Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?

[253shotgunner]

It is plain fact that factory ammo and reloading supplies for hunting is gone. How are you adjusting to all these shortages?
I wanted to add a 270 caliber rifle but that just isn't going to happen this year.

[ghosthunter]

I saw this coming over a year ago. I was fighting off buying any more guns, so I was satisfying my need by buying ammo.
I had just bought what I said would be my last rifle. A Savage Storm in 7 mm 08.
So I stocked up on several boxes of that caliber and than started buying for all my other calibers.

When you spend $200.00 a month on ammo and only shoot to sight in and hunt, it builds up.

No change in my hunting plans.

[dilleytech]

My plans won’t change. If factory ammo remains at short supply I will just shoot my hunting rifle a little less in the off season. I encourage anyone who hunts rifle to have more then a couple boxes of bullets on the shelf..

I haven’t bought rifle ammo since the summer but you can still get pistol ammo relatively easily. Is rifle that much worse? 

[253shotgunner]

I haven’t bought rifle ammo since the summer but you can still get pistol ammo relatively easily. Is rifle that much worse?

I regularly visit Cabelas, BPS, Sportco and Sportsmans Warehouse and popular rifle calibers are pretty much gone and reloading supplies too. -253shotgunner

[Stein]

No, I haven't shot a big game animal with anything other than reloads and I have a sighted rifle and realistically 200 rounds would last a long time. I really only need to shoot 3 to verify zero and 0-3 for each animal, so on a good year for me that would be a max of 10 rounds/season so I'm good for 20+ years.  The way tag draws are headed, I'm probably good for 30 years.

I have factory ammo I can shoot for fun if I need to.

Hunting really takes next to nothing in terms of quantity.  Start shooting some leagues or the shooting sports like IDPA or the high volume rifle stuff and yeah, that's going to be difficult.

[Jonathan_S]

Not remotely so. I've got enough to last a lifetime if all I planned on using it for was hunting.

[jackelope]

I could see it affecting target shooting or other recreational shooting but I can’t see how it would change hunting plans.
I could have 15 rounds of ammo and have enough to verify my zero and be comfortable deer hunting with. I don’t shoot very much but it doesn’t seem to affect my ability to shoot an animal. Really time in the woods is my biggest limiting factor. Probably goes for the majority of folks I’d imagine.

[wadu1]

If my dads health stabilizes and I can get out. I have about 100 rounds loaded for each of my hunting rifles. And enough components for 150 each caliber. Only short 140gr for 6.5. So I’m good for a number of years.

[buckfvr]

Not even a consideration.   

[MADMAX]

I lost all my guns and ammo in a boating mishap

[fowl smacker]

No hunting plan changes, I have made changes to my recreational shooting however.

[Magnum_Willys]

Have 3 jugs of RL 33 and seven hundred 300 gr bullets.   Sometimes those big ones are tough to stop but I’ve got at least enough for next two or three years.   

[highside74]

I lost all my guns and ammo in a boating mishap

I'm sorry to here that, very unfortunate. It is also unfortunate that you won't ever be replacing them.

[Igor]

Being a hoarder by nature (inherited that from my Dad) I have enough reloading components to keep us in hunting ammo for the next 30-35 years, at least.

[Naches Sportsman]

Not changing plans at all. If you don't have 5+ years worth of hunting caliber ammo on hand, you're not very bright. I shoot 10 rounds from my hunting rifles a year max.

Plinker guns, no excuse to have a lot of ammo on hand. Between my dad and I, we have 10000 rounds of .204, 9000 rounds of .223 and a storage totem full of 22 lr.

Cheaper to shoot small calibers so the big game calibers stay in the safes most of the year.

I've found .22lr at bimart about half of the time I've been in there since the election at 6-8 cents a round. Plinking ammo is around.

[Bushcraft]

Zero.

I might try flinging pointy sticks again this year. 

[huntnphool]

 Should read “is the hunting shortage changing your ammo plans.”

[Cougartail]

 

Should read “is the hunting shortage changing your ammo plans.”

 

[wadu1]

No hunting plan changes, I have made changes to my recreational shooting however.

I'm covered for hunting ammo. But I shoot registered shotgun at about 4K a year and steel challenge about 1k rounds a year. I've been able to load 12, 20, 28 and .410 with the powders I've been purchasing locally the only shortage has been 209 primers. But ever the primers I've been able to keep up loading. I think the price of lead shot at Sportsman's will go up when Pro Bass finishes the buyout. 

[huntandjeep]

No , I bought cheap and stacked deep .

[actionshooter]

Its not affecting my hunting in the slightest.... but it really has hurt my competition shooting, turning away from a lot of 3 gun and giving NRL22 a run instead.

[Special T]

No , I bought cheap and stacked deep .

I think it sad so many people didnt lear thier lesson from 4 years ago...

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[dmoua]

Nope. Season can’t come soon enough.

[hunter399]

No plans on changes in my family hunting.I have enough reloading supply to last many years,if used for hunting only.
But my son and I like to target practice through out the year.

[Sutherland]

 

[Shaqdiesel]

Could not find any waterfowl shells for a 12 gauge at all recently, so went online and bought a case for 130$ shipped to my door...

[BigGoonTuna]

This shortage hasn’t hurt my hunting at all. I will say, the last several panics we’ve had, stores never seemed to run out of shotshells, or the expensive hunting ammo. .22, military calibers and common pistol ammo, good luck.

This time it’s been flat out everything, but I have seen .22 available oddly enough.

I shoot mostly odd stuff with the exception of my 30-06 and 270. Even then I handload almost everything I shoot; partly out of necessity(how often can you find .250 savage or .358 win at the store?), but mostly because I enjoy it. I’m pretty well stocked to keep me going through this shortage, and I’ll buy more components when it’s over to stay stocked.

[M_ray]

No, won’t change my hunting plans a bit.  I’ve lived through a few shortages now and learned to stock up. I have plenty of powder & projectiles to last my lifetime

[Mossy]

Not unless I bought a new caliber that I can’t reload for which was my plan until recently.