Maybe prices are starting to come back down. I was at the range today and a guy was there shooting a new Bushmaster AR. He just bought it at the Parkersburg WV Dunhams store for $750.00. Came with a red dot scope and 20 round magazine. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me??? Said they sold all they had in a short while.
Jim
I think he was filling you full of #%$@ especially with a scope on it. I guess the gun could have been used and the scope coulda been one of those $6.00 jobbers.
That would be a far better price than I have seen anywhere - at least in recent times.
As a side note, I went to the Maumee Valley gun show yesterday and saw one box of .22 ammo. It was a box (100) of CCI Shorts and the guy had $20 on the box. I said something about it and he said he had three boxes that morning and had sold two. I also went to visit the BassPro in Toledo and they had some shotgun shells, but NO other ammunition. Bullets for .17 and .338 but none for anything that I shoot. No brass or primers, and only about 5 cans of powder that also was nothing that I had ever used.
Jerry
I was in a pawn shop this morning and watched them sell their last box of .22 LR ammo. It was a 550 round bulk box of Federal hollow points and it went for $59 plus tax. Seems like it wasn't too long ago that it would have been way less than twenty bucks.
Pat
Quote from: coyote101 on March 11, 2013, 02:30:57 PM
I was in a pawn shop this morning and watched them sell their last box of .22 LR ammo. It was a 550 round bulk box of Federal hollow points and it went for $59 plus tax. Seems like it wasn't too long ago that it would have been way less than twenty bucks.
Pat
They'd probably loan money on ammo now at a pawn shop. :eyebrownod:
I know of a couple people that have bought the sporter models around the $750 mark. They can be bought from the big box stores at that price when supply allows.
Ammo prices will take forever to come back down. I liked the days of cheap .223 at $5 a box.
I went to the range Sat. and had two guys picking up my brass while I was downrange putting up a new target. Looked like two chickens scratching for brass.
Well as long as were on it...I stopped at Cabelas here this weekend and they had brass for 40 cal, 44 and 45. and live ammo for the same. Everything else was gone other then a few sporadic boxes of shotgun shells.
Also heard through the grapevine that a Walmart up here in Tomah, (WI) had tins of 223 ammo for 154.00 each. 500rnds to a tin. There was 20 left at noon on Sunday.
No AR's, semi-auto pistols, nor even bolt action rifles in my town. Gun and Pawn has been wiped out. No ammo either.
I don't know how my local Mom&Pop is going to weather the storm as their bread and butter was firearms and ammunition. Shelves are bare and no resupply forth coming. :sad:
I did manage to find 10 boxes of CCI Velocitor .22lr for just under 80 bucks out the door last Thursday a few towns over. :biggrin:
I've not seen brass .223 in stock for some time. Even the steel case stuff is hard to come by, and when you do its on the expensive side.