Ammo Found!

On my lunch break today I went on a quest for .223 ammo.  Ever since the Newtown shooting, ammo has been hard to find and prices have skyrocketed.  Today I found some at a little hunting/fishing shop in town that isn’t really well known.  I talked to the guy running the place for about 30 minutes and we really hit it off.  I ended up walking out of there with a bunch of .223 WPA Polyformance and some Golden Bear 7.62×39.

The best part is that he bought a huge amount of ammo before the election in November and at a really low price.  As a result, his ammo was the cheapest I’ve seen anywhere right now.  He admitted that he raised the price a bit after the shooting but only slightly.  I didn’t mind.  Demand increases price.  His price was still a good bit lower than the prices I’ve seen.

He is also limiting how much ammo he lets people walk out with at one time.  He says it’s to prevent people from buying all his ammo just to sell online at a huge increase in price.  He sets out a certain amount each day and it’s first come first serve.

I was apparently the first today.  I didn’t buy everything he had because I know how hard ammo is to find and I want some local people to be able to shoot just like I want to be able to.  No sense in hoarding when I now have more than enough to easily last me through 2013.

So let this be motivation to not give up!  There’s still ammo out there, you just have to find it.  Look hard in every corner of every shop.  Be persistent.  Hopefully this situation dies down a little soon so prices return to normal and availability returns.

Ammo Shortage

 So after the weekend shooting, I’m completely out of ammunition.  I talked with Ryan and we decided that we should buy some bulk ammo and try to have it shipped here before the end of the week so that we can shoot again before he goes back to the Guard.

That was a great plan…until I went online.

Last year the brand was readily available everywhere.  Apparently this is a terrible time to buy ammo.  All the places I usually buy from are on backorder.  The only place that I could find the TulAmmo that I usually buy were sites that charge way more than I’m used to paying.  On my lunch break today I’ll be going by both of our local Walmarts to buy all the 20 round boxes that they have in stock.  That’s assuming they have any.

 Maybe it’s become a lot more popular since then.  Guess I should’ve stocked up when I had the chance.  There were a few places that were offering the Wolf ammo for pretty much the same price I normally buy the Tula for.  I’m just worried about buying that stuff, especially in bulk.  All my experience with it has been bad. I know from reading online that some of the Wolf comes from a factory that also produces Tula. I’m assuming what I shot wasn’t the same as the Tula since it didn’t seem as good.

That being said, I didn’t shoot very much of it so I guess I could’ve just had a bad few boxes.  Maybe while I’m at Walmart, I’ll buy a box or two of Wolf and see if I can do a test of it to see how it matches up to what I’ve been shooting.