gun show at the state fair.

[jesse.james]

Headed to the gun show. Was there at 8:30 am. Doors opened at 9. Easily 1500 people already there. Got in and looked for .223 ammo. Price gouging galore. Finally sucked it up and pulled the trigger on a couple hundred rounds of american eagle at 74 cents around. Best price I could find was tula at 59 cents but had to buy in bricks of 1000. It seemed like everything was marked up. Picked up a box of Remington. 300 savage for my pops and that was even 35 bucks. People leaving there with empty wallets that's for sure.

[Doc]

Lol ...... Free enterprise at it's finest. Hunters screwing hunters. Of course I never really expected that all this hoarding and greedy behavior would result in unchanged prices. I'll bet they go up even farther before all this nonsense is done .......... that is if it ever is "done". We are successfully doing the work of the anti's for them.

[Early]

Stopped at Del Sports in Margaretville yesterday:  Found far less ammo than normal...but no price increases...no gouging...at least on the stuff I wanted.

[ants]

People are screwing each other. I heard that people, at the show, were selling bricks of .22 for $100. Stop being selfish pricks!!!

[WNYBuckHunter]

Stop paying the prices and the sellers will be forced to reduce if they want to sell.

[Doc]

I have  a bit of an edge on all of this, because I placed an order with Midway just before the Cuomo surprise. So I have a bit of a supply of reloading components. However, now I am in a position of rationing my target practice because I really don't know when or if this craziness will ever end. I believe that we have started up a little cottage industry of glomming onto every last piece of ammo, and then gouging our fellow gun owners by selling to them at inflated prices. It may never end as long as people continue to make money off of the rest of us. On the other hand, since the supplies seemed to be locked up by a greedy few, not buying the over-priced stock may actually cease to become an option, if you want to continue shooting. Also, as these guys continue to artificially jack the price, the demand vs. supply situation will remain such that manufacturers may also begin adopting the inflated prices. I can see where all that might lead. higher manufacturer prices leading to higher "hoarder" prices which leads to higher manufacturer prices and up the scale it all spirals until prices get so ridiculous that no one will be able to buy. Yes, at that time demand will crash and eventually prices will come back down .... a bit. But how many people will sell their guns because of no ammo? Like I said before ... it's just another means of gun control only this time it is our own that are making it all happen.

[HuntOrBeHunted]

People are screwing each other. I heard that people, at the show, were selling bricks of .22 for $100. Stop being selfish pricks!!!

 

 

I heard the same thing today from a guy that went there. 100  bucks for a brick of 22. ammo, I would have laughed and most likely left right after hearing that.

[Doc]

I'll tell you what. If I encountered that kind of gouging going on by these filthy hoarders, I would have been right in their face telling them what I thought of someone would do that sort of thing to fellow gun owners. Perhaps if these guys spent their entire day with irrate gunowners ripping them a "new one" they might end this nonsense and allow the supply to return to normal. But as long as people continue to play into their hands and buy this stuff at their inflated prices, the hoarding and gouging will likely continue indefinitely.

 

We've got to get a little less tolerant of this situation people and start fighting back where we can and in any way that we can. A lot of people think that all we have to do is sit back and wait like a lump and all will get better. I don't think that is going to cut it. I believe that the ammo retailing system is going through some changes and perhaps permanent changes where this kind of gouging is in danger of becoming the norm.

[verminater71]

I was there, and it was bad, 1st time I left with empty hands

 

what sucks, it's not just ammo, people are hoarding guns also, more new guns there than I have ever seen

 

the used gun market is just as bad as the ammo market, I seen used guns selling for more than they are new, go figure

 

the only ammo, that was still a good price, was 17hmr,