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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2424273" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>Coyote!!! You are to be commended for this type of operation. Share the wealth so to speak. The problem is that you are the guy in a WHITE HAT when there are more bandits than you can shake a big stick wearing BLACK HATS. Cabelas never marked up whatever we had available. Prices were manufacturers suggested retail ever since this started and have remained that way. While I no longer work there, Cabelas and Bass Pro also wore White Hats. That point was driven home repeatedly. There was one (of many) online companies that was selling 9mm target ammo for $59.95 a box of 50. That <strong>same exact ammo</strong> on our shelves when we had it was $12.99. The same goes for powder and primers, ours at MSRP the others at price gouging prices. The price gouging still remains in most of the Online World. As for the ammo, primers and powders that were being bought in never before number I was seeing them showing up in online auctions or sometimes notes on the bulletin boards at some gun clubs for sale at ridiculously high prices. Those who were doing this were no more than legal thieves. As for the manufacturers. I can pretty much testify to this. When Covid hit everyone panicked shutting down whole industries either individually or because their suppliers had shut down so there were no raw products available to make whatever they made, thus shutting them down. Cabelas/Bass Pro usually have warehouses full of our beloved ammo as well as primer and powders. Shortly after this fiasco began and the panic buying began these warehouses started emptying out simply because people were buying but manufacturers were not manufacturing. The orders to refill the warehouses were honored until there was nothing left in our suppliers nor the manufacturers warehouses. The shelves were bare all the way back to the manufacturers. When production started back up, which was slowly the backlog was mind boggling and still is. The products that they started turning out were the one's that were best sellers or military related. That's why 5.56/223 and 7.62/308 ammo were the first on the shelves. As time moved on one started seeing different calibers show up in limited numbers on the shelves, again related to the cartridges popularity, 270, 30-06 and 300 Win Mag. On the handgun side it was 9mm and 45ACP showing up first. .22LR was slightly behind this. Others will be coming along the way, I would guess 7mm Rem will be one of the next but those wanting 6.5 Creedmoor or any of the PRC's which were never big sellers to begin with it will take even longer. Another consideration is that there are only so many powder manufacturing plants and pretty much all of the ammo manufacturers use them then blend them to make their secret special powders. Only a few powder manufacturers now having to make powder for everyone who is screaming loudly for it. There are only so many hours in a day and only so much that can be manufactured with existing equipment. It is of course the manufacturers who get priority leaving us poor reloaders waiting in the shadows for them to kick a bit out to us. Again it is getting better as the industry heals itself. After all it is a business and they are going to do what is best which is manufacturing their best sellers first. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2424273, member: 118816"] Coyote!!! You are to be commended for this type of operation. Share the wealth so to speak. The problem is that you are the guy in a WHITE HAT when there are more bandits than you can shake a big stick wearing BLACK HATS. Cabelas never marked up whatever we had available. Prices were manufacturers suggested retail ever since this started and have remained that way. While I no longer work there, Cabelas and Bass Pro also wore White Hats. That point was driven home repeatedly. There was one (of many) online companies that was selling 9mm target ammo for $59.95 a box of 50. That [B]same exact ammo[/B] on our shelves when we had it was $12.99. The same goes for powder and primers, ours at MSRP the others at price gouging prices. The price gouging still remains in most of the Online World. As for the ammo, primers and powders that were being bought in never before number I was seeing them showing up in online auctions or sometimes notes on the bulletin boards at some gun clubs for sale at ridiculously high prices. Those who were doing this were no more than legal thieves. As for the manufacturers. I can pretty much testify to this. When Covid hit everyone panicked shutting down whole industries either individually or because their suppliers had shut down so there were no raw products available to make whatever they made, thus shutting them down. Cabelas/Bass Pro usually have warehouses full of our beloved ammo as well as primer and powders. Shortly after this fiasco began and the panic buying began these warehouses started emptying out simply because people were buying but manufacturers were not manufacturing. The orders to refill the warehouses were honored until there was nothing left in our suppliers nor the manufacturers warehouses. The shelves were bare all the way back to the manufacturers. When production started back up, which was slowly the backlog was mind boggling and still is. The products that they started turning out were the one's that were best sellers or military related. That's why 5.56/223 and 7.62/308 ammo were the first on the shelves. As time moved on one started seeing different calibers show up in limited numbers on the shelves, again related to the cartridges popularity, 270, 30-06 and 300 Win Mag. On the handgun side it was 9mm and 45ACP showing up first. .22LR was slightly behind this. Others will be coming along the way, I would guess 7mm Rem will be one of the next but those wanting 6.5 Creedmoor or any of the PRC's which were never big sellers to begin with it will take even longer. Another consideration is that there are only so many powder manufacturing plants and pretty much all of the ammo manufacturers use them then blend them to make their secret special powders. Only a few powder manufacturers now having to make powder for everyone who is screaming loudly for it. There are only so many hours in a day and only so much that can be manufactured with existing equipment. It is of course the manufacturers who get priority leaving us poor reloaders waiting in the shadows for them to kick a bit out to us. Again it is getting better as the industry heals itself. After all it is a business and they are going to do what is best which is manufacturing their best sellers first. ;) [/QUOTE]
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