That's true and there are other on-line sources...

by Hobie , Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Friday, September 22, 2023, 06:53 (427 days ago) @ JimT

... which come with shipping and hazmat charges. OK if you must but limiting compared to pre-pandemic prices. Also, the brick and mortar, mom and pop (if you prefer) gun shops are finding it generally difficult to get good reliable supplies of primers. Lack of primers has cut into powder and bullet sales but many specific bullets are hard to find. Oddly, since it seems fewer people are able to reload, brass can be hard to find. All this is particularly true for what were "seasonal" production ammunition items. While one can, again on-line, find .410 3" ammo it is hard for many gun shops to get any supply much less an adequate one. Inflation/price increases has had an impact on firearms related sales generally speaking. This summer's normal seasonal slowdown was the flattest sales since 2009.

I think hunting around here has suffered as city folks have moved in following the pandemic with their city ways and prejudices buying up acres and taking them out of the equation at the same time the USFS cuts (yes pun intended) timber sales reducing habitat and game populations, particularly deer, on our local national forests. I am now more likely to see deer in my backyard 4 blocks from downtown that in the national forest.

Sorry for the rant, lots of changes here which I can't see my way to thinking well of.

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Sincerely,

Hobie