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Why would anyone buy AA or any premium shell unless they are shooting for a living. Not many of us are shooting a game where a missed target is a financial disaster. Use the cheap stuff if you can find it.

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Originally Posted by eightbore
Why would anyone buy AA or any premium shell unless they are shooting for a living. Not many of us are shooting a game where a missed target is a financial disaster. Use the cheap stuff if you can find it.

Finding any shotgun ammo, much less the inexpensive stuff, is still a problem right now. I shoot skeet every Sunday so I go through a case every 4-5 weeks. I've been lucky in that I've been able to buy a case at Cabelas every once in a while. enough that I have enough on hand for maybe 3 months. It is very much a seller's market right now and I have to give credit to Cabelas/Bass Pro/Sportsmen's Warehouse for not jacking up the prices and restricting people on how much they can buy. There have been credible rumors of local gun stores sending their employees to Cabelas, have them buy as much ammo as possible and then turnaround and sell it at a much higher price.


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$12/box for RST's is an excellent price. Two years ago if I ordered a flat of RST's the price was $130.

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Originally Posted by dogon
Originally Posted by Run With The Fox
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!!
You forgot to include the needed supply chain to manufacture and deliver needed materials for production.

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Just saw a box of older Federal 3-inch .410-bore mixed shells show up on GI for $125. One full with the correct shells just sold in the Ward's Auction for $27!! Ward's gave the range as $10 to $30.

https://www.wardscollectibles.com/viewitem.php?item=10443

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I have an unopened case 20 boxes of 410 2 1/2 inch # 9 paper Western skeet loads. Bobby

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.410 loads have been selling on GunBroker for $30.00 a box for a while. Just not to me. Have not checked lately so maybe stupid prices are coming down into the outrageous range. It will be a couple years until stuff comes back a bit to normal.

Bobby, as a youth I shot a lot of 28 gauge Winchester paper shells. I loved those paper shells. First case came in a wooden crate but the others all came in cardboard boxes. Use to buy them at WesternAuto store in town. Funny thing is that they almost always just happened to have a case I wanted on hand when I had earned enough money to buy them. Took me years to figure out my father would go into the store and order them shortly before I had enough money to buy them. He took good care of my shooting needs like everything else he did. Quietly and without fanfare.

Back in those days I most likely had the only 28 gauge in our county. Many Skeet shooters shot 3” .410 for the 28 gauge event because they did not have a true 28. Small bore events were 50 target events at small clubs. Nearest Skeet club was 30 miles away and I never knew about it until I was in college. I would have loved to shoot Skeet as a kid when I had sharp eyes, reflexes like a cat and a Winchester Model 12 in 28 Skeet. Today I still have the gun but eyes are proper age, reflexes are so-so and now I shoot with my friend arthritis every round.

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I’ve picked up random four box packs (Estates, Winchester promos/AA’s etc) at Wally World to satisfy most of my practice requirements. The NSCA has relaxed its requirements on using reloads in some tourneys this year and I’ve shot a ton of those.Powder and shot are available (at elevated prices) in my area but primers are still scarce. I was fortunate to have a 10k surplus at the start of the year but am down to 4K now. I’m shooting the US Open next week and was glad to hear they will have 3 containers of Federal, Winchester and Fiocchi shells on site. With over a thousand shooters attending they’ll need them! I don’t anticipate any bargains.


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