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What war are we going into, and why is there no ammo anywhere?!?!

raisins said:
interestingly, 12 gauge buckshot has stayed sold out and even last spring was pretty sold out online....my reasoning is it is so common a chambering that everyone thought to get some 00 or 000 to turn what they had more "tactical"....actually pretty good reasoning...I wanted a few boxes and couldn't find anything other than brands I'd never heard of
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That may be the case. Another common scenario during shortages is that manufacturers stop making all but their most popular product lines. If they're running production lines 24-7 and are still years behind on orders, the last thing they're going to do is shut a line down and to make a run of some less popular stuff. Or they may only make one type of buckshot this year to keep hunters going but that's it. On the outside we just see something is sold out for a couple years. The reality may be that it's not that so many people are buying it, it's just not being made for awhile.

And the covid supply chain problems are real too. Try to buy a bicycle right now. Over the summer bike shops were empty, they couldn't get anything to sell. I ordered a new mountain bike frame in October and it's not scheduled for delivery until April this year and I'm assuming it going to actually be much later than that.
 
The solution to this issue is when things calm down, buy ammo by the thousand. I buy 9mm, .223 and .308 for my fun semi auto guns by the thousand. Not because I have some twisted romanticized view of a shtf scenario where i shoot my way out of every situation I find myself in, but because I like to shoot. When these ammo shortages happen, I save my pew pew money and shoot my bow more this time around. I don’t buy ammo at high prices from a -holes that camp out at Walmart to buy it all and sell , if everyone refused to buy ammo from price gouging smacks maybe they would stop with that nonsense... maybe.
 
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This is another reason to own a 5.56 rather than a .223
You can shoot .223 ammo out of a 5.56 gun but not vice versa.

And buy ammo with cash.
 
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