Most ridiculous price you've seen on 9mm

[NovaHunter]

For most of us I'm more worried about availability than prices. While I don't like it, competition shooters will find a way to pay almost any ammo price. I mean we're paying $4000 for scopes, $2000 for chassis, $500 for scope mounts, $800 for bipods, $1500 tripods, $4000 spotting scopes, $800 wind meters, $150 for scope caps, $400 for muzzle brakes, $400 for soft rifle cases, $200 for cloth shooting bags, $200 for a strip of arca rail, $300 tripod clamps, the list goes on and on and we're driving it to the range in $80k trucks. Honestly it's amazing ammo companies have not been increasing prices for years already just based on the ridiculous prices we pay for other shooting items.

The groups I really feel bad for are the youth shooting clubs, many had to stop or shutdown teaching/shooting during Obama, not so much because of price but because it doesn't matter how much ammo is when it's out of stock everywhere. The same is true for rifle ranges/clubs they will probably see membership by casual shooters drop significantly unless they can supply ammo. Even if they don't mind paying the prices, most are not going to spend hours surfing gunbroker etc. to find some ammo, they have better things to do, they'll just find another hobby for awhile. That only hurts the overall shooting base which is exactly what the DNC wants.

Also if you think it's going to get better soon.....Vista (CCI/Federal/Blazer) announced earlier this month they currently have a $1 Billion backlog of ammo orders that will take at least a year to catch up on, add to that all the panic buying that's going to happen with Biden and you can forget about seeing normal ammo availability or prices in 2021

Definitely is the younger kids and new shooters that suffer. During the 2012 panic when .22lr prices went crazy, my wife's cousin ran out of .22. He was 12 and went plinking around his extended family's farm after school probably 3 days a week or more. I gave him a 500rd brick, and his family acted like I gave him a brick of solid gold. I was just glad to keep him shooting and practicing....

 

[gunsnjeeps]

I bought 2 cases of CCI Standard Velocity last fall, good price. I got them and opened the cabinet and found 2 cases in the cabinet. I wish I had picked up a case of Federal Automatch also. I was shooting a .22 pistol league but missed a lot due to work travel. This year I just haven't felt like driving to the club after work.