{"id":59237,"date":"2020-09-05T20:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T01:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=59237"},"modified":"2020-09-06T00:24:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T05:24:32","slug":"59237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=59237","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Not really ‘news’ to anyone who’s been recently been to a gun store.
\nAnd the prices of what is<\/em> available! Wheew-ee.
\nReloading supplies still appear widely available…for now.<\/p>\n

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COVID hoarding hits ammunition supplies; ammo shortage continues to get worse<\/a><\/p>\n

(KELO<\/a>) \u2014 It\u2019s an issue hunters and gun enthusiasts have run into many times before, but this year, an ammo shortage just continues to get worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe try to sell ammo, but that\u2019s been a challenge in 2020. It\u2019s very, very hard to find ammo,\u201d said South Dakota\u00a0Military Heritage Alliance Executive Director Brian Phelps.<\/p>\n

The gun range at the Alliance is now limiting ammo purchases when people come to use the range.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll limit them to one box of ammunition vs. the normal 300 to 500 rounds,\u201d Phelps said.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because replacing some of those rounds is nearly impossible right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur guys will sit online and work with our manufacturers, and as soon as they see ammo available, they\u2019re hitting buy. It goes that quick once it\u2019s available,\u201d Phelps said.<\/p>\n

Right now, there\u2019s no end in sight to this tight market.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been talking with major manufacturers, for example, Magtech,\u00a0which is one of the big ammo producers in the country. They\u2019re telling us that they are on backorder throughout the rest of the year, throughout the rest of 2020,\u201d Phelps said.<\/p>\n

While they\u2019ve dealt with ammo shortages plenty of times before, usually during election years, this year\u2019s shortage is different.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more of the COVID, the social unrest and the high demand, people hoarding and stocking up similar to the toilet paper scenario with COVID, people just wanting to make sure they have enough,\u201d Phelps said.<\/p>\n

Usually, that only applies to personal protection ammo, but right now, even hunting ammunition could be impacted.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually shotgun shells are around, they\u2019re plentiful, but we had another manufacturer telling us it\u2019s the parts to make the ammunition \u2026 the primers are on a one-year backorder,\u201d Phelps said.<\/p>\n

South Dakota Game Fish and Parks says they\u2019re not too worried about the ammo shortage impacting this year\u2019s hunting season because most hunters are already well-stocked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m an avid hunter as well,\u201d Phelps said.\u00a0\u201cIf I\u2019m like most people, I have a pretty good supply of ammunition already at my house to get me through the season,\u201d<\/p>\n

If you find ammo in stock at a retailer, be prepared for the higher price tag.\u00a0 Phelps says a few years ago, 1,000 rounds of 9 mm ammo was about $200. Now, it costs more than $700.<\/p>\n

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Not really ‘news’ to anyone who’s been recently been to a gun store. And the prices of what is available! Wheew-ee. Reloading supplies still appear widely available…for now. COVID hoarding hits ammunition supplies; ammo shortage continues to get worse (KELO) \u2014 It\u2019s an issue hunters and gun enthusiasts have run into many times before, but … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-schtuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59245,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59237\/revisions\/59245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}