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Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« on: January 09, 2021, 11:48:42 AM »
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.
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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2021, 12:05:15 PM »
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.
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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2021, 12:29:07 PM »
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? 

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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2021, 12:33:05 PM »
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
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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2021, 12:37:04 PM »
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.

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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2021, 12:47:34 PM »
Not remotely so. I've got enough to last a lifetime if all I planned on using it for was hunting.

Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with too many facts.

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Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2021, 12:50:55 PM »
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.
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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2021, 12:53:21 PM »
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.
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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2021, 01:04:11 PM »
Not even a consideration.    :dunno:

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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2021, 01:07:10 PM »
I lost all my guns and ammo in a boating mishap
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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2021, 01:09:25 PM »
No hunting plan changes, I have made changes to my recreational shooting however.

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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2021, 01:14:19 PM »
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.   :chuckle:

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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2021, 01:36:03 PM »
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.

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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2021, 01:38:32 PM »
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.
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Re: Is the ammo shortage changing your hunting plans?
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2021, 02:54:14 PM »
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.

 


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