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Local retailer (Sporting Goods Mom&Pop) has 12 gauge RST and AA target loads for $12.00/box (plus tax)-- this is in small farm town MI-- how does this compare with prices in your neck of the woods. Some SC events are way low in attendance, due to ammo shortages/high prices, etc. When will the madness end?? RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Have RST’s ever been below $10.00?
$6.00 should never keep a gun away from a fun round of clays.
Out there doing it best I can.
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at 2 places I shoot, what shells are available are $7 and $9/box. No light loads (12 ga 7/8 oz )such as I was able to get last year. In both places they will only sell what you are going to shoot there.
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Local retailer (Sporting Goods Mom&Pop) has 12 gauge RST and AA target loads for $12.00/box (plus tax)-- this is in small farm town MI-- how does this compare with prices in your neck of the woods. Some SC events are way low in attendance, due to ammo shortages/high prices, etc. When will the madness end?? RWTF The madness will end when enough people quit panic buying & hoarding to let the manufacturers can catch up & restock the shelves!!
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I don't know...this "hoarding" explaination seems a little pat to me. I mean, 16 gauge 2 1/2" fiber wad shells? Who panic buys flats of those?
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Local retailer (Sporting Goods Mom&Pop) has 12 gauge RST and AA target loads for $12.00/box (plus tax)-- this is in small farm town MI-- how does this compare with prices in your neck of the woods. Some SC events are way low in attendance, due to ammo shortages/high prices, etc. When will the madness end?? RWTF I bought a case of Winchester AA #8 @1290 fps for $84.99 + tax last Wednesday at Cabela's. Since a small local store doesn't have their purchasing power, $12.00/box (plus tax) isn't outrageous, especially for RST. RST is currently charging $15 and up for box for 12 gauge and a lot of it is out of stock.
I have become addicted to English hammered shotguns to the detriment of my wallet.
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I don't know...this "hoarding" explaination seems a little pat to me. I mean, 16 gauge 2 1/2" fiber wad shells? Who panic buys flats of those? Other 16 gauge shooters :P More seriously 16 gauge 2 1/2" fiber wad shells are probably a limited run product and currently ammo makers are too busy trying to catch up on standard loadings to do a limited production run. I shoot some odd handgun calibers and I don't expect to by able to buy more until Fiocchi and Prvi Partizan are able to catch up with demand
I have become addicted to English hammered shotguns to the detriment of my wallet.
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Local gun club has gone to progressive pricing to stop hoarding. First case might be $80.00 a flat, then the second flat cost 120.00 and third flat cost 160.00. all sales tracked on their computer. All the old guys were buying ammo and taking it home instead of shooting it at the club. A few were bragging about flipping in on GunBrokers. Problem was club had no targets bring shot because these regulars were buying up all the ammo but not shooting any of it. End of hoarding mostly. Non members can only buy what they will shoot that day.
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I am fortunate enuf to own (some inherited) 7 fine pre-1950 Model 12's-- including a 28 gauge skeet gun (1939)- NONE of them are in 16 gauge, and I doubt if I would ever buy one in that "bastard" gauge, as the late Paul A. Curtis sometimes called- neither fish nor fowl, I'll either shoot a 20 or a 12- std. or 3" Magnum. BUT- unlike the late Gene Hill, who owned a 16 gauge Greener, I don't hunt grouse or woodcock, nor quail nor doves- when I can't carry a field grade M12 12 gauge after pheasants in Nov.-- I'll stay home and learn chess or backgammon I guess. Oh, the Mom and Pop store has a limit of 3 boxes/shells purchased per day, honor system. RWTF.
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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I picked up a mild hoard of 16s yesterday. I fellow I used to work with finally aged-out and sold a number of his guns, including his Fox 16 about a year ago. He recently brought his accumulated collection of 16-gauge shells in to MW Reynolds to have them moved along. Everything from RST non-tox to a flat of William Larkin Moore marked 2 1/2 inch stuff, fiber wads and all. Shells at the local clubs are ranging in price from $8.75 to $18 a box (12 gauge only). Eventually, things will catch up again but I suspect 16s wont be commonly available for a while, thus my purchase of this lot. 12s and 20 will come back online first, well before the rest of the gauges return, but I suspect that $5 a box shells will be a thing of the past.
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