the faster powders could be affected if they weren't finished.
 
358156 hp

358156 hp

At large, whereabouts unknown.
I just stopped by the local Scheels. What an eye-opening experience that was. No 223 or 9mm ammo as expected. All 9mm reloading bullets were sold out, most of the 223 (okay, .224) bullets in the normal 223 Remington range were sold out except for the really expensive ones, or the super heavyweights. The ammo shelves were cordoned off and you had to wait in line to look for what you wanted. I passed on that part. I could see from where I was that handgun ammo shelves were bare. I moved over to the actual gun sales dept. Same drill, wait in line, etc. I passed on that too. I went back to the shelves and got 3000 small rifle primers and called it a day. There were plenty of primers, No limits. I probably should have bought more SR primers. I have a lot of LC brass to load, so I went with CCI primers instead of my traditional Winchesters.
 
Mitty38

Mitty38

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oscarflytyer said:
Mitty - where you located? I Have not been "out" looking, but online, primers are out of stock...
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Malvern, Ohio the little store is Sphons CCW - 113 N Market ST, Minerva, Ohio 44657
HE HAS NO FEDERAL LARGE PISTOL BUT HE IS FULL UP ON CCI AND WINCHESTER lpp ....FYI as of this post
740-422-9482
THEY ARE OLD SCHOOL, COMMUNITY GEARED, AND DO NO MAIL ORDER, CARRY OUT ONLY.
 
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Ian

Ian

Notorious member
PV had 110 bricks of CCI 300 on the 12th. But they only had five one-pounders of RX-7 and I was shopping for 2-4 five-pounders. Wasn't gonna pay hazmat two places to get what I wanted and really it was just a "top off for the next few years" order so I got frustrated and blew it off.
 
Reloader762

Reloader762

Active Member
Ben said:
These are the times that make casting and reloading look REAL GOOD !!!!!!
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Amen to that. Being able to reload an cast for all my handguns and rifles has always been part of my preps just like any of the basic need for me and my family. I got ahead of that curve a long time ago and have never found myself wanting for anything related to that.
 
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RKJ

Active Member
I got a 555 box of Winchester 22LR ammo at our local WM. They looked to be about normal (W/O the .223 and pistol ammo).
 
Mitty38

Mitty38

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Might be loading up some 10mm tritanium
Rounds for my SFS TR-116a sniper rifle later.
Trying to find load data.
 
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