Conserve your powder

[Merc]

I visited my local Cabelas store In Wheeling, WV today to buy a jug of powder and found all the gun powder shelves were bare. I questioned one of the Cabelas crew members who told me of a situation that’s been ongoing for several months. They can’t get a lot of common loaded ammo so many shooters have turned to hand loading. Powder and ammo have been back ordered and those that are available are snapped as soon as it its placed on the shelves. Has anyone else had a similar experience? I kinda wondered what affect the BLM riots would have have on powder and ammo availability.

[Roadkingtrax]

Powder and Primers have been gone since March, long before any protests.

[RED]

It was the BLM crowd that emptied the shelves. There were 200 of them at the little ól Stone mountain protest.

[Roadkingtrax]

It was the BLM crowd that emptied the shelves. There were 200 of them at the little ól Stone mountain protest.

BLM are prolific reloaders now? LOL

[togor]

I am yet to get caught short going into any panic.

[m1ashooter]

Small pistol and rifle primers are hard to find. No problems with large rifle or large magnum pistol. You can find them online but you have to pay a hazmat fee which raises the cost. Powder is hit or miss.

[lyman]

reloading components started leaving the shelves in Feb or March when the first wave of panic started,

folks quickly realized that if the can't buy the ammo, they could reload it,


been a very short supply for retailers in this area since then,


bullets and brass are still good,, for now, (some common stuff is short,, )


best bet honestly is to go online, and buy in bulk, and split up the cost with some like minded reloaders,


Merc,

not sure how close you are to this guy

http://www.tntreloading.com/

in the pre-covid days he traveled to a lot of shows on the east coast,

he may still have some stock,

[bdm]

I knew this was going to happen many many years ago i am well stocked with everything

[Merc]

Merc,

not sure how close you are to this guy

http://www.tntreloading.com/

in the pre-covid days he traveled to a lot of shows on the east coast,

he may still have some stock,

He’s about 300 miles away at the eastern end of the state.

I asked a fellow shooter where he buys his reloading supplies and he knows at least two other sources of powder that are local gunsmiths. I probably won’t pursue it since I still have a few hundred rounds of reloaded ammo so I’m OK.

The virus has disrupted much of the supply chain at big stores like Cabelas that probably sell 80% Chinese/Asian made stuff. Fishing, boating, clothing, shoes, boots, etc. are almost all foreign made. Some shooting equipment, a few guns and some of their gun safes are made in the US. Being a convert to the anti-Chinese movement that’s growing in this country, I go into stores with the idea that I’m not going to buy anything made in China. When you start reading labels is when you realize how difficult that’s going to be. We simply don’t make anything here.

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I knew this was going to happen many many years ago i am well stocked with everything

Good for you. This will teach us all a lesson.

[Former Cav]

Took me 3 months to get an order through for 230 grain 45 caliber slugs to reload.
Precision Delta finally got them into production and put me on their list of sorts.
I picked up 2000, that will last me roughly a year. I practice a lot. I have over 23K rounds through my Kimber Polymer Target. Had it "refreshed" once by a pro. Awesome 1911.