Posted: 5/3/2009 1:57:43 PM EDT
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Does anybody here shop for ammo anywhere other than walmart?
What do you think will happen when the politically correct walmart machine stops selling ammo? How about shopping at your local gun shop? |
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My local gun stores buy stuff from natchez and midway and mark the prices up. At least the shop is making an effort to have ammo in stock if it is ordering from other suppliers. The big distributors like Ellet Brothers are limiting the small shops on how much ammo they can order buy telling them it is allocated already (which means a large shop somewhere else probably sent them a large check covering the cost of backordered ammo so they get it first). The shops have to mark up what they sell it is how they stay in business, I will pay a little more to pick the ammo up at a local shop when I need it instead of having to order it and wait for it. I don't know how it is where you are at but here waiting for the big brown truck all day sucks. |
| I would buy at a Local Shop if they did not try and rape me with their pricing. $16 for a box of 9mm that sells for $11 at WM or $22 for a box of .308 that sells for $14 at WM is total crap. I can't stand WM either but capitalism rules and until the local shops stop screwing people then I say screw them. Personally I buy most stuff online though as I find that is usually the best deal. |
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As much as I would LOVE to support my friendly neighborhood gun shops with my ammo purchases... It's either Wally World or online at Ammo-Man or Ammunition To-Go. ditto... Local Gun Shops are outrageous with their prices... I dont mind paying a little more, but 25-50% and up over online is too much. I used to order from both ammo-man and ammo to go... used to.... Lately I've ordered from Palmetto State Armory and wideners (both ARFCOM supporters). |
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As much as I would LOVE to support my friendly neighborhood gun shops with my ammo purchases... It's either Wally World or online at Ammo-Man or Ammunition To-Go. ditto... Local Gun Shops are outrageous with their prices... I dont mind paying a little more, but 25-50% and up over online is too much. I used to order from both ammo-man and ammo to go... used to.... Lately I've ordered from Palmetto State Armory and wideners (both ARFCOM supporters). Oh, really ? I shall check them out and give them a try. Thanks for the heads up., |
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This is typical of the madness that's going on in the industry right now. There isn't any such thing as inexpensive ammo anymore. Wally World has the market cornered because they barely mark up their ammo sales. Something else that I haven't heard anybody mention about their ammo is Wal-Mart also has the market absolutely covered in terms of logistics. I hear other companies, and even the government at times, have modeled their logistics after what Wal-Mart has made the standard over the years. That's why the can sell the exact same products cheaper than everybody else. Local gun shops are OK for buying a single box or two to go to the range or along with a new firearm purchase. Other than that, they've always been the most expensive place you can go. And they're all doing the same thing everybody else is: gouging the living shit out of everybody but until people quit running around and stocking up on tens of thousands of rounds as if the shit's getting ready to hit the fan you can expect this to continue.
Ammunition is yet another in a long line of commodities that has wildly inflated in value due to speculation. It amazes me the short term memory with the recent housing bubble and even more recent oil bubble (it wasn't even a year ago!). But I hear too many posters arguing that "Well, that was housing and oil but this is ammo," like it's somehow different. This shit ain't gonna disappear tomorrow. I don't believe we're headed for a civil war any more than I believe the Russians are gonna start air dropping troops like in Red Dawn. A Democrat president got elected and everybody went ape shit. Everybody took whatever money they had left after the recession was in full effect and blew it on stockpiling ammo for the end of the freakin' world. There's a shit load of bullets out there but it's still a finite supply.....just like oil. And people fueling all the conjecture to go with it like 'the 500% tax' and the 'ammo formulas that only last a year' and the 'serial numbers on shell casings' and all the other bullshit is only making this worse. I have been shooting quite a bit for years but with all my expensive ass guns I can't even afford to shoot them. I can buy a quality made AR-15 for a little over a thousand and spend the same on ammo to go with it that I can literally shoot out with a range visit every two weeks in the period of about 4 months. Can you imagine buying a car where you'll spend as much in gas as you did on the actual car in four months time? Rediculous. Sooner or later, supply WILL catch up with demand (God knows, our economy) was based on that belief) and I'm going to laugh when all these dooms-dayers are stuck with ammo that isn't worth half what they paid for it 6-12 months before. And now people are buying it from Wally and selling it on Gunbroker and EE for double and triple? I hope something bad happens to those assholes.... |
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I believe Gun Shops are the 90% responsible for empty Walmart and Bass Pro shelves. They wont get a dime for me and can close for all I care.
Online vendors (exept for Palmetto State and sometimes Sportsmans Guide) are jacking their prices as well and they dont buy up the Walmart stock  Right now Natchez has UMC 9mm in stock at the yuck price of $19.99 and thats on sale! their regular price is $24.99
Again, the local dealer and weekend Fun Show mall ninjas are mostly responsible for the High prices of ammo comonly found at Walmart. 223SAINT |
| Luckily I have one local dealer that isnt raping to bad. I'll pay $15 abox of 9mm from him. Dicks sporting goods have also been ,fair on the 9mm they just cant get .45. Dicks only charges $127 out the door for a case of UMC 9mm(500)rnds. Gander has lost me as a customer with their insane pricing,they dont have to do that. |
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Luckily I have one local dealer that isnt raping to bad. I'll pay $15 abox of 9mm from him. Dicks sporting goods have also been ,fair on the 9mm they just cant get .45. Dicks only charges $127 out the door for a case of UMC 9mm(500)rnds. Gander has lost me as a customer with their insane pricing,they dont have to do that. I agree, Gander Mountain has lost me as a customer... Prices and customer service is long gone... |
| Make sure you remember to place part of the blame on the individuals that come into Wal-Mart with plastic, buy everything they have, then go online and sell it for double and triple. You know we're in an ammo bubble when even .22 LR is impossible to find. I have an old Italian 6.5mm Carcano I'm in the process of restoring and I can buy rounds for it cheaper than I can buy rounds for my AR. This will no doubt come to an end at some point. The only question is when.... |
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the shop I manage has plenty of ammo we spend all our free time looking at our distributors web sights
and as soon as we notice an update we order it. the only ammo I don't have in a good amount is .380 on the other hand I can now sell ammo at suggested retail I do mark it down for gun purchases and for regulars, we are a retail shop and it is nice to have my competition come and purchase 9mm and .45 from me for resale. please stop by and talk to me if you think my ammo prices are to high. I don't sell ammo online only ftf in store and I have 4 people I need to pay thank bill cracker boys outdoors ask for bill |
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the shop I manage has plenty of ammo we spend all our free time looking at our distributors web sights and as soon as we notice an update we order it. the only ammo I don't have in a good amount is .380 on the other hand I can now sell ammo at suggested retail I do mark it down for gun purchases and for regulars, we are a retail shop and it is nice to have my competition come and purchase 9mm and .45 from me for resale. please stop by and talk to me if you think my ammo prices are to high. I don't sell ammo online only ftf in store and I have 4 people I need to pay thank bill cracker boys outdoors ask for bill You guys are right around the corner from me. I'll have to stop by. What are your hours? |
| A little too far down the road, brotha. You're in St. Petersburg and I'm in Jacksonville. That's too long of a hike for me but I appreciate you serving the shooting community as opposed to viewing people with a passion for shooting and people protecting themselves as nothing more than dollar signs. I might pay you a visit if I were to get down to that area. I think, for the meantime, I'm just not going to shoot much for a while. Things are looking up though: I still have my air rifle in my garage! |
