Scotty Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 Witnessed the spectacle yesterday of an ammunition shipment arriving at Walmart. Poor guy wheeled out a cart piled high with ammo and was immediately swarmed. Looked like a bunch of vultures picking over a gazelle carcass. The Walmart guy looked miserable.My entertainment for the weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steves Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 The ammo buying frenzy seems to never be ending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted December 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 I think there is a lot of hoarding going on. I am somewhat guilty myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwillson Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 I don't see any bare ammo shelves around here anymore. just last May/June most stores were either out or extremely short of supply.Wayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLH70 Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 The ammo supply at my local china-mart is still poor, but a few miles away at my local gun store you can get pretty much anything you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moe Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 I went to WM a couple of days ago and they actually had .45 ammo. It was the Federal Champion 230 ball for 15.97 a box. They had 6 boxes and I bought them all. I was just lucky. It's been very spotty on all types of centerfire ammo for the last year at WM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted December 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 I don't see any bare ammo shelves around here anymore. just last May/June most stores were either out or extremely short of supply.Wayne Except for Walmart, you're right. .380 is still tough. Most places have limits. The .380 shortage must be due to lots of concealed carry weapons being sold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-MAN Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 Originally Posted By: wwillsonI don't see any bare ammo shelves around here anymore. just last May/June most stores were either out or extremely short of supply.Wayne Except for Walmart, you're right. .380 is still tough. Most places have limits. The .380 shortage must be due to lots of concealed carry weapons being sold. I was going to take my PPK/S to the range today since I have not shot it in 25 years. Went looking for 380 ammo yesterday. I didn't realize there was a shortage of 380, so I was a bit taken aback when the clerks kept looking at me like I was nuts when I'd ask for a box of 380. I went to 5 different places and no one has any 380. Most said they didn't know when they would be getting any. Academy said February at the earliest. I came back home and bought 2 boxes of Federal 380 on gunbroker.com.I think you're right about concealed carry permits. In the course I took last Saturday, the instructor gave us the latest stats he had for SC: As of October SLED had granted over twice as many CWPs in 2009 as they granted total in 2008.The shortage in 380 has got to be killing the sales of guns chambered for that round. I can't imagine anyone buying a new 380 auto and then being told by the clerk he doesn't have any ammo for it and doesn't know when they will have any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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