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This, and the highlighted part is what I can't get my mind around.

A trickle I can understand, but the seemingly total absence in some places for an extended period is what I can't fathom.

You can't hoard what you can't find and buy.

Paul

Try to look on the bright side and that is, sooner or later all these knuckleheads will be offering the sale of the Century !!!!

Interesting, there has never been NOTHING here in my area of Texas. Yes maybe a couple of weeks of no one having some, but you could almost always find a few boxes if you looked at all the local places often enough.

Even now there is ammo around. Actually more in the last 3 months or so than it had been for some time, but as noted, its around.

Wonder if someone actually had the number of folks that sold ammo in the US? I bet that 10 billion rounds, divided into 500 round bricks normally, ain't gonna be that much ammo really in hte end spread over 365 dyas of a year.

But then again I think that most of it dissappears in the cities. The exact ones that elected this [bleep] to office. They reap what they sew for that part of it anyway.

You think they are getting all this ammo from distributors ?

I just have a hard time wrapping my head around this. If just the other 3 major US rimfire makers...CCI, WW, Federal...are cranking out similar numbers as Remington then we're talking 10 BILLION rounds in the last year! I personaly don't know anyone that is hoarding, mainly because they can't find any. The range officer at the local range said rimfire usage there has declined significantly in the last year because of the shortage. How many of you guys are holding large quantities? I probably have around 1500-2000 rounds, but they were purchased long before any shortages.

Interesting, there has never been NOTHING here in my area of Texas. Yes maybe a couple of weeks of no one having some, but you could almost always find a few boxes if you looked at all the local places often enough.

Even now there is ammo around. Actually more in the last 3 months or so than it had been for some time, but as noted, its around.

Wonder if someone actually had the number of folks that sold ammo in the US? I bet that 10 billion rounds, divided into 500 round bricks normally, ain't gonna be that much ammo really in hte end spread over 365 dyas of a year.

But then again I think that most of it dissappears in the cities. The exact ones that elected this [bleep] to office. They reap what they sew for that part of it anyway.

Some are. Some aren't.


Travis

If 2 mil people buy 5000 rounds it adds up to 10 BIL.

If you have 20,000 rounds already QUIT BUYING.......

So if that is really the case how far out do backorders have to be until you put more money into additional/larger production facilities and increase supply? With a 2 year backorder you would think any increase in production would increase revenue the same amount.

Yeah, except there's probably more like 50 million people trying to buy ammo. Say a plant is turning out 6 million rounds a day. That's 2.19 Billion a year, if they run 365 days a year. If divided equally amongst those 50 million people (just a flying guess there), it would come out to 43.8 rounds of ammo per person, per year, from that plant.

How many plants are making 22 ammo in the US, three or four? It's not hard to see why there's a shortage, when some folks are buying 10s of thousands of rounds.