Target Sports Delivering Again - Megathread

Buckshot’s gone... gadzooks that’s fast.

Edit- side note, membership paid for itself
In Ammo savings in less than a month. Add potential $11 shipping to each order and it’s double the $95.
 
Last edited:
p.tice said:
TS just had Winchester 115gr 9mm for $113/500. (22c/round) Sold out in minutes. Prices starting to fall?
Click to expand...

That’s crappy - I set a new notification reminder for that and the 124gr yesterday and it never came through. I received a separate notification earlier this week for the Sig 300BLK that sold out before I could log on. I guess that would’ve happened with the 9mm anyway, so oh well...
 
citoriguy said:
That’s crappy - I set a new notification reminder for that and the 124gr yesterday and it never came through. I received a separate notification earlier this week for the Sig 300BLK that sold out before I could log on. I guess that would’ve happened with the 9mm anyway, so oh well...
Click to expand...

My experience recently has been that text notifications are hours laggy, but email notifications are prompt.
 
murf4321 said:
It won’t get “back to normal” while people keep panic buying.

Just went to Shooters Outpost, clown pricing akin to the great panic of Newtown CT.

No thanks, I’ll just wait until this nonsense ends.
Click to expand...

When do you suppose that might be?
Lots of new gun owners; check
Worldwide pandemic; check
Nationwide rioting; check
3 Months away from an election with far-reaching implications; CHECK

I hope I’m wrong, but me thinks yer gunna be waitin a while.
 
Tinkermatic said:
When do you suppose that might be?
Lots of new gun owners; check
Worldwide pandemic; check
Nationwide rioting; check
3 Months away from an election with far-reaching implications; CHECK

I hope I’m wrong, but me thinks yer gunna be waitin a while.
Click to expand...

The fact that ammo is still available is a really good sign. Manufacturing has ramped up over the past couple years and while there are lots of new shooters - how many of them are going to stockpile more than 1-2k? I think we are already on the backside. If society doesn’t collapse - availability could be OK bu winter with normal prices lagging behind.
 
Mass-diver said:
The fact that ammo is still available is a really good sign. Manufacturing has ramped up over the past couple years and while there are lots of new shooters - how many of them are going to stockpile more than 1-2k? I think we are already on the backside. If society doesn’t collapse - availability could be OK bu winter with normal prices lagging behind.
Click to expand...

If I see ammo go back to the prices I was buying at end of 2019, I will probably take out a small personal loan and go in stupid deep on the stacking.
 
Mass-diver said:
The fact that ammo is still available is a really good sign. Manufacturing has ramped up over the past couple years and while there are lots of new shooters - how many of them are going to stockpile more than 1-2k? I think we are already on the backside. If society doesn’t collapse - availability could be OK bu winter with normal prices lagging behind.
Click to expand...
That could be what saves us for now at least. A lot of normies think that 3-400 rounds is a lot. I'd be willing to bet that a vast majority of new gun owners haven't fired it yet so they don't know how fast a couple hundred rounds go up in smoke.
 
Comments from Bud's Gun Shop and Ammo.com within...

Record-Setting Gun Sales Could Leave Stores Dry
Florida retailer: 'Everything was literally sold out'

Gun sales once again set a new record for the month of June, but some retailers are reporting that the rush on guns and ammunition has drained their stock nearly dry.

An analysis of background check numbers by industry analyst Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting released on Wednesday indicates that more than 2.3 million guns were sold in the United States during June. That's an increase of more than 145.3 percent over June 2019. It's also up from the 1.7 million estimated to have been sold in May, the 1.8 million in April, and just shy of the all-time monthly record of 2.5 million set back in March.

There have now been an estimated 8.3 million firearms sold in the United States since March—a record-setting pace likely to make 2020 the greatest year for gun sales in American history if the trend continues.

Gun and ammunition retailers are having trouble keeping up with the demand as Americans flood stores.

"Obama was the best gun sales in the country they claimed," Brandon Wexler, owner of Wex Gunworks in Delray Beach, Fla., told the Washington Free Beacon. "No, Covid19 is."

He said sales picked up in March and have continued strong since then, with new spikes appearing over the last month.

"Pretty much everything is out of stock," he said. "We have been doing it since the late '70s and have never seen literally no supply available. As of last week, at all major distributors you could not get any guns. Everything was literally sold out. Can’t even get hearing protection."

Rex McClanahan, president of Bud's Gun Shop, one of the largest online gun dealers in the country, said sales exploded in June. Even with his company's considerable reach, he is having trouble stocking the virtual shelves.

"Our sales were within just a few thousand dollars of doubling in June 2020 as compared to 2019," he told the Free Beacon. "Popular guns and ammo SKUs have been sold out for some time and now it is becoming a challenge to keep anything in stock that is among the higher demand categories … things like handguns, home defense shotguns, AR/MSRs and the associated ammo, particularly 9mm."

Windham Taylor, the outreach manager for Ammo.com, one of the largest ammunition dealers in America, said the company experienced the same strains as the gun dealers. Demand for popular self-defense rounds such as 9mm and 223 has kept the store scrambling to find stock to keep their customers supplied.

"Things are not slowing down in the ammo world at all," Taylor told the Free Beacon. "Sales have continued to soar throughout June despite major shortages from nearly all suppliers due to the sustained demand from our customers. We are working hard to keep up with demand and will continue to provide the best customer support possible."

Jurgen Brauer, chief economist for Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting, noted in a statement that the demand for handguns was again the main driver of gun sales in the country—a reversal from just a few years ago which he believes may signal a shift in gun buying as mainly motivated by a desire for self-defense. He said the spike in sales during the first week of June, which the FBI identified as the second-busiest week in the history of their background check system, was "presumably related to the aftermath of the killing of Mr. George Floyd."

The group's gun-sales numbers are based on a review of the number of background checks processed through the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). That system processed more than 3.9 million checks in June, but millions of those are related to gun-carry permit checks or other non-sales. Brauer's group removes what it believes are non-sales from that count to get a more accurate measure of sales—though the count is still not perfect as NICS checks are not required on many private sales of used guns, and multiple guns can be bought during a single check.

Retailers are anxious to see supply catch up to demand, but they are not optimistic they'll be back to full stock anytime soon.

"Distributors and manufacturers are all struggling now, several months into this extremely high demand market," McClanahan said. "The current status of the supply chain is already overwhelmed with both no end to the current demand in sight … and a presidential election coming up in just four months."

"Something has to give because there are no guns at any distributors who we all buy from as FFL dealers," Wexler, who said he's currently operating at about 20 percent stock, told the Free Beacon.

But even as retailers struggle to fill new orders for their customers, all that demand has sent their businesses soaring as well.

"It’s going to be the best year the business has had, no doubt," he said.

From Record-Setting Gun Sales Could Leave Stores Dry
 
Atlantis said:
If I see ammo go back to the prices I was buying at end of 2019, I will probably take out a small personal loan and go in stupid deep on the stacking.
Click to expand...
You know, I thought of how in hindsight I should've bought big back in March when there was to some degree some covid related panic along with the election coming in November. Why would prices go down and why would availability get better as we approached November?

I've been budgeting a monthly ammo purchase for a while now. It would've made sense to have totalled up the amount I was going to buy from March to November and just bit the bullet and got it all done in one fell swoop. Probably would've tripped a red flag somewhere and gotten a knock on the door from someone, but I'd be sitting on a pile of half priced 22, 9mm and 556 right now
 
Tinkermatic said:
When do you suppose that might be?
Lots of new gun owners; check
Worldwide pandemic; check
Nationwide rioting; check
3 Months away from an election with far-reaching implications; CHECK

I hope I’m wrong, but me thinks yer gunna be waitin a while.
Click to expand...

I haven’t a clue when it will be, but I do know people panic buying certainly doesn’t help.

I won’t feed into it. I’ll just shoot from my own inventory as usual and will wait.

Buying ammo in a panic is akin to buying stocks when the market is euphoric and at new all time highs. I’ll just sit until the bottom falls out. It’s all cyclical.
 
murf4321 said:
I haven’t a clue when it will be, but I do know people panic buying certainly doesn’t help.

I won’t feed into it. I’ll just shoot from my own inventory as usual and will wait.

Buying ammo in a panic is akin to buying stocks when the market is euphoric and at new all time highs. I’ll just sit until the bottom falls out. It’s all cyclical.
Click to expand...

I just switched my habits and now I am buying 7.62x39 and guns to shoot that. I refuse to pay the rape fees for 5.56, but the 7.62 still seems pretty reasonable to me. Now I can stack more!
 
Atlantis said:
I just switched my habits and now I am buying 7.62x39 and guns to shoot that. I refuse to pay the rape fees for 5.56, but the 7.62 still seems pretty reasonable to me. Now I can stack more!
Click to expand...

Yep, I just focus more on shooting my guns where the ammo didn't go up a cent
 
murf4321 said:
I haven’t a clue when it will be, but I do know people panic buying certainly doesn’t help.

I won’t feed into it. I’ll just shoot from my own inventory as usual and will wait.

Buying ammo in a panic is akin to buying stocks when the market is euphoric and at new all time highs. I’ll just sit until the bottom falls out. It’s all cyclical.
Click to expand...
It'd be interesting to see a chart comparing the price of a basket of ammo to the daily number of posts in this thread. I'm guessing they'd look pretty similar. Buy when it's quiet, sell in a riot.
 
headednorth said:
It'd be interesting to see a chart comparing the price of a basket of ammo to the daily number of posts in this thread. I'm guessing they'd look pretty similar. Buy when it's quiet, sell in a riot.
Click to expand...

Preach on. I bet the correlation between prices and volume of posts in this thread is damn near 1.
 

Similar threads

Know your target
Replies
4
Views
370
alx
alx
.380 was made great again (.380 Intercepter Taofledermaus)
2
Replies
31
Views
392
Agnotology
Agnotology
Stephanie Brainerd, Mom of Two, Working A Second Job Delivering Pizza, Ambushed, Murdered By “Customers”
Replies
16
Views
690
Broc
Broc
13 Democrat State Attorneys General Target Glock, Decry ‘Machine-Gun Glocks’
Replies
9
Views
369
Reptile
Reptile
Why Are Big Sports Leagues Lobbying Congress For Gun Control?
2
Replies
34
Views
1K
fishgutzy
fishgutzy
Back
Top Bottom