Ammo pricing and availability

[running-man]

I get regular email blasts from various retailers.  SGAmmo surprised me the other day indicating that sales volume was up 7x after the election vs. what they had seen in October.  He mentioned that it's even surpassing what they saw during the March 2000 Covid19 induced panic!

Cruising their website, indeed, their lowest priced .22lr offering is "2000 Round Case – 22 Long Rifle Winchester 40 grain Hyper Velocity 1440 FPS Hollow Point Ammo" (which is not necessarily top of the line stuff) for $239 which comes out to just a hair under 12 cents per round.

12 cent per round for .22lr?! 

I bought some last June for 6.5 cents per round and remember buying several cases last year at 5.5 cents per round.  .223 looks to be running abour 50 cents per round, .308 at 80 cpr.  9mm is the only thing I see where I can even recognize the price where it's generally been at 29 cpr for Brazilian Magtech.  Is this where we are ammo wise now??  I hadn't bought anything since June, but man that's quite an eye opener for me.  Blink and you'll miss it I guess!

[Bacarnal]

I saw the same stuff from SG.  I bought some .308 last week from them and with tax and shipping ins. it ended up at .85 a round.  Decided to get .223 55gr Wednesday and it's at .52 all said and done.  Still got a ton of 7.62x25, x39 and x54 that should be good for trading along with a bunch of other calibers.  We'll see what happens