Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Here is what happened to alot of the ammo hording

Well there is a big chasm between the value of what someone pays for it and it's real world useful value. And some people are going to be pretty damn disappointed when they find out.

Whatever he/she deems it to be, perhaps?

It wasn't uncommon for a few years to have to pay $4-5 a round for 375 Winchester that I hunted with due to scarcity and lack of manufacture. I shot so few it didn't bother me but I bought all I could find at anything less than $60 a box. Eventually someone wanted it at $100 a box so I sold it all and handload now.

Nobody thought it would change in the foreseeable future but it can be found today for less than 30-30 ammo! $60 a box for 30-30! That schit is common as dirt. Maybe it's because so many people have a 30-30 that demand is so high. Crazy.

I’m so glad the guy selling boiled peanuts at the gun show is doing so much for my gun rights.

God bless him.

And then hazmat on that !

I picked up this older set of Lee Carbide dies at a pawn shop a while back. They were asking $20 and I jewed them down a couple bucks off of that. They had been sitting on the shelf for a while and I got them, there's still good deals out there.

He's hoarding all the spaces

I hope you tipped the guy with the headset doing the wok demonstrations in the corner when you walked by.

So you jewed the down huh?

Just think, if you you were black you could have just stole the MF'rs.

Ha!! Owner carries a 1911 on his hip and he's got a clear shot to the front door from his counter. Owner's a good guy, loves to go duck hunting. He's gave me several good deals when I bundled a few items and asked for a discount and he always throws in a roll of nice paper targets, too.

Lol.

Capitalism.

When demand recedes, prices will go down.

Geez. What a concept.

It’s worth what someone will pay

You don't have to pay asking price.

Make an offer. Go from there.

If all the buyers at the gun show got in that mindset, prices would come down.

As to your first question.....I buy it at the store or online. You do know that everything you need you can buy at local shops or online? There’s more than just gunshows for places where you can buy gun stuff, beef jerky, jewelry cleaner and anarchists cookbooks. I am sure that there are some great gun shows across the country and my disgust only applies to the ones I’ve gone to in Washington. They used to be fun but it’s turned into a crap fest. Terrible prices and the participants are a notch below retarded.

As to your second assertion, If you worship your local gun show as a leader in the 2A rather than a business that makes compulsory and at best peripheral contributions to the cause then it’s obvious that you and I have fundamentally different expectations as to the power of gun shows. Gun shows have allowed themselves to be used and manipulated by a corrupt media and in my opinion they’ve done more harm than good despite however much of OUR money that they’ve “donated” and written off to the NRA.

Just like the NRA, I wouldn’t lose any sleep if both were to be replaced by better organizations. They both have outlived their usefulness and forgotten their mission.imho

Again.....that’s been my experience and observations. I worked in the firearm industry for going on 2 decades and I’ve watched the decline and loss of focus.

IMO, the best thing that can happen RE: current pricing, is for the general (gun show) public to see mountains of it on the Slack-Jaw's table. My reasoning being that some folks will figure out that if Slack-Jaw the Cheeto-stained ManBearPig can obtain ammo, maybe they can find some on their own as well.

The price won't come down until Slack-Jaw the Cheeto-stained ManBearPig has no "room" left on his/momma's CC and also cannot make the minimum payment. At that point it's time to fire sale or pawn the ammo for baby formula and more Cheetos.

Ball ammo for Ball Joints. #90'sBonneville/Astrovan.

Late summer of 2014, Carlisle Productions held an "outdoors-oriented" flea market at the Fair grounds where they've been staging collector car shows for decades. That was due to the previous February's Outdoors show at the Harrisburg Farm Show complex being cancelled.They sensed there was a need for a such show, just held it too early. A fall show might've worked better? Didn't fit their car show schedules.

Following the Dec. 2013 CT school shooting, the promoter of the Harrisburg Outdoors Show faced a huge vendor "mutiny" over their decision to ban all "black rifles" and related gear. So they canceled the 2014 show. The next year NRA took over that nine day show in February and it continues, although this year's show was canceled due to the Corona virus restrictions.

The first Carlisle weekend outdoor show was pretty well attended by vendors, but didn't attract enough paying customers to keep it going. Same weekend they had the show on the fairgrounds, there was an indoor gun show across the road at the Expo Center.

Vendors at the Fairgrounds were charging crazy prices for ammo and ARs. Saw 22LR Auto Match going for $30 to $40. ARs as high as $1,000 for common variants, mostly used ones. Meanwhile across the road at the Expo Center, Auto Match was $18. Two dealers had stacks of NIB Bushmaster and DPMS ARs starting at $699, IIRC?.

Not the first time I've seen insane prices for ammo and firearms, won't be the last.

Local pawn had a ratty 1100 for 699. Actual worth a year ago, 250.

Watched 20k primers on here bought for a fair price (65$ per 1k)go to a gun show nut the other day... seller was 3 hours from me and I would have bought a few thousand. Missed it..

I'm sure this guy will have a booth at the next gun show in central PA selling primers for 200$ per 1k..

Those of you that refuse to go to a gunshow, we sure havent miss you one damn bit.everyone is packed .

I never understood guys that drive 100 miles to a big box gun store to buy a things but bitch about paying 10 buck to get in a gunshow that usually has the stuff cheaper.

"ManBearPig" now that is funny, made me chuckle