We order from Dawsons - no problem with any powder,shot, wads. Was told the Cheddites weren't in but we can get Noble Sport if Cheddites don't come in by next week. I believe the big run is on pistol and rifle stuff which could effect primers, but that's about all. Our order is through the club for members.

We pay $105/8#700X - Promo $86/8# - Cheddites or Noble Sport $110/5000 - shot 39.50 a bag - wads are in the $86 range for 5000 depending on the type. I don't know what I'd do if I had to pay the higher prices some of you are quoting. The wife and I shot over 22,000 shells a year. Guess I'd really have to cut back.

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Larry, that's only 18 boxes a week - when the daughter and granddaughter were shooting I was reloading close to 40 boxes a week. Glad that's over.

Paul, You are "Da man". With that volume of shooting do you have a Tri-Axle just back up to your garage and dump a few ton's of shot?.....:rotf:

My son-in-law and two grandsons shot about 30,000 targets last year. :eek: It's none of my business, but I hope he's providing for my daughter and the kids' college.

Sounds like his priories are in order. Keep em busy, less time for mischief. Dave, you'd think I'd learn something with that much shooting but NO. We spend too much time teasing each other.

our club is out of most powder only a few boxes of primers left. but we do have a good supply of Remington target loads. lead is in good supply at 46.00 a bag. the price of shot is killing me. I like to shoot so all I can do is complain.

Our order came in - everything but a can or two of pistol powder. We usually get between 6 and 7000 $ worth of shotgun reloading supplies. Everything had gone up a bit - $4 for a brick of primers, 3 or $4 for 5000 wads, shot was 39.50 a bag. It doesn't seem all that long ago I could buy 20 bags of shot for under $400. How time flies when you're having fun.

glad your order came in...hard to get supplies around here..i pick up enough to keep me going but lead is hard to come by... charlie

As far as RST is concerned I believe they are in the same quandary when it comes to getting material for loading, I called and ordered a flat of 20ga spreader and a flat of 28g a got an e-mail from Alex said the order could not be filled now, but hope he could fill it in 3-4 weeks Gary

I believe their shortage is the inability to get powder at this time. Much the same as the rest of us.

That makes me wonder what they will have on hand to sell at Hausman's Hidden Hollow in a few weeks, quite few folks simply buy the shells they use when they get there.

Pete,
At the Southern a couple of weeks ago they just about completely emptied their truck by Saturday. I know they were completely out of several items and low on most others. I'm sure they will be restocked by the time Ernie’s shoot comes around.

I'm sure RST will be able to supply us with sufficient ammunition to satisfy us at Ernie's. Alex, Jill, and Morris have so many friends in the shooting community that their quest for components will be satisfied regardless of whether their normal channels dry up or not.

I'd have to believe RST uses a powder also in big demand for pistol shells. Just about any true shotgun powders are avaible through Dawsons.

I was talking with owner of a small gun shop last night who provides a great deal of the reloading supplies and shells used at the gun club I frequent the most. He said he did not know when his next load of lead shot would come in and mentioned the distributor he uses has 168,000+ bags of shot on back order.

Was up to Cabelas in Me last week and plenty of shot, ditto at Riley's.

I placed an order with the local wholesale store a few weeks ago and they said it would be mid sept. for me to get it. They are also back ordered by many a thousand bags. I just ordered a bag from bownells to get me by until then. They only wanted a little bit more than I pay from the wholesaler and I was placing an order anyway for some other stuff.

One local gun shop had 3 bags of 9 shot on hand. But they wanted like $55 each for them. I'm not that hard up.

I just paid $45 a bag for magnum shot at my local skeet range. He had plenty.

I have been a frequent customer of Graf & Son and Midway for many years. They send out e-mails when items arrive, but they are sold out by the time I read the note and go to their website, and I check my e-mail frequently! I have been finding primers and bullets at smaller, lesser-known outfits, for non-gouging prices.

I went to the Kittery Trading Post again last night, almost all powders out of stock, 100% of shotgun powders out of stock. There were half dozen bags of shot, all #6, price has increased to $54.99 plus 5% Maine sales tax. This is the highest retail price on a bag of shot I have ever seen.

I still have not seen a box or a brick of 22 LR this year. We will in a few short weeks have lost the entire summer for great number of youth to learn or practice shooting with a 22 in formal and informal settings. IMO the continued lack of availability of 22 rimfire is a very big threat to the future of shooting sports as we go forward.

Pete, I agree on the .22's! I have been traveling and have looked along the way for .22's anywhere I had the chance to stop and look. I looked here in New Hampshire (and Maine), Pennsylvania, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Louisiana as I traveled. I went into big box stores and little gun shops I saw along the way and I only saw one box of .22s.

I am shooting .22 tomorrow and will probably be out of ammunition when I return home.

I bought a brick of Winchester 209s at KTP last tuesday, and paid $45. Saw it friday in NY for $36.50. Shot was $48, plenty of powder.

None of this shortage is good. But it seems to be very regional/area sensitive. Or maybe just luck. I have no problem finding powder (albeit not my preferred type) and most primers. both at slightly elevated prices of course. But a $54 bag of shot is better than NO bag of shot.

I was at Gander Mountain this week and bought a brick of federal 22s for $2.59 a box. Their ammo shelves were full .

Maybe some of the vendors aren't pushing the manufacturers and suppliers hard enough to get their shelves filled. You'd think a high-volume store like KTP would have enough buying power (leverage) to get more than they do.

the walmart store in my area gets a coupls shipments a week of 22 ammo but people stand in line to buy it and it s allways the same people standing in line..most of them are just hoarding it up they dont hunt or shoot and want sell it either...walmarts here at home has plenty of shotgun and high power rifle shells but no 22 or pistol ammo on the shelf..people buy it fast as they open the boxes..i can not hardley get any kind of lead or shotgun poowder in my area..but i see plenty of powder on line at high prices... charlie

The truck is backing up for our little group tomorrow morning. I'll let you guys know what was on it.

I was just at the largest gun store in my area. Plenty of powder and wads. I bought 2 boxes of 45ACP HP ammo but no 22 ammo.

Graf and Son recently had some 22 short cartridges. They were made for the Polish Olympic Team! They were priced right, and I needed some for my Winder musket. It has since sold out.

I'm looking for a brick of Fiocchi primers if any one runs across them.
Thanks Bob

Bob, Bob S. has CCI that are same dia. as Fiocchi, I think 130.00 for 5000/ I just pick some up about 2 weeks ago

I just saw Fiochis. Since KTP was the last place I've been, I think, it must have been them. Or maybe it was Ballistic Products. CRS sucks.

all the powder and lead shot seems to be in the hands of scaliwags... lots of powder for sale on the auction sites but at about double the price... charlie

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I was at a local gun store today looking for some misc things and to my surprise they had Remington Peters 1-1/8 oz x 3 dram in both 7-1/2 and 8 for $6 a box. These are those beautiful medium blue compression formed hulls like the old AA's. With these prices for shot, primers and powder and the time it takes to load them, I'm not sure buying factory ammo isn't cheaper in the long run. He had 275 flats and those hulls are very reloadable. Although I don't shoot 30,000 rounds a year.

I have gone through 10 bags of shot this summer so far. Only another month on the sporting clays courses then its bird season:) Maybe once fall gets here things will loosen up some.

't know if it is a sign of things to come but I was in wally world today and the ammo case was almost full. No 22s but almost everything else. I ordered a case of 16 ga from RST and they wernt backordered. They came right in had them in 3 days.

called around and found one shop that said they had the powder I wanted, stopped in and they brought out a pound of powder, I said might as well get two, and was told that was the last one.

then I remembered that I was almost out of primers, he said they had two boxes, and they have been in back order for four months. I took both.

The delivery we just got had Top Guns $56.50 a flat, shot in mid thirties, W209 for $31.50, Thunderbolts for $21.00 a brick. I may be set for life at the rate I'm shooting.