My home club will sell 5 boxes of shells to shoot a round of 100. I take advantage of that each time, which gains me a few shells each round. I buy them from my club at $8.50/box. That said, I have curtailed some of my sporting clays shooting. I'm still shooting just enough to hopefully "keep my hand in" and be competitive when I shoot some competitive events this spring.
I have plenty of shells for hunting, for a couple/three years, and can load more if needed with supplies on hand. To be quite honest, the shortage hasn't affected my shooting as much as the price increases because of the shortage has. When I drive 80 miles round trip to shoot a round of sporting (at $.54/mile), shoot four boxes at $8.50/box, and pay $25 for the round, I've dunked $102. That gives me pause, to say the least.
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