.........down at the brand new Super WalMart, a few blocks from the casa. They opened their doors for the first time at 8 AM today.
I stopped in to check the store out, and pick up a loaf of bread. I went by the sporting goods department, and was astounded by the crowd at the ammo counter.
There were, no scheit, over 100 good old boys in line, and the store had not been open 20 min yet!
They had the place set up like Disney World, with those crowd control lines, and lots of store employees helping keep things under control.
Amazing, to see the panic in folks eyes, the sense of urgency, as they grabbed some of this, and some of that.
All the .45 auto, 9mm and .40 S&W was GONE. I over heard one of the managers saying that they were going to have to limit purchases.
At least they are stocking rifles, shotguns and ammo in this new store. The other one, across town, does not stock guns, just ammo.
Prices were ok. New Ruger American rifles, various calibers, were selling for $357. No takers though, everyone there was buying boolits.

Out for a muffin pan and seen a ruckus in sporting goods

http://www.walmart.com/search/searc...search_query=muffin%20pan&_tt=muffin pan

But did you get your case of depends and bottle of Metamucil you went for?

Why don't you guys lighten up a bit........

It's very funny to me that these, and other idiots didnt have the ability to see this coming, it has been braded to their foreheads since Nov. 08.

Gunner

well.....

maybe it because of added phrases (which don't need to be added) to threads like a soldier's return home.






besides, we are all on his his blessed ignore anyway

So you can't ignore things and just have to escalate them? Isn't that what got you into the problem in the first place?

We've got a new Cabela's Outpost Store opening on Feb 14th. I'd be willing to bet people will start lining up 24 hours in advance...

Dang I think Cabela's is going to pull a Herter's here pretty quick...over extend and go belly up....

IMHO ever since Cabela's went corporate they have gone down hill.

I don't even open any Cabela's catalogs that hit my mailbox. With their pricing being what it is, their catalogs go straight to the trash can.

I'm surprised Gander Mountain has survived this long. Thing is there's a GM within a quarter mile of Cabela's.

Yep.

I'm familiar with that GM, AJ. So the new Cabela's is going to be near it?

Better get used to standing in lines, it is a common feature of life in socialist nations.

I had a guy on another forum tell me that the reason he didn't see it coming is tha tObama had never voted for gun control

This is the 4th or 5th gun/ammo panic I've seen since the mid-90's. I was inconvenienced by the first couple (couldn't get enough primers to load my summer IDPA ammo supply), but I was able to get the ammo I needed at gouge-level prices so all it cost me was a bit more money. I started making sure I had a modest inventory of components and ammo on hand after that, though.

When the .223/5.56 shortage hit in 2006, I decided to start keeping a bit more loaded ammo on hand...

Gander Mountain sucks the big one, I'd take Cabela's any day over them. That said, I'd take Sportsman's Warehouse over Cabela's.

Three weeks ago a local Walmart had 4 boxes of Federal Premium 30.06 Barnes Triple Shock 165-gr sitting all by themselves in the ammo-case. People were looking at them and walking away, I snapped-up all 4 boxes (normal price) and the clerk said that would probably be the last of those for the foreseeable future.

Yes. They took over the building Circuit City occupied.

Keith, you'd probably have better luck asking a dingleberry on your dog's asss why it's there. Dingleberries are just dingleberries. Yuh know?

If Cabelas do ever belly up, you talkin bout a bunch of cool guns that will be for sale cheap, have mercy on my soul, call the builders and safe companies, I'm going shopping.

Gunner

When the .223 panic hit in '06 I bought a couple cases of 55 gr ball at about 24 cents per round, which I though was highway robbery at the time... I'd been paying about 15 cents previously.

I called Black Hills and was told their backorder wait time was going to be 14-16 months, and that was for a preferred customer/agency purchase. Turned out the delay was only about 4 months. Doom and gloom predictions tend to be common during these panic-buying episodes.

Almost ran out of Varget a few years ago right in the middle of the competition season. IIRC I paid $34 for a pound. Got 32lbs in storage now...

There was a 223 panic in 2006? Did you mistakenly mean 2008 or was there really one in 2006? Seriously not dogging you but wondering if I forgot it or what.

I remember all the panics you're talking about but can't recall one in 2006. Before O was even elected though, at some point 223 took a big jump from having been $150 a thousand mol to about double that. I can't remember what precipitated it. It had been that price approximately, for years.

Only reason I buy from Cabela's at all is for clothing anymore. I can get tall sizes and I use points a garner from using their CC.

I thought $22 a pound was high....

This ammo craze is ridiculous, ammo isn't going to banned.....

That really is close to GM. I'll bet the GM folks are sweating it-except for the ones who have jumped ship to Cabela's.

OMG!

Just bought 3lbs of Red Dot for my skeet loads for $17 a pound.

Gunner

Back about 1986, I went to the Grand Opening of the Joplin K Mart. It wasn't even THE first day. I was too young to know what a good buy was and too broke to have took much advantage of one if I'd known. There were lines from the registers clear back to the back by sporting goods and electronics. I just elbowed around and got out, went back home.

There ain't nothing left of that store now. It was dozed down before the tornado even.

Around here on Black Fridays you don't see fights break out, but it's crazy enough.

You tell 'em, eh.

It was January 2006. Government purchasing of 5.56 went thru the roof for use in the Sandbox at about that time. I stumbled across the fact of the shortage before it hit the innanet newsgroups.

I recall it pretty well because I was laid up after my 2nd knee replacement and looking forward to a Pat Rogers carbine class in May/06. Ammo requirement was 1500 rounds of 5.56 and another 500 of 45 ACP for the blaster, so I went internet shopping just as the scarcity started and the price started climbing. IIRC, I got a couple cases of 55 gr ball from Stryker's for 21 cents and a couple cases of Russian softpoint 62 gr ammo for 24 cents a round. Black Hills, Federal, Lake City all told me to take a hike when I called (nicely, but still...) even though I was using my sheriff's department account.

It got really tight there, for a while. One of the SWAT teams at that May class had to use their MP5's for the class because they couldn't buy enough 5.56 ammo for their 5 guys.

LOL

you are such a putz. If you put someone on ignore why do you peek?

My comment was obviously above your comprehension level as much as it was above attention deficit disorder's.

You two can go back to your spooning now.

I tried to make the same point last week and got blasted by some for being an idiot...and not endorsing panic buying and stockpiling, even though I don't shoot all that much.


Nothing like self fulfilling a prophecy to prove a point.

I got the primers I needed thanks to a good friend on the fire whom I have never met never met in person. Kind of what I think Rick intended when he called his place a campfire.

It has been truly amazing to watch. Last week or so I was in one and walked by the ammo counter. It was bare (except for a few boxes of .17 and .22wmr and shotgun shells).
There was a handwritten sign saying something along the lines of "In order to serve more of our customers ammo purchases are limited to 3 boxes" or some such. I was in the area for maybe two minutes and saw a few others guys walked up and looked blankly at the shelves for several seconds and walk away. Locally BPS and Academy have people just staring at the empty shelves. It's weird to just see (them).
Ammo isn't bread. It keeps. And it is (was)relatively inexpensive. Why would you not have a relatively long time supply all the time?

I bought enough ammo and reloading supplies

but I can't go to the gun range and enjoy myself. All I think about is how I have to replace what I'm shooting.

Local paper had a slide show of the inside of the new store. Gun racks were full, that won't last long.

I'm figuring the mad dash will be headed for the ammo counter. Anybody ready for a rugby scrum???

The panic attitude is bizzare, pay way to much for stuff and then in a couple months it's all over the shelves everywhere for regular price... the best buys will be this summer when all the fools are selling their crap they shouldn't have stock piled in the first place... We have been through this many times and some people will never learn.... Rookies... The government makes a ton of money off of panic buying.....

at a rapid pace!

LOL!!

Fixed for ya. Actually, I made a few bucks in December selling some of my G17 magazines, but as the prices got insane on Gunbroker I took my ad off... just didn't feel right selling mags for $60+... a buddy of mine in WI who makes a large part of his annual income off GB and private gun/ammo deals has made a fortune in the past 2 months. Cases of .223 going for $1000+... it's crazy!

So you are a skeeter?

That is crazy.

There's an ass for every seat.

No, Im a wanna be aint never gonna be, but it is fun shootin AT them. lol

Gunner

Same here. I've got huge stockpiles, but can't shoot because my policy is to replace as I shoot, and the prices are too high, and availability too low, for that at this time.

I understand the "replace as you go" thought process as that's where I stand as well.

That said.....skills degrade, guns sit there doing nothing, and my kid wants to know why we're not popping primers! [bleep] that!
I'll shoot and replace what I can (buy and load) and maybe wind up a little on the "low" end. My "low" end is still plenty high and I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

George

Things will be in stock before you know it. It's already slowing down around here big time.AR' aren't selling and prices are dropping big time.

Yep, for the first time in a while my local gun shop is actually able to put ARs on their wall racks without them getting bought up before making it there.

Two weeks ago .45acp ammo was nowhere to be found. Connor and I made the rounds today and found it in a couple different stores in decent quantity.

I will continue to shoot.....

George

Those that plan ahead stay ahead of the crowd mentality.

that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Oh well there will be more for the angry negroes to haul off in their pickup trucks.... At least the Feds know you are stockpiling ammo now....