You need to shop around, I just paid a mere $28 and it came with a free gun!
There are some places that still have shit at old prices but those tend to be an exception rather than the rule.
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You need to shop around, I just paid a mere $28 and it came with a free gun!
Go apply for ammo sales license at local PD then open a ammo only store and CRUSH local competition!!!most of the time i try to buy local and support small gun shops, seems like there are 2 in my area jacking up ammo prices by charging more than twice the price; $35 for 40 S&W 50 rds. went to cabelas, hudson ma and they were in shape. $16.99 50 rds. 5 box limit
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Duran Duran shoots both .380 and .25 acp. Probably migrated to 5.7
also keep in mind here in MA even LGS have ammo limits, local fire chief can put further restrictions on them also.
IIRC this is how fourseasons started the ammo trailer sales.
ExactlyAnyone that can roll a lot of ammo cares very little about that garbage, that's not really a huge obstacle in most
cases. The real obstacle right now is.... just getting ammo. Like as in, getting... anything.
35 dollars for 50 rounds is the new normal, get used to it.
As to Cabela's, they may have had a ten year contract with a manufacturer to make their store brand ammo, and the manufacturer is now getting the sh*t end of the stick selling to them at 10 dollars a box when their manufacturing cost all in is double that
I am a millenial, I DESERVE cheap ammo."I demand cheap ammo... and plenty of it! " ~Enbloc
Ok boomer. Keep it all for yourself.I am a millenial, I DESERVE cheap ammo.
I get that, but its all tied in. Lets say local Fire chief is a ammo douche and says to local store you can only store 50,000 rounds total. No primers or powder. One of a few things that put a local shop here out and another moved to NH because of the BS that the can be pulled.Anyone that can roll a lot of ammo cares very little about that garbage, that's not really a huge obstacle in most
cases. The real obstacle right now is.... just getting ammo. Like as in, getting... anything.
Your small local shop doesn't buy from the manufacturer, they buy from a distributor/ middleman. An additional layer of retail markup. At $12.99 a box pre covid, the shop was probably making $2-$3 a box. At $35 a box, they're probably making $4-$5 a box. It looks like they're making more profit but are they really? The shop is laying out 3X they amount of money and tying up his $$$$. Not only that, the shop can't rely on volume to make up the difference.
I was at the Mill on Saturday and was shooting the shit with one of the shops. He had 9mm ammo at $40 a box. He told me he was making $5 a box, but he had to lay out almost $700 a case. I have no reason to think he wasn't telling the truth. You buy 10 cases and that's alot of dough.
I get that, but its all tied in. Lets say local Fire chief is a ammo douche and says to local store you can only store 50,000 rounds total. No primers or powder.
The guy I was talking to probably got raped on the price because it was all he could get from a distributor he doesn't usually use. I bet the distributors are making more than the actual shops.Some dealers are making way more than that per box but you have to temper that with the fact that they're not getting shit, so the amount of money they make in a given amount of time is
likely not that much different than when the ammo was cheap, and in many cases, it might be a lot worse. Also IMHO ammo drives gun sales too. The only reason a lot of shops have guns
left is because ammo is a pain in the ass to get.
The guy I was talking to probably got raped on the price because it was all he could get from a distributor he doesn't usually use. I bet the distributors are making more than the actual shops.
Full Cosby has got to be the quote of this threadYes, there are entire tiers of distribution that sit around waiting for bad shit like this to happen. Then they go full cosby when they can.
You enjoy your free houses and not having to work for anything boomer. They just handed you everything. LolI am a millenial, I DESERVE cheap ammo.
The real obstacle right now is.... just getting ammo. Like as in, getting... anything.
Yeah one of my LGS is just 1 guy. He gets so many calls from people he never heard of. BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR GUN GUY OR GALThe small shops are really struggling to get ammo. Unobtainium just like everyone else. Every time I'm in one, they are fielding calls and questions about inventory-heck, one even has an inventory board hung by the door and says check the board before asking.
Yeah one of my LGS is just 1 guy. He gets so many calls from people he never heard of. BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR GUN GUY OR GAL
And he’s also free to communicate his findings on prices.If price is too high
Then you don't buy.
They're free to set the price, you're free to move along to another store. In two years, if the overpriced LGS is gone, you were right.
and oil... who said anything about oil? you cookin'?Cosby: "Did somebody say barbecue sauce? I got a cup of it up on the nightstand, breathing. "
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Are you really suggesting that it co$t$ the big boys (Winchester, Federal, PMC, Remington, etc.) $20 a box to manufacture ammo? These firms are not exactly paying gunbroker prices for primers that they manufacture.35 dollars for 50 rounds is the new normal, get used to it.
As to Cabela's, they may have had a ten year contract with a manufacturer to make their store brand ammo, and the manufacturer is now getting the sh*t end of the stick selling to them at 10 dollars a box when their manufacturing cost all in is double that