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Carencro Gun Show - Good Lord
Posted on 1/24/21 at 9:25 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 9:25 am
I haven’t been to one in a while and I knew prices would be high but I’ve never seen anything like yesterday.
I’ve been going to shows since the early 90s and it wasn’t anywhere close to this bad when the Assault Weapons ban was being debated.
Parked vehicles stacked up several blocks on either side of the service road in front of the Sports Arena. Crowded as hell inside.
Prices were amazing. $525 for a half case of 5.56. Hornady 6.5 Creedmore for $75 per box.
Most pistol ammo a dollar per round.
I am glad I stocked up the last few years.
I’ve been going to shows since the early 90s and it wasn’t anywhere close to this bad when the Assault Weapons ban was being debated.
Parked vehicles stacked up several blocks on either side of the service road in front of the Sports Arena. Crowded as hell inside.
Prices were amazing. $525 for a half case of 5.56. Hornady 6.5 Creedmore for $75 per box.
Most pistol ammo a dollar per round.
I am glad I stocked up the last few years.
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Posted on 1/24/21 at 9:47 am to LongueCarabine
I keep reading wait until prices drop, but this time feels different than the previous panic buying.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 9:49 am to LongueCarabine
Always found gunshots to be a little on the trashy side
Posted on 1/24/21 at 9:55 am to LongueCarabine
How was the stock on dream catchers?
Posted on 1/24/21 at 10:02 am to KemoSabe65
Well, thanks for your input. Couldn’t do without it.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 10:06 am to LongueCarabine
quote:
Most pistol ammo a dollar per round.
Sooo, normal gun show prices?
Posted on 1/24/21 at 10:10 am to LongueCarabine
Freaking hoarder...
Just kidding. I am as well and not worried about the shortage other than shotgun shells for my sons trap.
Just kidding. I am as well and not worried about the shortage other than shotgun shells for my sons trap.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 10:15 am to bbvdd
I have found tons of skeet loads at Wally any time I need them.
I will say, I am stocking up when this hysteria cools down and/or as I get retail priced opportunities.
I will say, I am stocking up when this hysteria cools down and/or as I get retail priced opportunities.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 10:26 am to CharlesLSU
quote:
I have found tons of skeet loads at Wally any time I need them.
I will say, I am stocking up when this hysteria cools down and/or as I get retail priced opportunities.
Which Walmart baw.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 10:30 am to jlovel7
quote:
Which Walmart baw.
No kidding
My son went to Walmart and academy last night and found .28 gauge and .222 remington. That’s it
Look online. Nothing in lead shot 12g can be found.
This post was edited on 1/24/21 at 11:49 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 11:09 am to bbvdd
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My son went to Walmart and academy last night and found .28 gauge and .222 remington. That’s it
I went to Academy in Shreveport a week or so ago. A few boxes of 28 gauge shells was the only ammo on the shelf, and the firearms display had about 1/3 the ordinary number.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 11:47 am to CharlesLSU
quote:Just for the record, target loads at personal defense distances (meaning, distances inside your home) should be pretty darn devastating. You don't NEED slugs or buckshot at 7 yds. Now, you do for distances that are greater, but I wouldn't want to be trying to convince any courts I HAD to shoot someone 25 yds away from me.
I have found tons of skeet loads at Wally any time I need them.
Regarding prices... yeah, this is worse than the Clinton AWB period. We've seen 3 big spikes in the past year, each time kicking prices up and lowering availability.
1st was Covid, during the toilet paper and Lysol/rubbing alcohol run. That's when the prices moved, and availability got sketchy. If you knew how, you could still get decent prices; and at that point I did top off the tanks. I was even able to add new calibers and firearms to the mix, for what wasn't terrible prices at any point. I was able to find brass 9mm for 20 cts a rd, steel was 16 cents, brass 556 was 37 cents, steel was 25 cents.
Covid run was settling down, ammo that was backordered was shipping, and prices and availability were catching up... and the riots started. That was the 2nd spike, and it was when 9mm jumped to over 60 cents a rd and kept trickling upwards, if you could ever find it.
That was the point where any "normal deals" ended for any mainstream caliber.
At this point, watching the insanity develop, I got creative. I have a couple surplus handguns that run common 9x19 Luger ammo; but they initially had been designed to run something else. In both cases, the only requirement to change calibers was to swap the barrels out. I was able to locate those barrels for reasonable (about $60 apiece), and then- the other, more obscure caliber ammo was still cheaper than current 9mm prices. I scooped up what I could of that, before others got the same idea.
Just a little insurance, I guess.
3rd spike seems to be happening now, and is election-based. As noted, 9mm or 223 is running a dollar a rd or more.
People are scared, and it's unclear how much they are.
You can't discuss this online too much- on popular gun forums, site administrators were killing threads left and right for any discussion of the shortages. That seemed a bit draconian, until you realize why- as when arf.com got shut down by their cloud servers.
Everything seems to funnel through Amazon, Microsoft and Google servers, and if you "violate their conditions", they can drop your website.
So nobody was allowed to even discuss Biden's plans regarding gun control, for example. If you did, you were putting the whole forum in jeopardy.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 11:55 am to Scoob
Mr G&G on YouTube had a video Removed of him literally reading Biden’s website and his proposed gun legislation
Posted on 1/24/21 at 12:07 pm to LongueCarabine
quote:
Parked vehicles stacked up several blocks on either side of the service road in front of the Sports Arena. Crowded as hell inside.
I passed by yesterday coming home from work and was amazed by the amount of cars parked along the service road. I’ve never seen that many.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 12:42 pm to jimbeam
quote:It's crazy what you see happening online.
Mr G&G on YouTube had a video Removed of him literally reading Biden’s website and his proposed gun legislation
Imagine being a member of, say, a Corvette forum, where everyone posts pics of their cars, and swaps info on how best to maintain and tweak them.
And someone runs for president, explicitly saying in clear open words, on his own website, that he intends to ban any engines larger than a 4-cylinder right now, and his longterm plan is to eliminate gasoline engines entirely in favor of electric cars (and by long-term, I mean during the course of his administration).
And any attempt to try to post your concerns about this on the forum is blocked, and you are told you will be banned if you do it again. Even though what you are trying to discuss, is the actual reason that forum exists, at the root of it.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 1:17 pm to PillageUrVillage
There is a gun show coming up in a few weeks in Alabama I thought about going to. But after reading this I won't waste my time.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 1:28 pm to LongueCarabine
I went to Bass Pro in Bossier City yesterday for first since the election. It didn't have bare shelves where ammo would be.....the ammo shelves were stocked w/ other, non-ammo items such as plastic gun cases, plastic ammo cases, etc. NO rifle, handgun or rimfire ammo at all in the entire store. The reloading section had a total of about 10 boxes of bullets. Probably 20-30 boxes of various shotgun shells. Most of the reloading section was also stocked w/ non-reloading items. Academy in BC and it was even worse. One entire aisle empty while the other had about 10 boxes of shotgun shells. I'm okay because I've been buying 8# kegs of powder instead of 1# and I have gradually built up my inventory of primers and bullets. Regardless, I'm concerned for the future due to the new administration and the different direction the country is taking.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 2:42 pm to jlovel7
quote:
Which Walmart baw.
Cortana and Sullivan road had a decent amount the last times I went.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 3:47 pm to down time
quote:
but this time feels different than the previous panic buying.
Yep I honestly expect prices to stay high until atleast this time next year. Even with these crazy high prices people are still buying it as soon as it hits the shelves. Prices won’t come down until Academy has pallets of ammo sitting in the middle of the store for months and does not get attacked like a human during a zombie apocalypse.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 6:52 pm to CheEngineer
Biden is working his damndest to make sure this scenario never happens again.
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