Comments on Ammunition Availability

By Ammoland

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- Additional comments on Ammunition, from friends and colleagues around the Country:

“In our Long-Range Rifle Courses, we are now seeing many rifles chambered for 30-06. There seems to be plenty of that caliber available, relatively cheap!

Many 1903 Springfield bolt-guns, as well as Garands. Deadly, and amazingly destructive well past 500m. Screw with someone equipped with one of these at your peril! Adaptation at its finest!”

“Paradoxically, two years ago many of our students migrated from 5.56×45 (223) rifles to similar rifles chambered for 22LR, since 223 was hard to find, and expensive. Today, that has precisely reversed! 22RF is now hard to find, and expensive, while 223 is plentiful and relatively cheap!

Both consumers and manufactures have found a way around current supply-side economics, and have successively adjusted habits in order to capitalize on what is available.

Americans are endlessly adaptive, and we need to be!”

“Your last Quip tracks with what I’ve been seeing locally. Scads of 5.56/9/40/45 currently available.

30/Soviet (7.62×39) is on the shelves but mainly in high-performance, and expensive, hunting configurations. Cheap, made-by-political-prisoners, military stuff from Eastern Europe and China has all but dried-up.

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Source:: AmmoLand