Fella's;
T'other day at Scheel's, a good-sized regional full spectrum sporting goods store, I found bricks of Winchester PowerPoint ammo at $34.95. So I did the wahoo dance & bought two. This isn't a lot different than P.O. pricing for this .22 ammo that's generally considered to be Winchester's premium hunting rimfire product. A couple of days ago I got a notification that Scheel's now had bricks of Federal American Eagle on the shelf. At $39.95!
Back in the day, before the present administration came into office, I can clearly recall seeing a pallet of the Am-Eagle on the floor of another large retailer in town priced at $8.99 a brick of 400. At that time Winchester P-P's were about $20.00 a brick I think, although not too sure of the brick price because I was buying it by the case. I do know I saw P-P's climb to right about that $35.00 figure before the drooling idiocy concerning .22 ammo in general started. I'm not sure what Am-Eagle was at the same time, but maybe $18.00?
So now I'm wondering just what's going on here? I don't think the retailer's playing games, at least I'd hope not. I also suppose that they're big enough to use several gun & ammo wholesalers too. But from past threads here, the general consensus has been that the intermediaries aren't taking advantage of the ammo crisis either. So has Federal/ATK decided to make hay while the sun shines? As I understand it, Winchester's got the most modern rimfire ammo plant in the U.S. at this time. They moved from Illinois to one of the gulf coast states & built brand-new maybe 5 to 8 years ago.
Anybody got some cogent thoughts as to what went on here?
900F
T'other day at Scheel's, a good-sized regional full spectrum sporting goods store, I found bricks of Winchester PowerPoint ammo at $34.95. So I did the wahoo dance & bought two. This isn't a lot different than P.O. pricing for this .22 ammo that's generally considered to be Winchester's premium hunting rimfire product. A couple of days ago I got a notification that Scheel's now had bricks of Federal American Eagle on the shelf. At $39.95!
Back in the day, before the present administration came into office, I can clearly recall seeing a pallet of the Am-Eagle on the floor of another large retailer in town priced at $8.99 a brick of 400. At that time Winchester P-P's were about $20.00 a brick I think, although not too sure of the brick price because I was buying it by the case. I do know I saw P-P's climb to right about that $35.00 figure before the drooling idiocy concerning .22 ammo in general started. I'm not sure what Am-Eagle was at the same time, but maybe $18.00?
So now I'm wondering just what's going on here? I don't think the retailer's playing games, at least I'd hope not. I also suppose that they're big enough to use several gun & ammo wholesalers too. But from past threads here, the general consensus has been that the intermediaries aren't taking advantage of the ammo crisis either. So has Federal/ATK decided to make hay while the sun shines? As I understand it, Winchester's got the most modern rimfire ammo plant in the U.S. at this time. They moved from Illinois to one of the gulf coast states & built brand-new maybe 5 to 8 years ago.
Anybody got some cogent thoughts as to what went on here?
900F
