Just curious. Ammo shortage in Canada?

Can-down said:
Components or ammo? or both?
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Ammo.

He has been able to get me projectiles and just ordered for a different cal. and seems he can get those. Also a set of dies that I haven't been able to get from my regular supplier.

Where I shop .22 was stacked on pallets, now not much left and none in the pipeline from what I understand.
 
RedApe said:
It's dried up because the markets are playing the conservatives fears that Obama will take your arms away. He has looser laws than both Bush men.(by not renewing expiring gun laws) We have no issues because for the most part we don't put up with idiots saying one guy will take your guns away
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Really, now? We have no issues? Where have you been? However, you are right, we don't have one guy threatening to take our guns away; we have lots, and multiple political parties to boot.
 
hometownhero said:
I am scared to shoot because I am not to sure when I will find some more.
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Not throwing daggers, or trying to pick a fight, but maybe this is the difference between hoarding and stockpiling. If you're buying stuff up and then not using it, I'd sooner call that hoarding than I would buying stuff up and pulling the trigger a bunch.

Again, not saying that as an insult - I don't care if you stockpile or hoard. Its your money, I'm not your financial planner.
 
enfield303t said:
Well someone I think is really up with what is happening told me two weeks ago no more .308-300 WinMag-.223 or .338 Lapua will be shipped to Canada from US suppliers for the balance of 2014.

Time will tell just how correct he is. Had lots, just bought more.
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European manufacturers will fill the gaps (S&B, PRVI, Norma etc), if it even happens. Which i doubt.
 
Newfoundlandrover said:
Canada is feeling it, but its spotty. Two stores may not have any 9mm or 22lr, while the third store has five crates of everything. We are nowhere near as short on ammo as the USA, but then again, there is much greater demand there.
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Very true....it does seem to be hit and miss , but no real shortage if you are not after brand specific......
 
...up here things have been up and down for a very long time...really the start of the iraqi war...we have an OSB plant in the area...went from $6/sheet to over $20 in a couple of months...reloading components have been flopping like a dying fish ever since...now it's bullets...primers for the longest time were not available period...when metal prices started to spike in 2006 i scoured every tire shop down every dirt road i knew and came up with 1/2 ton of wheel weights for free...hoarding?...certainly not intentionally, but first of all maintaining my ability to shoot (and yes ammo can come under regulation perhaps easier than guns can...ask about efforts to do this in the US)...and second not wanting to pay money into other's pockets to shoot...no more lead wheel weights being used around here...no lead out of the plumbing shops (old flashing, etc.)...i have enough of everything to last a very long time, especially using only a few grains of Bullseye or Unique...

...is there something wrong with this?
 
blasted_saber said:
European manufacturers will fill the gaps (S&B, PRVI, Norma etc), if it even happens. Which i doubt.
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You might be right however if what you think is plausible why haven't S&B sent over a boat load of .223 already? There is a market right now for this so maybe they can't supply all we want?

Good business would see the opportunity and since S&B have been manufacturing cartridges since the 1870's I think they really know what they are doing?

The person that told me about the US not shipping has a excellent reputation and knows far more about what is happening behind the scenes than I do.

As I said before, have lots, bought more.
 
Went to cabelas the ther day for some plinking .223 (had gift cards to spend) couldn't find the usual 200 round box of UMC ($99.99) or the American eagle 20 round box ($12.99). Also couldn't fin ANY cci .22 at all only a few boxes of random brands laying around

Gonna pick up a case of norinco 5.56 too fill my plinking needs as well as start reloading for .223 for some more accurate rounds
 
I'm finding it to be a little spotty lately, cheap bulk 22 and cheap flats of 12 ga 1-1/8 oz are getting tough to buy locally (Timmins ont). I went to bass pro in Vaughn last week looking for loading components and the bullet selection was looking pretty poor.
I went over al flaretys in toronto looking for cheap flats of 12 ga. No go. a couple weeks before that I walked in to le Barron's at Ottawa no cheap flats of 12 ga there either. I managed to pick up some 12s in orrilia they were what I would consider middle of the road pricing, considering everything I've seen around the province I was not going to complain. I have not noticed any shortages in big game centerfire cartridges but I have not really tried to buy much other than 270 win I decided to buy 500 rounds of plain jane 130 grain winchester pp only because I shoot that one regularly for fun. Last spring at this time I had 6 flats of 12 ga in the gun room for shooting clays this spring I'm running in conservation mode. I won't be breaking much clay this summer.
 
Can't you see what the governments are doing? They're making a few token silly gun laws, to keep us off track to what their real agenda is.
Letting us keep the useless guns, but what good are they without bullets. Soon it will be all gone!
Buy now, and buy fast. Stock pile it and hoard it. Quick, before it's too late. Soon there will be none.
And reloaders aren't safe, either. Whatcha gonna do, with no primers.
Tricky devils. And don't say you weren't forewarned. Woe is me!
 
nw mb said:
...up here things have been up and down for a very long time...really the start of the iraqi war...we have an OSB plant in the area...went from $6/sheet to over $20 in a couple of months...reloading components have been flopping like a dying fish ever since...now it's bullets...primers for the longest time were not available period...when metal prices started to spike in 2006 i scoured every tire shop down every dirt road i knew and came up with 1/2 ton of wheel weights for free...hoarding?...certainly not intentionally, but first of all maintaining my ability to shoot (and yes ammo can come under regulation perhaps easier than guns can...ask about efforts to do this in the US)...and second not wanting to pay money into other's pockets to shoot...no more lead wheel weights being used around here...no lead out of the plumbing shops (old flashing, etc.)...i have enough of everything to last a very long time, especially using only a few grains of Bullseye or Unique...

...is there something wrong with this?
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Not even a little bit wrong with your thinking,some might call it good old common sense.
 
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there has not been any european 7.62 x 39 non-corrosive here for a very long time...maybe 4 years? glad i bought them when i did and at the price i did...i saw 100 at a show this winter and bought them all...mostly want brass for low pressure cast loads...and i ain't gonna pay approaching $30 for 'premium' loads from factory hornady/win./etc....kinda defeats the purpose of my SKSs in the first place...

...and no i don't see what governments are doing...don't care what they're doing...just care about my own shooting...it's really that simple...
 
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My local CT now has a different brick of Winchester ammo. Its black and target oriented, around $35 for the brick. Last time I was in on Monday they had bricks of 555. My local shop sold out in the past few days.
 
blasted_saber said:
Update!

My local CT now has a different brick of Winchester ammo. Its black and target oriented, around $35 for the brick. Last time I was in on Monday they had bricks of 555. My local shop sold out in the past few days.
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blasted_saber said:
No problems in my little corner of Canada. I can buy ammo at 10 places within a 30 min drive of my house.
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I guess everyone from the GTA came up north and bought it all when you told them where to go :). You shouldn’t have given away your ammo spots on Wednesday :p, boy that was fast.
 
jonny45 said:
Last spring at this time I had 6 flats of 12 ga in the gun room for shooting clays this spring I'm running in conservation mode. I won't be breaking much clay this summer.
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Flaherty's and GTA Sail locations were stacked high with 12ga target loads as recently as last week. In general stocks in the area have been a lot healthier looking than they were last year.
 
I wouldn't say it's hard to find ammo around northern Alberta but the price tag leaves something to be desired...

12ga trap loads have went up around $10-$15 per flat from last year

.22 Federal 525 is up about $5 per box

.223 ammo is abundant except for the $11 a box AE 62gr (grrrrr)

Projectiles for reloading haven't made it to the retail stores yet but may is often a busy month for shelf filling, I have seen 55gr Hornady .223 projectiles listed around $150 per thousand and 62gr Speer .223 projectiles for $250 per thousand... Have recently purchased 250pc Hornady 168gr .308 amax projectiles for $100 a box and an 8lb jug of IMR4895 for $260+ tax so approx $32lb (for a product made in Canada and repackaged in the states then shipped back to canada I might add).
 
BadRonald said:
Flaherty's and GTA Sail locations were stacked high with 12ga target loads as recently as last week. In general stocks in the area have been a lot healthier looking than they were last year.
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I've never been to a sail store before. I'll be back in the gta this week coming. I'll have to go check out there pricing.
 
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