Inconsistencies in ammo pricing from various sources

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Originally Posted by Martinjmpr

It's kind of like gasoline. I have a 4x4 truck with a 36 gallon tank (F-150) and a motorcycle. When I fill the truck, I damn well make sure I'm finding the cheapest fuel I can because I'm buying a lot.

But when I'm on the bike? I literally don't even look at the price of fuel. I'm buying probably 2 1/2 gallons at a time so even a $.50 increase in fuel cost isn't going to cost me more than a buck or so, not enough to worry about.

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This is a pretty good comparison. The difference under the supply / demand curve changes dramatically when the scale of the commodity is considered. If I had bought 10 cases of 9mm from Natchez at $155 back in early 2019 and sold them today for $500 apiece, that's a 322% difference worth $3450. If I only bought 200 rounds, it's still 322%, but it might not register as objectionable or unreasonable to the buyer who...and follow along here, folks...DEMANDS it.

This is all just craziness to many of use who have weathered the last 3 panics and are sitting on Red-Flag levels of ammo supplies, but to new gun buyers, they just don't know any better. I like to think I learned a little in 2008, and quite a bit in 2012, and then started building my ammo fort around my TP castle which houses my lowers. Gators for the moat are getting as scarce as M855, so those are on back order.

Good insight into the LGS business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqeG-pUH9UU

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Originally Posted by Mtneer

Good insight into the LGS business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqeG-pUH9UU

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sounds like the small stores around here. When even the 410 single shots are not available. It's basically the buyer, grabbing anything they can. He mentioned J&G. while they do have some decent prices. Their sales staff is horrendous. Picture walmart or home depot, when looking for a sales associate.

I finally got around to getting my clearance to get on the air base at Altus. Went over to the BX and discovered that's the nicest gun shop in the entire area. Well stocked with tons of guns and some ammo...tho they only allow 1 or 2 boxes of any caliber to be bought at one time. I wound up buying 2 guns...a Ruger LCP II .22 and a Ruger 57. And ammo for both. I didn't need the .22 but for $2.49 a box I figured why not? It's a pain in the ass to follow all of their rules, but no sales tax takes some of the hurt away.

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Originally Posted by Mtneer

Good insight into the LGS business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqeG-pUH9UU

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That was an interesting video. At those margins its a wonder gun stores can stay in business. I went to a couple places that sell firearms yesterday. They seemed relatively well stocked - with firearms that is. Ammo supply was pitifully small. I think the gun market around here is likely saturated. Anyway, cool video.

Thanks for sharing.

Got an email from CDNN saying they had ammunition in stock. Rather than price it and sell it they have it listed on gunbroker up for bid. I looked at some 1200 round cases of 9mm they had listed and two of them were bid over $800 and one was creeping up on $700. Crazy.

Some of the firearm prices are start to get normalize.

I just picked up brand new glock 1x FS for $530.

Sadly I am not qualified for blue label anymore.

Been looking for .22 and .22 mini mag but nowhere to be found for under .25/round. Any other options besides ammoseek?

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Originally Posted by callerys

Been looking for .22 and .22 mini mag but nowhere to be found for under .25/round. Any other options besides ammoseek?

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Cabelas right now. 500 rds less than $50

Midwayusa's fixed or nearly fixed ammo contracts must have been fulfilled, because ammo that they had been selling at ~$18 per box pretty recently is now ~$35 per box.