Our Academy Sports doesn't have any primers or powder. They said they can't get them. I think they just don't try. They sell lots of overpriced ammo and it doesn't seem to move very fast. A month ago they put 9mm ammo on sale for $11.00/50 , it was Blazer brass cased ammo. That was gone in two days.
Their target loads are usually $15-25.00/box. That's just to much.
That's the only sale on ammo related items I've seen in Academy Sports in 3 years now. If I didn't buy my charcoal in there I wouldn't go in there at all.
Grabbed (2) bricks yesterday at Academy that were marked
'on clearance' (?)
Admittedly a freak deal, but nice to find,,,,
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What a deal! In this day and age, that's fantastic. I'm afraid I would have cleaned them out. As long as your going to use it for loading ammo and not for reselling at a gun show.
Flipping reloading supplies around here is a big thing.
I fell into a deal once a few years ago where a store was getting rid of a lot of their reloading stuff by putting it on sale for $90% off. I bought 6k of Fed GM large pistol match primers for $4.00 a box.
I did clean them out and didn't feel bad about it at all. I bought somewhere around $900.00 worth of stuff for a little over $130.00, then ran like I stole it.
When I was done there was nothing left there except 3 boxes of Ruger 204 dies and some cleaning kits. I even bought 3 of the Deluxe control panels for LNL-AP progressive presses that were marked $189.00 each for $19.00 each. I only wanted one for my press for Christmas that year, but the department manager was pleading with me to take all 3 so I did.
He was afraid he would have to deal with Hornady on sending them back. Apparently, that's not easy to do.
Christmas really came early that year. It came early for our member, Dudedog also because I sent him one of the control panals as a gift , and kept the 3rd one in case I needed parts for mine.
Around here, if I wouldn't have bought all of it, that stuff would have ended up on a table at the next gun show at full retail price or more, so I didn't feel bad at all.
I know the gun show venders have a right to buy it also, but those guys make it hard to find supplies at a decent price around here. They constantly are buying out everything gun related that is on sale at these stores and resell them at the next show.
So, depending on circumstances, I will clean out a "lightning sale" when I happen past one, which isn't very often.