Fun story, every six months or so my buddy and I go on a statewide mad dash scavenger hunt stopping at every ma and pa store and gun shop we can. We managed 17 stores yesterday and together we scored 7 lbs 4064, 4 lbs of CFE, 500 .22 Nosler varmageddons, 400 .308 eldms, some 300 Ultramag, several boxes of .30 accubonds in different weights, several sets of dies that we haven’t been able to find online, and a bunch of other random stuff. I have a pistol and rifle range at my house and shoot a lot, usually every weekend, so this was helpful. I was very encouraged by what we found on the shelves. We found SP, LP, and LR primers which we didn’t need, all kinds of bullets that have been hard to find for a while, found tons of different powders, tons of Norma and Nosler brass for calibers I don’t need but have heard are scarce (30 Nosler, 28 Nosler, 300 prc). We found more stuff on the shelves than we have in a couple years. Things I didn’t find but was hoping to was H1000, H4831sc, Retumbo, a Glock 20 slide and a .300 blackout upper in 10”.
Some places were gouging, all primers we $100-$140 a thousand. Some places had outstanding prices compared to what I find online and they earned our future business. Overall I would definitely say supply is improving.
