How is Ammunition Availability at Your Local Gun Shops?

Alllen Bundy

Alllen Bundy

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I'm starting to see reduced 9 mm ammunition selection at my local gun shops in the Twin Cities area. Finding 30.06 ammunition is even more difficult. Most of the ammunition that I would like to buy seems to only be available online.
 
Just did a gunshop crawl last week.

The local Turner's had quite a bit of the popular autopistol and rimfire ammo this Thursday: 9x19, .40 S&W, .45 ACP, some .38 Special. A smaller LGS had a whole bunch of .22 WMR from an estate, plus a little 9x19. Yet another LGS had much broader variety, but at $59.99 for a run-of-the-mill 50 round box of .32 S&W Long, I'm not surprised his shelves are full! 5.56 seems plentiful again.
 
Old_Grouch said:
We are able to get most anything with a couple notable exceptions. Apparently .410 shot shells and .45-70 no longer exist. None of our distributors have either.
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I've been able to find 410 sporadically. They do a run of it every few months, so if you are patient you will find it.
 
Tons of ammo in my neck of the woods, Cabela's, Scheels, small shops, larger shops, ranges. Scheels was selling certain 9mm for $13/box on sale today. Primers on the other hand...haven't seen much for small pistol lately.
 
Old_Grouch said:
We are able to get most anything with a couple notable exceptions. Apparently .410 shot shells and .45-70 no longer exist. None of our distributors have either.
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I got lucky and scored 50 rounds at $.80/rnd last week, but that was the first time Ive seen any on the shelf in 2 years.

FL-NC said:
What this guy said here in NW Fl.
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Things arent quite so rosy in Mid-West FL. 9mm, .22 LR and .223 are plentiful. Surprisingly, Russian 7.62X39 is still everywhere, for a few cents more per round than .223. 300BO, .308, .40 and .45 are hit or miss but prices are insane.
But thats about it. .30-06 is scarce, .30-30, .22-250, .243, and 20GA are nonexistent.
 
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Was at a Gun show today. All the ammo you could haul in popular calibers was available. 1000 rounds of brass 5.56 FMJ was $460. 9mm ball was $279 for 1,000. No limit on anything. Saw .22 cal Rem Bucket of Bullets for $120. Probably had a dozen plus of those behind the table.
 
LGS- hit or miss

Have Bass Pro local though and they usually have some iteration of what you’re looking for.
 
A couple of the Turners Outdoorsman shops here in So Cal have a variety of the popular stuff, but anything outside of the big 6 (.22 LR, 12 Ga, .223, 9mm, .45, .40) pickings are still fairly thin.

If I see any .327 Fed Mag I’ll faint. I haven’t seen one box on a shelf, nor has Starline had any brass for sale on their site, since I bought the dang gun 7 months ago. :thumbdown:

Stay safe.
 
Sores around here have a decent supply but nothing like pre Covid years where there were pallets of ammo all over the place but that could be because they don't want to have a lot of inventory looking for prices to possible come down more yet.
 
West TN, most hunting calibers are prolific around here, even the prc stuff is abundant. Saw some 7prc at one lgs the other day. 45/70, 450bm, 350 legend, all very abundant. Most common pistol rds are also abundant. What is scarce is .410, 45colt, 25-06, 357mag, 32acp, 303brit, and anything Weatherby.
Large Rifle primers are non existent.
 
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LGS full but high. Decent deals online with free shipping on occasion...
 
Northern Kentucky/SW Ohio seeing plenty of ammo. 45/70 at Cabalas yeah it was $2.50/round but several boxes, 9mm has been avaliable in quanity just not cheap, 45acp glad I reload but avaliable & getting cheaper, primers are sporatic but becoming more common if expensive. 38special & 357 startled me so much I dam near bought it for the brass.
 
Stuff that most shops have
-.308 Winchester
-9mm
-.223/.556
-.22 Rimfire
-.45 ACP
-.40 S&W
-12 Gauge
-.22 Mag
-.30-06
-.270 Winchester
-.380 Auto
-6.5 Creedmoor
-10mm
-7.62x39

Stuff that's around if you really look for it
-.32 ACP
-.25 ACP
-.44 Magnum/Special
-.357 Magnum Jacketed Soft Point
-.30 Carbine
-.243 Winchester
-.45-70
-.38 Special
-PRC cartridges
-.300 Win Mag
- Match Grade .22 Rimfire
-7mm Rem Mag
-7.62x54R
-30-30 Winchester
-.450 BM
-.350 Legend
-Every primer except LR
-Powder

What's essentially nonexistent
-.357 Magnum in anything that isn't JSP
-.41 Magnum
-10 Gauge
-7mm-08
-.410 (at reasonable prices, at least)
-Large Rifle Primers
-Any of the rounds that have always been somewhat difficult to find in stores i.e. .32 S&W Long, .35 Remington, .300 Savage, any of the Mauser cartridges, .250-3000 Savage, .327 Federal, 7.62x25, .35 Whelen, .358 Winchester, etc.
 
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Availability is okay here (SW Montana) but the pricing is on the high side (but cheaper than eggs!;)). Honestly though I buy virtually all of my ammo online anymore. Even with shipping the price is usually enough better to be worth it, and of course the selection is better. SGAmmo is one of my favorites, although when Midway has a sale they're usually good. I bought some ammo a couple of weeks ago from Palmetto and the price & service were great but I haven't tried the ammo yet (it's the newish AAC stuff).
 
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