My daughter and I traveled through Canada last week. On July 19th I stopped at the Cabelas in Lethbridge to use the restroom. I got lost in the store(they are big stores with lots to distract a guy...) and ended up in the firearms section. I was shocked to see the shelves literally packed with ammunition. They had nearly everything in stock. Maybe one out of ten items was out of stock, but everything else was packed to the gills.

And I had been looking in SW Wyoming just a couple of days prior and they had almost nothing. Most places were out of stock on 95% of their ammo, and what they did have was odd ball stuff such as 7x64 and 378 Weatherby. I checked Walmart and they were completely bare each time I looked, until finally they had two boxes of Remington 30/06, but nothing else.

I suspect that there is no supply shortage, the problem is with the hoarders. But that is just my guess...

BTW, did you know that the commies in Canada won’t sell you ammo without a license??? Ask me how I know...

Canada has a small percentage of firearm owners compared to the US.

Just the "new owners" in the US most likely out number the Canadian owners.

Well because the same tweekers as last time are still hoarding everything they can get there hands on waiting for some imagined Armageddon.

I mean it isn't like the manufacturers aren't producing.

Cougarz and PDog,

I agree with both of you. I posted this to point out that it isn’t about a supply shortage due to lack of materials, or lack of manpower due to Covid, as has been discussed here recently.

It is being cause by an out of control demand here in the US.

Yep. A guy came in the store yesterday who is the sporting goods leader for a major big box sports store. He said their ammo is bought up every day by the same 10-15 old guys who line up at 3 in the morning with coffee and donuts. They then take the ammo to the local flea market or next gun show and sell it for triple what they paid. No other citizens get to buy anything. His company won't allow him to ration. On the other hand, the local gun store I work at limits purchases so more folks can have some ammo. This is nothing but artificial demand due to hoarding and opportunism.

Around Dallas it seems the stores are slowly restocking ammo supplies, the three Bass Pro and Cabela's stores I've gone into in the past couple of weeks all had quite a bit of ammo, including the popular calibers. None of it was bargain priced but they had lots of it. Shotgun shells were fairly plentiful and not way overpriced, so I bought a case each of 20 ga and 28 ga dove loads.
Also, they seem to be getting a bit more reloading components, pretty good variety of Hornady bullets and even had some Barnes bullets in .224, .308 and .257.

I was in Sportsman's the other day and an young employee was wheeling a partially filled shopping cart towards the ammo shelves. He stopped and I walked over to look at what he had. He nearly had a heart attack and told me not to touch any of it. I couldn't believe his stinking attitude and I told him so. In the end, he had nothing that I would have been interested in. What is wrong with people? You can't leave the store with more than 2 boxes of anything. And, the handgun ammo is all behind the customer service counter. You can look and then if they have anything that you want, you can get two boxes. What a shit show this whole thing is.

It usually is, + especially when all too often the counter help is clueless.

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Originally posted by K Evans:
Around Dallas it seems the stores are slowly restocking ammo supplies, the three Bass Pro and Cabela's stores I've gone into in the past couple of weeks all had quite a bit of ammo, including the popular calibers. None of it was bargain priced but they had lots of it. Shotgun shells were fairly plentiful and not way overpriced, so I bought a case each of 20 ga and 28 ga dove loads.
Also, they seem to be getting a bit more reloading components, pretty good variety of Hornady bullets and even had some Barnes bullets in .224, .308 and .257.

Karl,

I’m in need of some 28ga dove loads. Where did you find these?

Marcus, Cabela’s in Allen and the Grapevine Bass Pro both had them in stock. Just over $60.00 per case.

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Originally posted by K Evans:
Marcus, Cabela’s in Allen and the Grapevine Bass Pro both had them in stock. Just over $60.00 per case.

Thank you, sir. I will have to swing by one of those soon.