“We try to sell ammo, but that’s been a challenge in 2020. It’s very, very hard to find ammo,” said South Dakota Military Heritage Alliance Executive Director Brian Phelps.
The gun range at the Alliance is now limiting ammo purchases when people come to use the range.
“We’ll limit them to one box of ammunition vs. the normal 300 to 500 rounds,” Phelps said.
That’s because replacing some of those rounds is nearly impossible right now.
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Well, it originally was covid, now it's that BLM/antifa bullshit.
I used to be able to walk outside any time of the day or evening and hear rounds popping off in the distance, there's even a guy a mile or so away that would occasionally rip off a few bursts from his automatic, but lately? Nothing. Nobody is shooting. Even listening to the talk at the gun shop, it's not that people don't have ammo, it's that they're saving that shit up in case things starts happening around here.
Someone asked me the other day where a place to pick up ammo cheap was. I had to tell him; 'Three years ago'.
ReplyDeleteI was asked a similar thing from a friend, but I responded "15 years ago."
DeleteYeah, except 15 years ago we weren't allowed to buy ammo. Its rough being young, we missed out on affordable ammo. Now we've gotta roll our own.
DeleteYou are just a child. When I was 15 I bought guns and ammo from catalogs and everything was mailed to the house. USPS mail. There no such thing as internet, UPS or FedEx then. Times were good. Much better than now.
DeleteA double meat Whataburger with real cheese and a quart root beer costs $1.65 in those days.
I’m worried about the US ammo making capability, especially if war breaks out. During WWII, our ammo making capability was so good, it was many time what th eulogistic s chain could ship to the guys in battle.
ReplyDeleteThe only caliber I will practice with is the lowly 22LR. I can still replace it. When my local small gun shop gets 9mm it sells out instantly for 25$ box of 50.
ReplyDeleteI just paid 65 cents / bullet for 9mm / 1000 rounds.
DeleteThankful to be able to be able to buy it on line
Ammo is just like food.
ReplyDeleteDon't wait until the shooting starts to stop by the gun store.... which is just as ignorant as waiting for the famine to go shop for groceries.
I belong to a gun range right across the road from my house. You used to be able to hear gunshots from 10:00 a.m. until dusk. Now it's crickets. Occasional shotgun reports from the trap range, but little to nothing from the rifle and pistol ranges. You're right, Kenny. It's not lack of ammo, it's people saving it for "a rainy day". I live in the country outside of a small Wisconsin town about 10 miles from Kenosha. We're still on alert here.
ReplyDeleteI don’t shoot near as much as I did 6 months ago. Oddly enough, I haven’t had trouble finding 22 ammo, so I’ve done a decent bit of that. I have a couple rifles the kids love to shoot, so it’s mostly that. I’ll finish off with maybe 50 rounds through my carry pistol. Haven’t done much AR shooting. I have ammo, but like you said....
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Here in the central valley of california, I quit shooting when the assholes that be instituted the ammo background check. Before that i was stocking up once or twice weekly. But now as you are saying, I am saving it up for a rainy day.
ReplyDeleteI was at the gun range yesterday, too. Outskirts of Houston. Big outdoor range. Maybe 3/4 full, more than I would have thought. But for the number of people there, the shooting volume was way way down. I roll my own, but even so I didn't shoot near as much as I normally would. Just enough to verify a new recipe for 9 mm ammo and let my wife blow off a box of .380. Agree, people are saving it.
ReplyDeleteThe .22 adapter for AR 15's is a good way to be able to practice and save your battle ammo for that rainy day.
ReplyDeleteMight want to keep your umbrella handy too, I'm just sayin'.
We had a normal turnout to a defensive pistol match in Central Texas on Saturday. About 120 rounds per shooter were expended. I shot .45 ACP where I would have shot 9mm, saving the 9mm for other matches. I intend to keep shooting matches as usual, but I've gone back to reloading after shooting factory 9mm for the past couple years. 50 cents per round now provides a big incentive to reload. I hope I have enough components to last the couple of years I think it'll take for things to get back to normal.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly the opposite I heard from an ammunition marketing guy on the radio. He said people are out using this ammo so industry is gearing up production to meet a new normal of increased number of gun owners going out shooting.
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I've been telling people it's a Triple-Whammy Year:
ReplyDeleteNational election year, and EVERY Democrat candidate for Pres was talking about what all they were going to ban;
The Wuflu hysteria caused a lot of people to think "I should buy that shotgun/rifle/pistol and some ammo, just in case of real trouble";
The riots started; protests not much of anyone would've worried about, but when the riots started, with the asshats declaring "We're coming to the suburbs and country next!", that really screwed it: "I'm buying that (fill in the blank) NOW, and all the ammo I can buy."
My flintlock, underhammers and air rifles have been getting a lot of use lately.
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