ChoppedLiver
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The ammunition drought has been going on for quite some time now since the federal guberment started buying up all the ammo. several years ago.
I mean like how they bought about a quarter trillion rounds of .223 and 9mm for the postal service and such.
But, as of late, the shortage is letting up just a bit and the prices are still somewhat high.
.22 ammunition is still somewhat difficult to find.
And then this...
While cruising around shopping, I visited a store called "Prep and Save" ( http://www.prepandsave.com/upland/ ) in Upland, California yesterday morning.
The signs outside called themselves a "survival store".
I went in to peruse their merchandise. They had the usual stuff... water storage, water filters, MRE's & dehydrated foods, cooking gear, canned water, etc... And all of it was kind of pricy for the most part.
They also had a small assortment of popular firearm ammunition at the centralized check-out counter.
On the glass case over the ammo., there was a notice about .22 ammunition which (essentially) read...
"Due to the shortage of .22 ammunition, we can only offer 50 count "premium" Federal brand ammunition."
The price is...get this...$49.95. (Yes, forty nine ninety five!)
But there's more...
"In order to get that "special" price of $49.95, you had to buy $100.00 in non-ammunition merchandise to get the $49.95 price!"
I asked the clerk if this was for real and she said that it was. And the funny part, she said, was there are actually people who have paid that price!
I was in Dicks Sporting Goods in Palm Desert Thursday morning and they had a small amount of .22's. They didn't have 330 or 500-550 count bricks that I usually get for plinking ammo. They just had boxes of 50 for $6.99 which I passed on. (They had .45 auto for $20.00 which I did get as well as some 00 buck [12 gauge] and rifled slugs for pretty cheap.)
If you don't believe me, call the store at the link I provided above and ask them.
(Maybe I have fallen into Prep & Saves scam by advertising the store and talking about it, like I'm doing now. Who knows?)
I mean like how they bought about a quarter trillion rounds of .223 and 9mm for the postal service and such.
But, as of late, the shortage is letting up just a bit and the prices are still somewhat high.
.22 ammunition is still somewhat difficult to find.
And then this...
While cruising around shopping, I visited a store called "Prep and Save" ( http://www.prepandsave.com/upland/ ) in Upland, California yesterday morning.
The signs outside called themselves a "survival store".
I went in to peruse their merchandise. They had the usual stuff... water storage, water filters, MRE's & dehydrated foods, cooking gear, canned water, etc... And all of it was kind of pricy for the most part.
They also had a small assortment of popular firearm ammunition at the centralized check-out counter.
On the glass case over the ammo., there was a notice about .22 ammunition which (essentially) read...
"Due to the shortage of .22 ammunition, we can only offer 50 count "premium" Federal brand ammunition."
The price is...get this...$49.95. (Yes, forty nine ninety five!)
But there's more...
"In order to get that "special" price of $49.95, you had to buy $100.00 in non-ammunition merchandise to get the $49.95 price!"
I asked the clerk if this was for real and she said that it was. And the funny part, she said, was there are actually people who have paid that price!
I was in Dicks Sporting Goods in Palm Desert Thursday morning and they had a small amount of .22's. They didn't have 330 or 500-550 count bricks that I usually get for plinking ammo. They just had boxes of 50 for $6.99 which I passed on. (They had .45 auto for $20.00 which I did get as well as some 00 buck [12 gauge] and rifled slugs for pretty cheap.)
If you don't believe me, call the store at the link I provided above and ask them.
(Maybe I have fallen into Prep & Saves scam by advertising the store and talking about it, like I'm doing now. Who knows?)
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